Baked Pompano

This pompano recipe is stuffed with lime and baked whole in an Asian-inspired dish seasoned with soy sauce, rice wine, and plenty of fresh ginger.

• Preparation Time: 25 mins
• Cooking Time: 40 mins
• Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins
• Calories: 533 Calories

Ingredients

• salt and ground black pepper to taste
• 1 cup soy sauce
• 2 teaspoons fish sauce
• 5 tablespoons olive oil, divided
• 1 lime, halved
• 1 shallot, diced
• 2 teaspoons hoisin sauce
• 2 teaspoons oyster sauce
• 1 (2 inch) piece peeled fresh ginger, diced
• 1 (1 1/2) pound whole pompano fish, gutted and cleaned
• 1 teaspoon dried dill, or to taste
• 2 cups napa cabbage leaves, or as needed
• 0.5 cup rice cooking wine

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).

Step 2

Whisk soy sauce, rice wine, 1 tablespoon olive oil, hoisin sauce, fish sauce, oyster sauce, and juice of 1/2 the lime together in a bowl.

Step 3

Heat 3 tablespoons olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir shallot and ginger until starting to brown, about 2 minutes. Pour in soy sauce mixture; simmer until slightly thickened, 5 to 10 minutes.

Step 4

Score both sides of the pompano in a crosshatch pattern. Pat dry with a paper towel. Season both sides and inside of the pompano with dill, salt, and pepper. Slice remaining 1/2 of the lime and arrange slices inside. Drizzle remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil over pompano; rub over both sides.

Step 5

Bake pompano in the preheated oven until fragrant, about 20 minutes. Remove aluminum foil; continue baking until pompano flakes easily with a fork, about 10 minutes more.

Step 6

Peel back skin and lift pompano flesh off the bones using a fork. Transfer to a serving plate.

Step 7

Layer cabbage leaves in the bottom of a large baking dish; place pompano on top. Pour soy sauce mixture over pompano. Cover baking dish with aluminum foil. Let marinate as the oven preheats.