Dorinda's Special Baked Fish

Ingredients

 * 4 fresh pompano or red snapper
 * 3 tablespoons peeled and finely grated fresh ginger
 * 4 cloves garlic, minced
 * 2 fresh red chiles, mashed into a pulp
 * salt
 * 1 tablespoon butter
 * 1 teaspoon garlic salt
 * ¾ cup fresh or canned crabmeat
 * 4 crayfish tails, cooked (optional)
 * chile sambal
 * semolina dumplings or cornmeal dumplings

Directions

 * 1) Preheat the oven to 350 °F / 180 °C.
 * 2) Scale and clean the fish, remove the gills, and cut off the fins and the tails.
 * 3) Lay the fish falt on a chopped board, and make 2 deep but short diagonal cuts in each side, leaving ½ inch between the 2 cuts.
 * 4) Prepare the seasoning by mixing the ginger, garlic, chiles, and salt into a paste, and stuff some in the cuts on both sides of each fish.
 * 5) Rub the rest of the seasoning paste all over the fish.
 * 6) Rub the butter over 4 pieces of aluminum foil.
 * 7) Place each piece of fish on a piece of foil, and sprinkle a bit of the garlic salt all over each piece.
 * 8) Loosely wrap up the foil to form parcels, and bake for 30 minutes.
 * 9) Wrap the crabmeat in foil, and warm in the oven for 10 minutes.
 * 10) Unwrap the baked fish and sprinkle the warm crabmeat over each piece.
 * 11) Serve each person a piece of fish and a crayfish tail, accompanied by chile sambal and dumplings.