Trinidad Hot Baked Fish (recipe)
Filed Under dairy, fish | Posted on January 20, 2007
When I originally found this recipe on Peppers.com I was instantly wary. You see I keep stumbling across recipes that begin with the word Trinidad or Caribbean that then go on to have little resemblance either through ingredients or methodology to what I’m familiar with. So when I clicked on this recipe titled ‘Trinidad Hot Baked Fish’ I was pleasantly surprised to see that it passed the very first ‘authenticity test’ to which it was posed.
So what was that test?
Well once a recipe has fish or chicken in it, if it’s presuming to be Trinidadian I instantly expect to see that the first treatment the flesh will be subjected to is a treatment of lime or vinegar. And there it was. The squeezing of the lime. This was the real deal! I could move on 
This dish was very simple and economical, and even better it pleased the palates of my parents who have very divergent benchmarks of appreciation. 
I made very few changes besides substituting cheddar cheese for the Parmesan (much more affordable, and infinitely more ‘Trini’), and I also adjusted the baking times because the ones on the site weren’t working for me.
Trinidad Hot Baked Fish
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Adapted from a recipe on Peppers.com
Ingredients:
2 lbs. favorite fish fillets
1/4 cup Trinidad Pepper Sauce
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/2 cup soft butter
1/2 cup cheddar cheese, shredded
1 lime
Directions:
1. Place rack in center of oven. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
2. Blend all ingredients, except fish and lime, together.
3. Place in refrigerator.
4. Butter bottom of baking dish.
5. Place fish fillets in baking dish.
6. Squeeze lime juice over fish.
7. Salt, pepper, and sprinkle fish with your favorite dry spice mix (mine is ras-al-hanout, maggi fish seasoning would be good too!).
8. Broil fish for 7-10 minutes depending on thickness.
9. Pull fish out of oven and place Pepper Sauce mixture over fish.
10. Broil 3-5 minutes or until lightly browned!
Serves 6 to 8
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Oh! That looks good!
why thank you devon
! I liked your White Album analogy btw 
mayo + butter + cheese =
looks very good, sarina. what did you use? tilapia?
lolziez
No, I have never seen this infamous tilapia 
… i used my ghetto salmon fillets 
Tilapia is good Nikki but its great that you use Salmon (I think Salmon you have to be so careful with so it doesn’t dry out, and you know what?
Cheddar tastes much better than Parmesan in my book!
lolz, parmesan have its time and place, but i’m trini, and cheddar is my first choice in most recipes… unless it calls for mozarella or gouda, then i gotta go with those, or a blue cheese.. but i digress… cheddar is boss!
why you didn’t start this as a reply to my comment to bureka?
mash up the threads baybee 
yep, love my fish with lime and vinegar. This dish looks amazingly scrumptious!
yes yes
gotta have lime and/or vinegar 
it’s just suspect without those things 
Thanks! it came out good 
and very simple 
you NEED to find it. i can’t believe you’ve never had it!! that’s criminal. get some NOW!! you’re surrounded by fish, LOL.
hehe … i am scared of fishmongers, dunno why
and the only fish i trust that is affordable in the supermarket are the ghetto fillets 
i dont really eat bake fish
but it’s fillets so maybe…hmmm
what youse eat girl?
chicken
lamb (but picky)
fry fish (as in fish and chips)
maybe grouper
flying fish
salt fish
hmmm