Life All Travel Destinations Entertaining Food All Chefs Recipes Restaurants Wine Matching Wine All Wine 101 Wine News Wine Regions Wine Varietals Home > Selector Magazine > Food > Snapper fillets with almond and parsley crust Food Snapper fillets with almond and parsley crust Preparation time Cooking time Serves 4 INGREDIENTS ¼ cup flat leaf parsley, finely chopped ¼ cup green spring onion, finely chopped ¼ cup almonds, skin on and finely chopped 1 clove garlic, minced 1 tbsp capers, rinsed ½ cup fresh breadcrumbs 1 egg white 4 x 180g snapper fillets Spray vegetable oil 4 lemon wedges Potato salad & garlic dressing 400g Kipfler potatoes Spray olive oil 3 green spring onions, white only and finely sliced 2 hard boiled eggs, roughly chopped 2 tbsp crisp bacon pieces 3 tbsp mint, roughly chopped 2–3 cloves garlic, poached for 5 minutes ½ cup good mayonnaise ¼ cup cider vinegar 1 tsp dried mustard ½ tsp ground black pepper METHOD Preheat oven to 180ºC or 160ºC fan forced. Mix parsley, spring onions, almonds, garlic, capers and breadcrumbs; whisk egg white, tip half into crust mixture and combine well. Pat fish dry with paper towel and brush with remaining egg white. Sit fish on oil sprayed baking tray. Spoon and pat a layer of parsley mix onto each fillet. Cook in oven for 8–10 minutes or until cooked – this depends on fish thickness. Serve with lemon wedge to one side and potato salad with garlic dressing. Potato salad & garlic dressing Cut potatoes on diagonal into bite sized pieces. Boil in salted water for 5 minutes – drain and let cool. When cool, spray with oil and either pan fry or oven roast until browned and cooked through. Tip potatoes into large mixing bowl – add spring onions, eggs, bacon and mint. Mash garlic – whisk in mayonnaise, vinegar, mustard and ground black pepper to taste and pour over hot potato mixture. Toss and leave to cool. Refrigerate to use when needed. Food Preparation time Cooking time Serves 4 SHARE