Thai style whole fish

I made this recipe up as I went along, so no defined quantities for most of the ingredients.

1 whole fish
3 stalks lemon grass
garlic
ginger
2 small red chillis
fish sauce
soy sauce
olive oil
brown sugar ( use palm if you've got it )
coriander
thai basil
2 limes
1 lemon

Into a bowl add 1/3 of the corander leaves chopped, a crushed clove of garlic, a diced deseeded chilli, about a teaspoon of chopped ginger and half a stalk of lemongross crushed and diced. Add the sugar, a splash of fish sauce, a good quantity each of soy and olive oil and the juice of a lime. Spoon about a third of this over your fish and leave to marinade for an hour.

After marinating get a large sheet of foil and double it over itself. Slice the remaining lime, and put a couple of pieces on the foil, crush a lemongrass stalk and 3 cloves of garlic onto the foil as well, add some of the basil and coriander. Place the fish on top of the herbs, and stuff a couple of slices of lime inside it's cavity. Then do the same on top of the fish as is under it. Splash some more of the marinade on top.

Wrap the foil tightly and place on a BBQ grill for about 5 minutes either side. Turn the BBQ off and leave for another 5-10 minutes until cooked through. Remove the fish carefully from the foil onto a plate. Put lemon quarters around the fish.

I served it with a salad of rocket, yellow capsicum, cucumber and cherry tomatoes dressed with the left over marinade.

 

Looks delish. One thing that I'll often do (that admittedly is not the most healthy thing in the world) is heat up some peanut oil in a pan till smoking and then pour a little of it over the skin of the fish to crisp it up once it's come out've the foil.