Cold Water Fish Recipes

One of those cold water fish recipes that would adapt to any medium sized catch of the day. If it were larger than say 3lbs, then you could cut it into pieces and increase the quantity of other ingredients.

It's quite mediterranean with its use of tomatoes, garlic and olives - I love black olives.

You know what - I might add some grated parmesan (fresh) to this just before serving.

Baked Bream
1 bream 2lbs (1k) or thereabouts - gutted and scaled
Olive oil
1 onion - peeled and chopped
2 cloves garlic - peeled and crushed
4 very ripe tomatoes or 1 tin italian tomatoes
1 tbspn tomato puree
2 tspns sugar
12 black olives - pitted and halved
pepper - fresh black
squeeze of lemon juice
handful fresh chopped parsley

Heat your oven to Gas Mark 6,400 F or 200C

Wash and dry the fish.

Heat some olive oil and soften the garlic and onion. Add the tomatoes, puree and sugar and simmer for about 5 minutes.

Oil an ovenproof dish and spread half the tomato mixture on the bottom - lay the fish on top.

Season with pepper and lemon juice and then arrange the olives on top - cover with the other half of the tomato mixture - add the chopped parsley evenly over the whole dish.

Bake in the oven for about 30 minutes until the fish is cooked through.

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