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Wash the fish well with cold water. The fish should not have any fishy smell, it should smell like the sea and this means that it is fresh.
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Wash the rice and set aside.
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Prepare the marinate by mixing up all the marinate ingredients. Add the fish and cover the fillets from both sides. Set aside for about half an hour.
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Heat the canola oil in a frying pan.
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Dip the fillets in the flour to cover from both sides then fry to a golden color.
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Set the fish aside on paper towel to absorb the extra oil.
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Strain the canola oil you used to fry the fish with and use it to saute/ fry the onions. This way you will get the flavor of the fish incorporated with the onions.
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Brown the onions to a nice golden/brown color. Set aside on a paper towel to absorb the extra oil.
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Add the spices to the rice to prepare for assembly.
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To assemble:
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Put the onions in the bottom of the pot.
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Add a thin layer of the spiced up rice.
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Add the fish fillets.
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Add another layer of the rice to cover up all the fish.
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Cook on high heat until the water starts boiling. Lower the heat and cook the post on low simmer until the rice is fully cooked. It is just like cooking a pot of rice. It should take about 30-45 minutes to cook.
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Invert the pot on a platter. Add couple of fried fish fillets on top and garnish with fried pine nuts or fried slivered almond or both.
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Serve hot next to green salad or tomato salad mixed with parsley and cucumber with tahini sauce.
