Grilled Whole Sea Bream with Sweet Chili Heat Sauce

Grilled whole fish can be so tasty and simple to do, especially on the Alchemy plancha. This recipe calls for a whole seam bream (also called Orata). It is a smaller fish, so it really doesn’t take too long to cook through and get a nice, beautiful char on the outside. Once grilled, the sea bream is topped with a simple but super flavourful Sweet Chili Heat Sauce, made from a mix of plum sauce, sambal, seasoned rice wine vinegar and soy sauce. Sambal is a chili paste, made from ground chili peppers and other aromatics like garlic, ginger, shallot, sometimes shrimp paste, tamarind or other spices and herbs. The sauce has a bit of sweetness from the plum sauce and spice from the sambal and is great on a white fish like Sea Bream. The grilled fish is served with grilled pineapple salsa, a mix of grilled pineapple, diced red pepper, red onion, fresh cilantro and seasoned it with sesame oil, seasoned rice wine vinegar and chili crisp for some extra crunch and a bit of heat

Enjoy!