Ingredients:
Dipping Sauce
1/4 cupsoy sauce
1 lemon, juiced
2 Thai chiles, sliced into rings
Fish
2 milkfish fillets, butterflied and deboned
1/4 cupolive oil, plus more for coating the fish
1 bunchscallions, cut into 1-inch pieces
1/4 cupginger, cut into fine julienne
2 garlic cloves, smashed
Fish sauce, to taste
Salt and pepper, to taste
Directions:
Make the dipping sauce: Mix together soy sauce, lemon juice, and chopped chiles.
Make the fish: Heat oven to 400°F. In a skillet, add the olive oil and bring to medium heat. Add garlic and ginger and cook for 2 minutes until aromatic.
Add scallion and sauté for 1 minute, then add tomato and cook for 5-6 minutes. (You are looking for it to break down slightly, but not turn into a sauce!)
Take the skillet off the heat and add salt, pepper, and fish sauce to taste. Let cool, then stuff each milkfish filet with half of the sofrito mixture.
Season the outside of the milkfish filets with oil, salt, and pepper, and roast on a sheet tray until fish is cooked, 15 to 18 minutes. Serve with white rice and dipping sauce.