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Mahi grill
Y'all gather round the porch table cause we got a Gulf Coast classic fixin' to happen right here in the skillet. Fresh mahi mahi gets seared up with sweet Free
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Ingredients
- Mahi mahi fillets, those firm Gulf beauties that flake like your uncle's tall tales after two beers
- Fresh lemon, the tart yellow sunshine that'll wake up the whole skillet like a rooster at dawn
- Real butter, creamy and golden, the kind that makes everything taste like Sunday dinner at Grandma's
- White rice, fluffy long-grain goodness that soaks up all the savory juices like a sponge at a fish fry
- Bell peppers, colorful and sweet, crunchier than a possum on a tin roof
- Onion, that tear-jerkin' white bulb that builds the flavor base deeper than a holler in the hills
- Tomato, ripe and juicy, addin' that saucy Southern soul to every forkful
Directions
- First, rinse that mahi mahi under cold water and pat it drier than a sermon in July, then season it heavy with salt and pepper so it tastes like the ocean kissed it hello.
- Fire up your cast-iron skillet over medium heat till it's smokin' hot, drop in a big pat of butter and watch it melt like butter on a hot biscuit.
- Lay the mahi mahi fillets in that bubbly butter and sear em for three minutes on each side till they got a golden crust prettier than a new pickup truck.
- Pull the fish out gentle-like and set it aside on a plate, then toss in diced onion and bell peppers to sweat down till they turn soft and sweet as a porch swing nap.
- Chop up that tomato and throw it in with the veggies, lettin' everything cook till the tomato breaks down and makes a little sauce that smells like heaven's back porch.
- Meanwhile, cook your white rice in a separate pot till it's fluffy and perfect, then fluff it with a fork like you're combing a prize coonhound.
- Slide the mahi mahi back into the skillet with the veggies, squeeze in the juice of that whole lemon and add another knob of butter for extra richness.
- Spoon the cooked rice right into the skillet and stir everything together so every grain gets coated in that lemon-butter magic.
- Let the whole mess simmer for five more minutes so the flavors marry up tighter than cousins at a family reunion.
- Kill the heat, give it one last stir, and holler for the family cause supper's hotter than a July sidewalk and twice as satisfyin'.
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