Citrus-Marinated Halibut

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This is decidedly a hot-weather dish: cooked connected the grill, airy and cleanable successful spirit and beauteous connected the plate. A speedy cucumber-orange relish serves arsenic the sauce. The food is marinated for conscionable 20 minutes and past grilled; immoderate longer and the acerb successful the marinade volition commencement to "cook" the fish, ceviche style.

This is besides 1 of those dishes that you tin service to a diet-challenged audience. It's debased successful fat, and it's gluten-, dairy- and meat-free. Best of all, nary of this was by design. It's not wellness food; it's conscionable a healthful benignant of cooking.

Halibut is utilized here, but immoderate firm-fleshed food tin beryllium substituted. The cooking method is adjacent gentle capable for bladed fillets.

The relish and condiment for the food tin beryllium prepared hours successful advance.

From columnist Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Ingredients

For the relish

1 mean orange
1 tiny (4 ounces) seedless cucumber, chopped into 1/4-inch dice
Five to 10 mint leaves, finely chopped (1 oregon 2 tablespoons)
1 tablespoonful pome cider vinegar
1/8 spoon salt
1/2 spoon sugar
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper

For the fish

Juice and finely grated zest of 1 orange
Juice and finely grated zest of 1 lime
1 spoon olive oil
1/8 spoon salt
2 6-ounce halibut fillets
1 mean orange, chopped into bladed rounds (seeds removed), for garnish

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
274
Fat
4 g
Saturated Fat
1 g
Carbohydrates
21 g
Sodium
386 mg
Cholesterol
54 mg
Protein
37 g
Fiber
4 g
Sugar
14 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From columnist Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Tested by Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Published March 13, 2026