Red Snapper With Tomato-Cumin Sauce

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Course : Fish
From: HungryMonster.com
Serves: 4
 

Ingredients:

-----sauce-----
1 1/2 teaspoons cumin seed
2 1/4 cups chopped tomatoes
1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
3 cloves garlic -- crushed
1 teaspoon salt
-----fish-----
4 fillets red snapper fillets -- (2 lbs)
2 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper
2 tablespoons all purpose flour
 

Preparation:

Sauce: Scatter cumin seed in a small dry skillet. Toast seed over high heat 1 to 3 minutes until they begin to turn brown and smoke slightly. Add remaining sauce ingredients except salt and parsley. Simmer 10 minutes. Taste and season with salt. Stir in parsley. Remove from heat and set aside. Fish: Sprinkle fish with salt and pepper. Dust with flour. Heat butter and oil in another skillet over high heat. Fry fish, turning only once, until lightly browned on both sides. Immediately coat both sides of fish with sauce. Serve surrounded with remaining sauce. *Sea Bass can be substituted for Red Snapper.