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Seafood-Stuffed Red Snapper
Grill: 20 mins
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
- 3/4 cup soft bread crumbs
- 1 tablespoon butter or margarine
- 1/4 cup chopped green onions
- 1/4 cup chopped celery
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1/4 pound fresh or frozen shrimp, peeled, deveined, cooked and coarsely chopped
- 1/4 pound fresh or frozen crabmeat or scallops, cooked and coarsely chopped
- 1 tablespoon snipped fresh parsley
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 1 1/2 pounds red snapper fillets or fish fillets, cut into 4 to 6 equal portions
Directions
1. For stuffing, melt the 2 tablespoons butter or margarine in a skillet. Add bread crumbs. Cook and stir over medium-high heat until bread crumbs are browned. Remove bread crumbs to a large bowl.
2. Melt the 1 tablespoon butter or margarine in the skillet. Add green onions, celery, and garlic. Cook over medium-high heat until tender. Add mixture to bread crumbs in bowl.
3. Add shrimp, crabmeat or scallops, parsley, salt, and pepper to bowl. Toss gently.
4. Cut foil to form a double-thickness 18x12-inch rectangle. Lay fish fillets on the double thickness of foil. Mound stuffing on top of the fillets.
5. Fold up edges of foil to form a tray. In a covered grill, arrange preheated coals at either side of the grill. Test for medium heat above the center of the grill.* Place the fish in foil in center of grill rack. Lower grill hood and grill for 20 to 25 minutes or just until the fish flakes easily. Makes 4 to 6 servings.
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Note:
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To test for medium heat, you should be able to hold your hand at the height of the food for 4 seconds before you have to pull away.
