My girls and I love fish, especially if it’s pan fried BUT I hate frying fish. I suck at frying fish and can never fry a fish perfectly. This makes me miss Dyah, our former helper more. She used to help us fry fish for dinner almost every day. These days, I have been using the oven a lot to grill meat and fish. That’s because I hate to fry them using the wok or non-stick pan. I hate the oil splatters. I normally grill salmon and mackerel but yesterday, I tried grilling black pomfret fish for the first time. And it turned out fishylicious!
Here’s my oven grilled black promfret fish with lots of chopped garlic, oregano and parsley herbs, ground black pepper, oil, garlic salt, sea salt and a few dashes of Lea & Perrin sauce. All the ingredients were slathered on both sides of the fish.
Preparation time : 10 mintues
Grilling time in oven : 25 minutes (uncovered on a greased baking paper laid out on a baking tray. I used Knife peanut and sesame seed oil)
The girls prefer oven grilled fish over pan-fried fish as the meat of oven grilled fish is tender and juicy vs rough and dry meat if pan-fried. Best of all, there ain’t a single drop of oil splatter, except that I have to lightly wipe the oven after use. I use Sol-U-Mel from Melaleuca (which is non-toxic) to wipe the inside of the oven to remove the fish odor.
I’m really happy with the taste and texture of this grilled black pomfret fish 😀  Busy mums and dads who want to dish out sweat-free delish homecooked food for your little ones in a jiffy, do give this a try too!
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If you didnt say it’s oven-baked, I would think it’s fried fish too.. Wow, you just gave me an idea.. I will use the oven next time.. Just chuck everything into the oven and press start..
Good idea.. I use the oven a lot, but never thought of “frying” fish in it..
The garlic won’t burn when you are grilling the fish?
Louiz, the garlic didn’t really get burn, well a little get burnt – those at the side. After 15 minutes grilling the fish one side, I flipped it over. I put garlic on both sides of the fish. By flipping the fish, the garlic on top would now be at the bottom and the bottom ones on top. Thus, they didn’t really get burnt 🙂 The grilled garlic smelled really awesome when it’s cooking in the oven!
I love pomfret and I love garlic so I think I’m going to love this alot!
Well done, Shireen! Think I shall try grilling fish instead of pan-frying it in future.
Thanks mum! Yes do ask papa to try this. Less work for him wokking and sweating. Just put it in the oven and let the oven do the job 🙂
Shireen just wonder where to buy Sol-U-Mel from Melaleuca?
Hi Shirley, I have emailed you. Pls check.
thanks for the idea … I normally pan fried fish .. like you said, all the oil splatter, hate it .. will definitely try oven baked… 🙂
Thank you Shireen!
Thanks for the recipe… will definitely try this. I miss my Indo maid’s cooking too esp her fish dishes, but this filipino fries fish with batter quite well. How much oil did you have to put again?