Indonesian grilled swordfish

I was at Whole Foods yesterday and saw that something pretty amazing was on sale: 8 oz. steaks of wild-caught swordfish. I decided to go for it, remembering that Ina had a pretty amazing-sounding recipe for marinated swordfish.

I brought the steak home and looked up the recipe: Indonesian grilled swordfish in Back to Basics. It's pretty bad at this point that I not only know that Ina has a recipe for swordfish, but I remembered exactly which of her six books that it's in. Anyway, I saw that it needed to be marinated for at least 4 hours, "preferably overnight," so that pretty much ruled out dinner and brought the swordfish into lunch today.
The Indonesian marinade consisted of the following ingredients:

• Soy sauce
• Oil
• Lemon zest
• Lemon juice
• Grated ginger
• Grated garlic
• Dijon mustard

I quartered the recipe, because I only had one 8 oz. swordfish steak, which seems like more than enough for two people. There was a crazy lady in line at Whole Foods who couldn't decide how much swordfish to get. Just cook it and save the rest for leftovers, lady, it's not that hard!

Anyway, look at this beast:


After it marinated all night, it was smelling pretty tasty. I tossed it on the grill and watched the magic happen.


Ina said to do 5 minutes on each side, so that's what I did. The fish didn't stick at all, and it was easy to take it off and rest afterward. This was a really easy recipe; I love doing marinated meat because it's not much work, and it's ready to grill exactly when you want to grill it.

Needless to say, given Dave's love of large hunks of meat, he was super excited about this. I served it with a spinach and radish salad (as spinach is in season!), as well as some Triscuits spread with a spreadable onion cheddar I picked up at the Mars Cheese Castle recently. I really liked the swordfish; it tasted like very light chicken. And it did seem to pick up the Asian flavors of the marinade, especially the ginger.

Swordfish is expensive, so I don't think I would have ever really tried it if it hadn't been on sale. I'm going to have to watch the Whole Foods meat and fish counter for more great sales like this!