Grilled shark!

[Luis]

Hey guys!

This is a great recipe for "cazon" (a tasty mexican shark!), may be great for mako steaks, snapper (skin on please) and almost any other white flesh fish. Is a very simple one, just marinate the fish and grill it... Much better if using a charcoal or wood grill!!!

4-5 Pounds fish steaks or fillets or a whole snapper.
1 cup minced herbs (Use your favourites, I use parsley, and chives, but if you like basil, tarragon, mint, cilantro, or chervil feel free)
1 cup chardonnay white wine.
1 cup extra virgin olive oil.
1 Tablespoon minced garlic.
1 tablespoon grated lime or lemon zest (I prefer lime, but lemon is ok too)
1 tablespoon minced serrano chili pepper or red pepper flakes. (Optional, you dont like spicy flavors, dont use it)
1 tablespoon crushed black peppercorns.

Coarse sea salt to taste
2- 3 limes (The juice)

Put the fish in a ziplock bag with the oil, herbs, wine, garlic, lime zest, chili pepper and peppercorns. Let it marinate from 3 to 24 hours. Take it out of the bag, season it with the salt on both sides and grill it. While grilling it, just squezze the lime on it and enjoy it.

Chefs tip... If on a date, drink the chardonnay that you didn't use for marination and tell to the girl that you bought the fish from an organic market!
If with friends, nothing beats cold beer, and tell the gory details from the catch!

Bon apettit!

 

[feign]

I agree - for serious grilling use hardwood or charcoal...thanks for the recipe will give it a try.

Lee

 

[seaman]

Hey budd, do you know any recipes for yelowtail, or other jacks, i dont like the flavor that much, but maybe there is some way to improve th taste anyway .. thanks!

 

[mundial]

che flaco como andas rofl

great recipe i think it will be good for rays also!
how can somebody eat that without hot spices?? its great
barbaro

che !!
gracias por todo

 

[Freediver81]

I"m suprised nobody is attacking this recipe because of the shark matter!

Said

 

[seaman]

I don`t see no points about a shark is any better than other fish, when it comes to eat . We have the antropocentric belief that we can decide that a creature is more desirable to kill .. to make differences among things, we stand as subjects before the world and its creatures that have suddenly became to us objects of scientific knowledge and technical exploitation ... we suddenly feel that we have the power and positively decide of the true nature of right or wrong thus justify our beliefs . To fish Sharks in Mexico is a traditional thing, far beyond greenpeacers, is deepely rooted in our gastronomic and coastal culture, we respect (fear them) and enjoy them just as well as any other creature in the deep blue ...
respectfully...

regards

 

[DeepThought]

Said, apparently the forum does have a power to change views, I guess people are more open-minded today.

I still think that the shark massacre that happened last spring here was horrible though, it was ilegal and unconservational. Doesn't meant that people should avoid eating sharks at all costs though.

 

[seaman]

Yes man, i know, The shark finning fisheries are destroying what we love the must, it use to be more fish in the `hot spots`along with the sharks, and the practical evidence is loudly saying: ^no sharks- no fish^as a deadly and sad equation :waterwork

I am agree, so if we are rational beings, lets rationalize our fishing activities ...

 

[Oldsarge]

It's all a question about sustainability. Do the sharks that we want to eat reproduce fast enough for us to take a share. Until I see some good evidence that they do, I'm not eating shark. I feel the same way about billfish. Now if commercially fishing shark is banned, then we who (admittedly) like the taste are in the clear because no spearfishing can have that much affect on the numbers. Unfortunately, the gillnetters and longliners are still taking too many and wasting most of it.

 

[seaman]

Amen, that's the core of the issue ...

 

[mundial]

Said, apparently the forum does have a power to change views, I guess people are more open-minded today.

I still think that the shark massacre that happened last spring here was horrible though, it was ilegal and unconservational. Doesn't meant that people should avoid eating sharks at all costs though.

i have to say that is was really bad how people fish the 1 meter long sharks
in handreds
no law no police nothing !!!!
but people that eat sharks and dont hunt for sport should know the risk
of fishing to many sharks !!
in israel it is illegal but seems that no one care !
anyway i like to know (if someone made it ) how is the receipe

 

[ambertiger]

I think it is pathetic that someone posts a recipe for grilled shark and then another person defends this by saying it is a 'tradition' to kill sharks. I live in Taiwan. There are now no sharks in coastal offshore waters where they were once plentiful. The same with Puffer fish, until Japanese restaurants took off in popularity. Fishermen here defend also defend their practice as 'traditional' they claim that sharks are getting more crafty and managing to avoid their hooks! It is a fact that approximately 100 million sharks are killed world wide every year. This is unsubstainable. Sharks play a vital part in ocean ecology and without them the oceans and ourselves will be in serious trouble. Its about time that all you great 'white', 'brown', 'black' and 'yellow', hunters gave the sharks and rays a break. If you absolutely must get your kicks from spearing defenseless fish try looking up which fish it is possible to harvest substainably, Sharks ain't one of them.

 

[seaman]

That`s exactly what we are longing for man, sustainability. What i find pathetic the most is `someone`going havoc without actually READING the posts in a non partial way. You have to widen your point of view man, the japanese fisheries is something. Skiff fisherman doing a living of sea is another issue. I will tell the local fisherman who lives `traditionaly`of a couple of sharks daily, that they must to stop, because you are so concerned about the well being of sharks :duh we have to rationalize, that is the bottomline. An office sitting, internet based executive in Taiwan finding an entire and foreign culture `pathetic`is kind of etnocentric, don`t you think?

p.s. etnocentrism is the strong believe that our values and norm system is the best and the one and only. I say protect the sharks in a way that we could always count with that precious resource ...

respectfully

 

[Alison]

Come on guy's, this is a recipe forum! I was going to post my recipe for "Char Broiled Mother in Law" can you imagine the upset that would cause?
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