Roasted Red Snapper-Italian Style!
**Roasted Red Snapper – Italian Style!** This roasted skinless red snapper recipe is low in cholesterol and fat, yet rich in flavor. It’s a rustic Italian dish that is easy to prepare and melts in your mouth with every bite. This delicious recipe is effortless to make and never disappoints!
Our Roasted Red Snapper Recipe
Our recipe for the Roasted Red Snapper is very straightforward. It’s also a rustic way of cooking the fish. But it allows the fish to become moist, juicy, and exquisite in every bite.
Red Snapper is a naturally sweet fish, and because it is, this fish doesn’t require a lot of condiments or ingredients when roasting. This recipe only requires a few simple ingredients to enhance its flavor – and the Italian style!
The lemon juice and white wine create a flavorful and juicy fish. The fresh sprigs of rosemary, along with a few more seasonings, give this seafood dish its aromatic flavors.
What is Red Snapper?
Red Snapper comes from warm waters, and primarily from the Gulf of Mexico. It’s a redfish with red gills and can be found sold in every state. It’s white, meaty, with a delicate texture but firm, and has a mild, sweet flavor.
Red snappers are versatile and can be quickly cooked: sautéed, fried, poached, broiled, baked, and roasted! But this recipe, roasted? Is exceptional!
When Shopping for Red Snapper:
When shopping for the red snapper at the fish market, it is available in many forms. So don’t be afraid to ask and select your preference:
- Whole: means you take the whole fish, and can scale it for you.
- Steak: means it’s ready to cook, a crosscut slice 1/2 to 1-inch thick, and also clean guts, head, and tail removed.
- Fillet: means also it’s ready to cook, and it’s a boneless piece cut from the side and away from the backbone, skinned, and completely cleaned.
For this recipe, I prefer my red snapper to be in the form of a fillet. With these fillets, the prep work is minimal.
What to Look for When Buying Red Snapper:
There are 3 things you should remember when buying red snapper: always look at the eyes, color, and gills. But, first let me explain:
- On a whole fish: always look for bright and clear eyes, bright-colored gills, and very firm skin.
- For already filleted: always look for bright flesh color, no discoloration, or a slimy surface.
- Then ask to smell the fish! The fish has to smell fresh – like the sea, and not fishy. So, don’t be afraid to ask your fishmonger or the person behind the counter if you can smell the fish.
What Ingredients Will You Need?
When it comes to roasting fish, like a red snapper in the oven, we prefer using only good-quality ingredients, like extra virgin olive oil, fresh rosemary, Herbs de Provence, garlic powder, lemon juice, and wine.
How to Make Roasted Red Snapper-Italian Style?
If this is your first time, no worries, there’s nothing to it except seasoning the dish, adding the other ingredients, and roasting. Plus, our full recipe card is located at the bottom. But first, let’s run through these three easy steps to roasting this fish.
1. First, you will only need to season the fillets. Scatter over the fish the seasonings and fresh herbs.
2. Drizzle with extra virgin olive oil, lemon juice, and white wine.
3. Next, roast in the oven for a few minutes, until the fish flakes off easily with a fork. Then it’s ready to serve!
Keep in mind, these fillets of red snapper will roast quickly, especially if they are thinly cut (like mine), so keep an eye on them while roasting.
Recipe Tips for Success
- This recipe serves two to four. But you can easily double this recipe for more servings.
- Just before I served it, I added a squeeze of lemon juice on top. This will give the fish more flavor and keep it juicy.
- Wrap your baking pan with aluminum foil for easy cleanup!
- Most Italian seafood dishes are very simple and always flavorful. You don’t need a lot of spices to make seafood flavorful.
- Fresh herbs are always best and great with seafood recipes, but if you need to use dried ones, go ahead – they work well too.
- Also, you can prep ahead and roast when you’re ready for dinner.
- Keep in mind, seafood leftovers only stay fresh for up to 2 days. After that, toss it and make it again in the future.
What Sides to Serve It With?
There are so many options for sides to serve with our red snapper and round out the meal. Choose any of these recipes or ideas to serve this red snapper recipe with and you’ll have one delicious meal!
