Pan Grilled Tuna Panga

Inihaw Na Panga or Grilled Jaws is a popular dish in the Philippines where soy sauce marinated fish jaws are grilled in charcoal. This is our favorite easy to do but very tasty recipe of tuna panga. 

Ingredients:

Marinade:

2 kg Large Fish (Tuna, Hapuka, Grouper) Jaw

½ cup soy sauce

calamansi juice

salt

freshly ground black pepper

Basting Sauce:

⅓ cup soy sauce

¼ cup water

⅓ cup packed brown sugar

calamansi juice

2 tsp cornstarch

garlic cloves

2 tbsp oil

Procedure:

Combine all marinade ingredients together.

Place fish in a zip lock bag together with the marinade, let it marinate for at least 2 hours.

Prepare your basting sauce. Place oil in a sauce pan then sauté garlic on low heat.

Combine remaining ingredients in a bowl then mix until free of lumps, pour over the sauce pan then bring to a boil. Simmer for 2 minutes or until it thickens.

Drain marinade from fish then place them on a grill (charcoal grill preferred) but I used a Tefal Fan. Cook for 10 to 15 minutes on each side while continuously basting with prepared basting sauce on the last 5 minutes of the cooking time.