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1 Whole grouper fillet
259 g Grouper
9 ounce Grouper; approximately

"Quick" is the operative word: Most of the recipes for grouper take 45
minutes or less to prepare.

Grouper can be grilled, sauteed, fried, stirfried, broiled, roasted or
baked, says the author. It's a whitefleshed fish, mild, moist and slightly
sweet just the kind of nottoofishy fish that can win over people who
shy away from more strongly flavored types.

Grouper is found in temperate waters from the MidAtlantic through the Gulf
of Mexico. Lowcountry fishermen have been catching grouper offshore
recently, but you can find it on land, too if not in your grocery store,
then at a seafood shop.

Revsin says good grouper will have firm, somewhat satiny flesh, translucent
white to pale pink color, and with "a clean, ocean aroma." Avoid fish with
flesh that's bruised, discoloring, soft or mushy, as well as fish that
smells like ammonia, she says.

The thickness of the fillets is important: They should be no more than 3/4
inch to 1 inch thick, says Revsin. When she was a restaurant chef in New
York, she often got fillets that were more than 1 inch thick, and she
noticed then that the edges curled up as they cooked.

"If you see fillets that are more than Three fourths inch in thickness, they've been
cut from a very large fish, and when cooked they usually become coarse and
tough," she says. "They may be fine for a slowbraised fish dinner, but
they'll turn on you if you approach them with shortcooking methods."

Sauteed, grilled or quickly broiled, thick fillets can turn into gnarled,
twisted shapes, says Revsin. "That satisfying chewiness, which I like,
turns into a rubberiness, which I don't like," she says.

*Chef Leslie Revsin, from Bronxville, NY. Worked restaurants in New York.
Latest book has recipes for grouper and all her other fish favorites,
"Great Fish, Quick" (Doubleday, $27.50).

* Revsin was the first female chef at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York
City. She opened her own place, Restaurant Leslie, in 1977, and since then
has served as executive chef at the Bridge Cafe, One Fifth Avenue and
Argenteuil in New York City. She also has been a chef at the Inn at Pound
Ridge in Westchester, N.Y.

see: Broiled Grouper With Grain MustardPineapple Vinaigrette; Grilled
Grouper With Ancho Chile Butter; Sauteed Grouper With Spicy Black Beans;
Sauteed Grouper With Tropical Fruit Salsa.

Reviewed by Ann Burger http://www.charleston.net on May 6, 1998; Edited
by Hanneman; converted by MC_Buster.

Recipe by: Book Review by ANN BURGER, 05/06/98

Posted to MCRecipe Digest by Kitpath phannema@wizard.ucr.edu on May 06,
1998