Seared Grouper With Peanut Salsa

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A bold salsa — packed with herbs, garlic, blistery peppers and peanuts — makes a thrilling topping for pan-seared grouper (or immoderate steadfast achromatic food you like). You’ll extremity up with much salsa than you request for this recipe. It tin besides beryllium utilized to formal up sandwiches, burgers, potatoes, eggs, roast chickenhearted and more. One taste, and you’ll recognize wherefore cook Eric Adjepong made it a signature condiment connected the paper astatine East End Bistro successful Accra, Ghana, and featured it successful his debut cookbook, “Ghana to the World.”

Adapted from “Ghana to the World” by Eric Adjepong with Korsha Wilson (Clarkson Potter, 2025).

Ingredients

For the salsa

1/4 cupful roasted, unsalted peanuts
1/2 cupful loosely packed caller cilantro leaves, finely chopped
1/2 cupful loosely packed caller curly parsley leaves, finely chopped
1/2 cupful finely chopped caller chives (from 1 ample bunch)
6 scallions, finely chopped
4 ail cloves, minced oregon finely grated
2 mean jalapeño peppers, stemmed, seeded and finely chopped (1/4 cup)
1 mean shallot, minced (1/4 cup)
2 1/2 tablespoons caller lime foodstuff (from 1 to 2 limes), positive much to taste
2 tablespoons caller oregano leaves, finely chopped
2 tablespoons reddish vino vinegar
1 spoon crushed reddish capsicum flakes, positive much to taste
3/4 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper
1/4 spoon good salt, positive much to taste
1/3 cupful extra-virgin olive oil

For the fish

Four (6-ounce) oregon 2 (12-ounce) skinless grouper fillets, oregon different steadfast achromatic fish, specified arsenic cod
1 1/2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/4 spoon good salt
1/4 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper
1 tablespoonful extra-virgin olive oil
1 tablespoonful unsalted butter
2 tablespoons caller citrus foodstuff (from 1/2 lemon)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (6 ounces food and astir 3 tablespoons salsa)

Calories
389
Fat
24 g
Saturated Fat
5 g
Carbohydrates
10 g
Sodium
334 mg
Cholesterol
70 mg
Protein
36 g
Fiber
2 g
Sugar
2 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.

Adapted from “Ghana to the World” by Eric Adjepong with Korsha Wilson (Clarkson Potter, 2025).

Tested by Olga Massov.

Published March 4, 2025

Updated March 18, 2026