Cooking Italy Baked Filet Of Sole With Tomato Oregano Hot Pepper Recipes

COOKING ITALY: BAKED FILET OF SOLE WITH TOMATO, OREGANO, HOT PEPPER

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450.
• Put the onion and olive in saute pan on medium until onion soften to light gold. Add garlic. Add tomatoes, salt and cook for 20 minutes until oil floats free from tomatoes. Add capers, oregano and pepper. Stir for a minute. Take off heat.
• Wash fish fillets in cold water. Pat dry with paper towels. The recipe calls for folding the fillets in half, and this is probably because they easily fall apart. Smear baking dish with tomato sauce.
• Dip each fillet in sauce, fold. Pour remaining sauce. Put in uppermost rack of oven. Bake for five minutes or until done, but do not overcook.
• If sauce is too liquidy, pour into a saucepan and dilute on top of the stove to get back to
• original density.

FILLET OF SOLE PONTE VECCHIO STYLE

Steps:

• Cut each fish fillet into 4 pieces lengthwise and set aside. Rinse and dry the mushrooms and chop coarsely. Over medium heat, melt 1 tablespoon of the butter, add the onion and cook, stirring frequently, until soft,about 5 minutes. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Add the mushrooms, reduce the heat and continue to cook, stirring constantly until the mushrooms are soft, about 8 minutes. Add the wine and continue cooking for 2 more minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 350°F Add the tomatoes (and up to 1/2 cup of their juice if using canned tomatoes) to this mixture. Stir and season the mixture with salt and pepper to taste. Add the scallions, stir, cover and simmer for 10 minutes. The mixture may require some water, additional wine or tomato juice to keep it thick but not dry; add what you need to suit your taste. After 10 minutes, stir in the parsley and remove from the heat.
• Use the remaining tablespoon of butter to grease an ovenproof pan large enough for the 16 small fish fillets. Season them lightly with salt and pepper and pour the sauce over the fillets. Cover the pan with foil and place in the oven for 15 minutes. Serve with buttered potatoes or steamed white rice.

SOLE OREGANATA

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Mix both bread crumbs, Parmesan cheese, oregano, and salt in a shallow dish.
• Pour melted butter over both sides of sole fillets. Place fillets in bread crumb mixture and press to coat. Transfer to a baking dish.
• Bake in the preheated oven until fish flakes easily with a fork, about 12 minutes. Turn on the broiler and broil until crumb topping is light golden brown, 1 to 2 minutes.
• While the fish is cooking, melt butter for sauce in a pan over medium heat. Add cream, Pinot Grigio, lemon juice, and pepper; stir until sauce is smooth and has thickened slightly.
• Serve sauce over sole.

SOLE WITH BASIL, TOMATOES AND OREGANO

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Pat the sole dry with paper towels and sprinkle with salt and pepper. In a large ovenproof saute pan, brown the sole in 1 tablespoon olive oil on one side, then remove from the pan and set aside. Add the oregano, red pepper flakes and garlic to the pan and saute 1 minute. Next, add the potatoes and chopped tomatoes (with their juices) and cook 1 to 2 minutes. Pour half of the lemon juice into the pan, add the chicken stock and season with salt and pepper. Bring to a simmer, and then add the fish back to the pan and baste with the sauce. Finish cooking in the oven, 5 to 7 minutes.
• Remove the fish from the pan and place on a platter. Return the pan to the stove and add the remaining 1 tablespoons olive oil along with the chopped basil and remaining lemon juice. Let the sauce reduce over medium heat, 2 minutes. Serve the fish with the sauce and garnish with chopped basil.

BAKED FILLET OF SOLE WITH TOMATO, OREGANO AND HOT PEPPER

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Adjust oven rack to the top level.
• Put onion and olive oil in a skillet, turn heat to medium, and cook until the onion is golden. Add garlic, and saute until it turns pale gold; then add the tomatoes and a little salt, and stir. Simmer 20 minutes, until the oil floats on the surface of the mixture. Add the capers, oregano and pepper. Stir and cook a minute longer, and remove from heat.
• Rinse and dry the fish. Select a baking dish large enough to hold the fillets folded in half lengthwise in a single layer. Spread a tablespoon of the tomato mixture in the bottom of the dish.
• Dip each fillet in the tomato mixture to coat both sides, fold lengthwise, and arrange in the baking dish. Pour remaining sauce over fish, and bake, uncovered, 5 minutes or slightly longer, until fish is done.
• Remove from the oven, tip the dish and spoon the sauce from the dish into a saucepan. Cook the sauce over high heat until it has returned to its original thickness. Spoon it back over the fish, and serve directly from the baking dish.