Foil cooking has many advantages, one being less mess and less cleaning to do afterward.
It keeps food very moist and retains the flavours.
One of my favourite dishes is red snapper fish cooked in foil.
Here's how it is done.
Buy the snapper already gutted and cleaned for convenience then give it another quick wash over when you get it home.
Get a normal sized oven dish and lay the foil down so that it covers the whole dish.
You might need two layers for thickness depending on the thickness of your foil.
I usually do about five snappers on one oven dish to give you an idea of size.
Next take a red green and yellow pepper and slice them generously length-wise.
Place them loosely over the snapper.
Then take about three large onions and chop them up to preference and sprinkle them over the snapper and peppers.
Take a piece of fresh ginger and chop it up into little pieces and distribute this over the fish.
Then take a generous knob of butter and add to the dish.
I would say half a wooden spoon's worth.
Season with salt and black peppercorns and then wrap another piece of foil over the fish dish.
That's it! Put it in the oven at around 200 and leave to cook for about an hour.
When you remove your dish and raise the foil you will be greeted with a delicious smell of all the ingredients marinating in the butter and the fish looking moist and appealing.
Call your friends and share! A healthy, (watch the butter!) and delicious foil cooked dish that makes little mess to wash up and most of the work is done in the oven.