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Grilled fish with seafood sauce
4.9 from 345 votes

Grilled fish with seafood sauce

Grilled fish fillets paired with a garlic, white wine seafood sauce featuring shrimp, calamari, and bay scallops create a layered seafood dish. The sauce includes butter, onion, garlic, cream, and fresh parsley, offering richness that complements the subtly charred fish. Side dish suggestions reflect a varied, balanced meal.

Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
15 mins
Total Time
30 mins
Servings: 4 - 6
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: South American, International, Ecuadorian

Ingredients

  • 2 lbs fish fillet can use cod, rockfish, halibut, mahi mahi, or your choice of fresh fish - cut into 4-6 fillets
  • 1/2 tablespoon neutral cooking oil generic cooking oil
  • ½ lb Shrimp peeled and deveined, raw
  • ½ lb calamari cut in small pieces
  • ½ lb bay scallops small
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 2 tablespoons white onion finely diced
  • 6 garlic minced, cloves
  • ¼ cup white wine
  • ½ cup cream
  • 1 to 2 tablespoons parsley finely chopped, to sprinkle on top when serving
  • salt
  • black pepper
Ideas for side dishes (choose your favorites):
  • rice Latin style
  • Fried green plantains
  • butter
  • parsley
  • fingerling potatoes
  • asparagus steamed or grilled
  • onion for curtido salad
  • tomato for curtido salad
  • lime slices
  • aji hot sauce

Instructions

To grill the fish:
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  1. Season the fish with the oil, salt and pepper and pre-heat the grill.
  2. If you are using an indoor panini style grill, then you can grill the fish quickly right as the sauce is finishing as they should both be served warm. If you are using a regular outdoor grill you can do grill the fish before preparing the seafood sauce - and keep the fish on a warm plate until ready to serve.
  3. To grill the fish on the outdoor grill, heat it to a high temperature (~400F), grill the fish on each side for about 5 minutes. The exact time will depend on the thickness of the fish fillets and the grill. Be careful to not overcook the fish as it will dry out.
  4. To grill the fish on the electric indoor grill it will take just 3-4 minutes, set it to high heat and use both the lower and upper grill racks to press down on the fillets.
To prepare the seafood in a garlic white wine sauce:
  1. Melt the butter in a large saucepan on medium heat, add the minced garlic and onion, cook for about 2 minutes.
  2. Stir in the shrimp and cook for 1 minute.
  3. Add the white wine and increase the heat, cook for another minute
  4. Add the cream and cook until the shrimp are almost done.
  5. Add the calamari and scallops, cook for 1-2 minutes at the most and remove from heat.
  6. Serve the sauce on the side or on top of the grilled fish, sprinkle with chopped parsley.
  7. Serve with garnished with a slice of lime, plus your choice of side dishes: fried green plantains, or potatoes, or steamed or grilled vegetables, plus rice, and/or bread to soak up any leftover sauce.