- Mom’s Best Mashed Potato Pie
- Roasted Broccoli and Cauliflower with Wine & Cheese
- Easy Italian Tomato Salad – marinated!
- Creamy Potato and Zucchini Gratin
- Asparagus Au Gratin – lightened!
- Broccoli and Cheese Casserole
An Easy Dinner
A delicious and easy dinner. This recipe for roasted red snapper cooks up fast! And, they are ready to serve in less than 20 minutes. It is SO good, this recipe for roasted red snapper Italian-style will become a definite keeper! Try it.
ENJOY!
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Roasted Red Snapper Italian Style!
This roasted red snapper Italian style is a rustic dish that is easy to make and it melts in your mouth with every bite! A wonderful recipe that is delicious, effortless, and never disappoints!
Ingredients
- 1 pound (16-ounces) red snapper fillet
- sea salt and fresh cracked black pepper
- 2 Tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
- 1/4 tsp. garlic powder (or 1 garlic clove crushed)
- 1/4 tsp. Herbs de Provence
- 2 to 4 sprigs of fresh rosemary
- 1 large lemon - cut in half -divided
- 3/4 cup white wine
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to Roast at 400 degrees F. Cover your baking pan with a sheet of aluminum foil.
- Season the red snapper fillet with sea salt and black pepper. Then lay the fish skin side down.
- Drizzle olive oil over the snapper. Then squeeze 1/2 of a lemon over the fish. Reserve the other half of the lemon for later.
- Scatter on top of the fish with garlic powder, fresh rosemary, and Herbs de Provence.
- Set it aside to sit for a few minutes to marinate the fish, or until the oven is ready.
- Place the filets of red snapper ( uncovered) on the center rack.
- Roast for 10 minutes.
- Then open the oven, and slowly pour the white wine over the snapper. Close the oven and continue to roast for an additional 5 to 6 minutes. Fish is done when meat is opaque and flakes easily with a fork.
- Remove and squeeze the other half of the lemon juice on top.
- Transfer to a warm serving dish and pour the remaining juices from the pan onto the red snapper. Or serve directly from the pan (more casual and rustic). Serve immediately.
- Serves 2 to 4
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 2 to 4 servings Serving Size: 1 serving (4-ounces)Amount Per Serving: Calories: 242Total Fat: 9gSaturated Fat: 1.4gCholesterol: 53mgCarbohydrates: 1.3gFiber: 0gSugar: .4gProtein: 29.9g
Happy and Healthy Cooking 🙂
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xo Anna and Liz
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We love seafood and just made your red snapper recipe tonight and it turned out fantastic! I only added some oregano because we love oregano.
That’s awesome! Adding other herbs is always a plus when it comes to roasting fish, and thank you so much for leaving a comment. Have a great week.
Is this good for meal prep to warm up?
Hi Gabby, yes you can prep it, refrigerate it and then bake it. And can reheat it as well. Or prep, bake and reheat it when you want to serve it later. I hope this helps! 🙂
This looks so delicious! We like to eat fish at least once a week and we want it to be flavorful, and this recipe sounds great!
Thank you Susan! Have a great weekend! 🙂
i’m always looking for good fish recipes, so thank you. You can hardly go wrong with lemon and white wine – such a nice combination. And I happen to LOVE herbes de Provence.
Thanks Jeff! We love herbs de Provence as well and try to incorporate them in many recipes as possible. Enjoy this recipe!
i love simple baked fish – so delicious. i do it with salmon, baked in the oven with just some olive oil and lemon juice and herbs. so easy and fabulous. cheers, sherry
Thank you Sherry! We love salmon as well and need to get more recipes on the blog for them! Thanks for stopping by! 🙂
Hi! This looks Amazingly simple and delicious – perfect Spring dinner.
Thank you Balvinder! And welcome to our blog, it’s so nice to meet you! Have a great day! 🙂
Thank you Balvinder! Have a great weekend! 🙂
I agree with you about Italian seafood dishes being very simple, they let the flavor of the seafood be the star. Yours is cooked just with way I like it.
Oh thank you Karen! We love seafood and especially whole fish. Hope you’ll try this recipe! Thanks for stopping by!