• Mike van de Elzen: Snapper with panzanella salad

  • Jan 26 2025
  • Length: 6 mins
  • Podcast

Mike van de Elzen: Snapper with panzanella salad

  • Summary

  • Crispy snapper with panzanella salad

    Cook time: 5 minutes

    Prep time: 10 minutes

    Serves: 4

    4-6 fillets of skin on snapper

    Sunflower oil

    Flaky sea salt

    Panzanella

    1/2 ciabatta loaf

    Additional olive oil

    Flaky sea salt

    3 tbsp olive oil

    3 tbsp red wine vinegar

    1 tsp brown sugar

    Salt, to taste

    1 tsp Dijion mustard

    Pepper, to taste

    8 small tomatoes, quartered

    1/2 cup kalamata olives

    1 cup char grilled peppers, sliced

    Handful of Italian parsley, chopped

    Tear the ciabatta loaf into large irregular pieces, drizzle with a little olive oil and salt. Preheat your cast iron pan before frying the bread until golden and crispy. It needs to be crispy but still somewhat chewy.

    In a large bowl whisk together the olive oil, red wine vinegar, sugar and a little salt and pepper to taste.

    Preheat a cast iron pan.

    Portion your snapper into usable pieces, coat well with oil and season with salt.

    Place the snapper into the clean hot pan skin side down and firmly press down the flesh for 5 seconds, preventing the fillet from curling. Continue to cook on high until the fillet has almost turn completely white. Flip over for the a final few seconds.

    Once ready to serve, add in the bread, tomatoes, olives, peppers and parsley.

    Spoon over the dressing to wet the crispy bread and serve as serve as possible onto platters with the crispy snapper.

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