Aishling Moore: How to make barbecued red mullet with grilled courgette salad

I have butterflied the fish here, but grilling the fish whole produces sublime results.

Aishling Moore's grilled red mullet courgette salad: Picture: Chani Anderson

Sat, 15 Aug, 2026 - 01:00

Aishling Moore is head chef and co-owner of Goldie, the award-winning seafood restaurant in Cork city. A pioneer of gill-to-fin cooking in Ireland, and author of cookbook The Whole Catch, she's won multiple awards for her cooking and writing.

Red mullet is in season now and is one of the most beautiful fish in the sea with its apricot

coloured skin. It has a distinctive shrimp-like flavour and is the perfect fish for this application. It’s an oily species and firm in texture, so is well able to stand up to the char and smoke of a live fire.