Whole Grilled Fish with Vietnamese Peanut Pesto

Ingredients

• 2 cups roasted peanuts
• 5 garlic cloves
• 3 bunches cilantro
• 1 bunch mint, leaves picked
• 2 bunches green onions
• 1 cup Red Boat fish sauce
• 1 cup dark brown sugar
• 3 limes, juiced
• 1 whole red snapper, 2-3 lbs, scaled and cleaned
• 2 tbsp. vegetable oil
• 1⁄4 red onion, shaved
• 1 lime, halved
• 1⁄2 red chili, thinly shaved
• garlic chives, cut into 1-inch sticks, for garnish
• crushed peanuts, for garnish
• salt
• pepper