Chef Maria Loi teaches how to grill a whole branzino.
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[Music] hey we are out on the terrace serving up the dishes you’ll want to make all summer long And we are joined by the prominent Greek chef restaurant tour cookbook author and the host of the life of Ly Please welcome Maria Ly Hello This is a treat Okay Whole fish We’re going to grill a whole fish today It’s very intimidating for noncheffy people Come on It’s so easy It tastes better too doesn’t it With a whole fish Yeah Well we make everything taste better you know with the Greek She’s Greek You know that That’s right I’m Greek Okay So what do we look for in a whole First of all you see the eyes Yes Are clear Okay Then you smell If it smells fishy say to your fish That’s it That’s good That’s it That’s it That’s it Smell Then what else you need Touch it like that You see it’s firm Yes That’s it That’s it If it’s mushy mushy no Right No we don’t do mushy things It’s better right This is more cost effective to make a fish It is super cost effective but you know you can buy also frozen fish It’s okay you know but you have to leave it because we don’t need the water The water it’s bad Okay So and let me show you how It’s ironic that water is bad for fish isn’t it Except if it’s reg Yeah Yes Okay So this is the way you see it here Okay You’re scraping the scales off like that There are But you know what In the meantime you take all the moist out So then in order to be better you put paper towel dry You dry it off I see both sides Okay Okay And then that’s it All right What are we going to season the fish with It’s easy It’s easy Every This is the answer to every olive oil Perfect I will put lemon in here So you put it inside Inside It’s nice Also because I’m very Greek I’ll put some mint Mint Yeah Mint Of course All oregano You can do oregano as well Okay Yeah This And then you put salt and pepper That’s it Yeah See how easy it is now Here All right And then we’ll go to take it to the grill But I give you a tip Okay Here See how it is here You cut it with a knife So this is will make you to clean it easier Here Yeah And here also cooks better Is that like the spine of the fish Okay And so how do we prep the grill What temperature do we need Well so you see here it says almost 400 Depends You can have a grill pan You don’t have to have a grill in your home Okay So but it has to be hot Hot Hey so I was cooking so you can see now Yes of course You know but what I’m going to do I’m going to take this and I’m going to put it in the grill Yeah Here I will move it Also another tip that I’ve learned from my father you know you take a lemon So this way cut it here like this and clean your grill before that All the craz like that with a lemon And it sanitizes as well Yeah See that’s it Then we are learning so much today You put the fish there Okay To have the the grills Where are you going Where are you going Okay Just put it in there I love it Yeah You need that lemony taste Yeah you want it So and then here you put How many How many minutes do we leave it on one side usually like it’s uh 7 something but to make it easier and more moist you know to get the fish it’s here You put this on the top Okay And you protect it And also all the goodness it goes there It’s absorbed into the fish Perfect Okay Okay So while that’s cooking teach us how to make the dressing because the Greek dressing is I I I can’t eat fish unless it’s in Greece I swear Or at your place And I will I will give you another secret now that I I I learned you know in in Abu Dhabi So here you have what is olive oil here Okay Olive oil Gorgeous Makes life taste better And healthier So lemon juice This is a bit of um mustard powder but if you want it if you don’t want it it’s okay Mustard powder Yeah Yeah Yeah We want it Okay We wanted how you do it Okay Exactly All right So this is mint Mint Mint Mint I’m giving you all my secrets today Today we get to see and that I will do a different so this way you will see And that’s a bit of oregano No Yeah I love it And you can add some salt and pepper here Okay Okay Tell me how much salt to add One One two three Stop Stop Pepper liberally Yes Yeah We I love that Yeah You can also add garlic if you’d like Right You of course you can add garlic What is this This is my black lime which you can make it easily at home You can find it you know like in the special stores A black I am obsessed with it you know in it’s the Mirati truffle That’s how I call it So since I learned you know I always put it now here And another thing that I’m doing you know if I want to make a dressing like this and to have it in my refrigerator you just go there Oh that’s it Easy peasy Yeah So and you can make black limes Yes Blanch them Okay Hot water Then dry them And then dry them under this beautiful sun Okay Or in your oven Oh In the oven Until they’ll become black like that And hard like that Oh my god This I can So you see now okay I’m watching Since we have this [Music] okay And you put it here Okay Like this We do that You have this dressing Okay See it’s almost ready because we we cover the top Okay Gorgeous Sorry And then you take the dressing Oh you put it on before you do the other side Okay We’ve been doing fish wrong All right We will show you how to debone this fish when we come back Stick around All right we’re back with Chef Maria Loy and we’re finishing our grilled branzino and now we’re going to debone the fish Yes you’re going to teach us how to debone this fish So easy So you can make it at home for people to debone a fish So first of all okay you see how easy now we did it You know the street over there Then you go like this Okay Okay You cut it here Okay And then you open it That’s it Wow It’s really That’s so easy You make a little Is it going to be this easy when we do it Yes And then you remove these bones here Okay And you have like the fillet See Nothing here Okay Filt So and then maybe if you if you want the head or anything I don’t know Then you put it from here and you remove it Okay Look at that Wow Wow So I will leave it here because we firm it over there Okay But and you know you have the salad You know the salad that I made Beautiful cucumber salad That recipe is on our website Make sure Wait I have to take a bite Do you mind Yeah It’s Greek It’s Greek It’s like being in Thank you Thank you Maria It was delicious For this recipe visit our website And if you’re in New York stop by Ly And don’t forget to check out The Life of Loy on PBS and streaming services You are the best Yeah On Monday show Joel Mail Monica Barbaro Have a great weekend Absolutely Hi everybody