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Non Mango Mahi Mahi

So I might the only person on the planet that doesn't like mango. And I was trying to broaden the types of fish we eat and I decided we needed to eat mahi mahi, we every damn recipe has mango in it...horay!  So I finally found something else and it was spicy.  I have tried it a few times and I had to tone it down a bit so I could handle it.  Chris loved it, I not so much.  Here is the colors of the spices that tells you how this is about to go down.


The spices above are:
1 tsp sea salt
2 tsp garlic powder
2 tsp cumin
2 tsp paprika
2 tsp cayenne pepper

The original recipe only used 3 pieces of mahi mahi but I have used up to 6 and had plenty of mixture.   You will need some olive oil to cook the fish in, I tried grape seed oil and it just got soaked up too fast by the fish.  Start off with the fish  dried off and the mixture all prepped.

Then add some of the dry rub to each side



Go ahead and do this for all of your fillets.  You can tell which one is mine, the one with the least seasonings, that looks wet still.

Next add you fillets to your warm pan with the olive oil

They only need about 3 or 4 minutes on each side


And this is what happens when you use grapeseed oil instead of olive oil.  In tasted great but stuck to the pan a little.  You can tell when they are done by how firm the fillets are.


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