Sailor Style Bluefish With Onions And Tomatoes Recipes

GREEK BAKED FISH WITH TOMATOES AND ONIONS

Steps:

• Pat the fish dry and season to taste with salt and pepper. Oil one or two baking dishes large enough to accommodate the fish in one layer. Lay the fish in the dish and pour on the lemon juice. Refrigerate for 30 to 60 minutes while you prepare the remaining ingredients.
• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Heat the oil over medium heat in a large, heavy skillet and add the onions. Cook, stirring often, until they have softened and begun to color slightly, 8 to 10 minutes. Add a generous pinch of salt and the garlic and cook, stirring, until the garlic is fragrant, 30 seconds to a minute. Stir in the tomatoes, sugar, paprika, cinnamon, dissolved tomato paste, wine, half the parsley and more salt and pepper to taste and bring to a simmer. Simmer uncovered, stirring often, until the sauce has cooked down a bit and is very fragrant, about 15 minutes. Remove from the heat and pour over the fish. Sprinkle on the remaining parsley.
• Place in the oven and bake until the fish is opaque and pulls apart easily with a fork, about 30 minutes. Baste the fish every 10 minutes if it is not submerged in the sauce. Serve hot or warm, with rice, bulgur, or potatoes.

BROILED BLUEFISH WITH TOMATO, OLIVE, AND CAPER COMPOTE

Steps:

• Make the compote. Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the onion, garlic, jalapeno, and celery, season with pepper, and cook, stirring, until soft and fragrant, about 4 minutes. Add the tomatoes, olives, and capers and cook, stirring, until hot, about 2 minutes more.
• Remove from the heat and stir in the lemon juice and parsley. Set aside covered with foil to keep warm.
• Place a rack 5 inches from the broiler element and preheat.
• Prepare the fish. Using a sharp knife, slash the bluefish skin to form cross-hatch marks. Transfer the fillets to a foil-lined baking sheet and brush all over with the oil. Season with salt and generously with pepper. Broil the fish skin-side down, until just cooked through, about 5 minutes. (If the skin comes loose during cooking, you may remove and discard it.)
• Using a metal spatula, transfer the fillets to 4 warmed plates and top with the compote. Serve immediately.

BLUEFISH WITH FENNEL AND TOMATO SAUCE

Steps:

• Discard the feathery green tops of the fennel, core and cut the bulb into 1inch pieces. Heat 2 tablespoons of the olive oil in a 9inch skillet. Add the fennel, garlic, orange rind, fennel seeds, liquor, salt and pepper. Cover and simmer, over medium heat for 10 minutes.
• After 10 minutes add the tomatoes, recover and simmer for 10 minutes longer. Remove the cover and check the liquid in the pan. If there is a good deal remaining, evaporate it until the mixture look syrupy. Remove the orange rind. Turn the heat off and stir in the butter. Season to taste with salt and pepper; cool to room temperature.
• Season the bluefish fillets with salt and pepper, and set them, skin side down in a generously buttered baking/serving dish large enough to hold the fillets in a single layer. Spoon the cooled vegetable mixture over the fish, cover with foil and store in the refrigerator for up to 12 hours.
• To bake and serve, remove the fish from the refrigerator 30 minutes before baking. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees and bake 20 to 25 minutes covered with foil until the center no longer looks translucent but opaque. Remove from oven and serve; garnish with yellow bell pepper and chives.

SAILOR STYLE BLUEFISH WITH ONIONS AND TOMATOES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350F or Heat Barbecue to Inderect Medium Heat. Rinse the Bluefish under fresh running water, pat dry with a paper towel. Salt and Pepper the inside and outside of the fish lightly. Stuff the bunch of basil inside the cavity, set aside. Tear a sheet of heavy duty aluminum foil large enough for the fish to sit on top of it with about 4-6 inches overhang on each side.(you will be covering the first sheet with another, to make a sealed package). Place the sheet of foil on a large baking pan to prevent drips, and to allow for ease of transport. Using Half the Tomatoes place a layer of Tomatoes in the middle of the foil, cover with half the sliced onions. This is a base for the fish. Place the fish on the layer of tomatoes and onions. Cover with the remaining tomatoes and onions. Place another sheet of heavy duty aluminum foil on top, and fold and crimp the two layers edges together to seal. Be especially careful sealing the edges, as you do not want a leak. Place baking pan in oven carefully, bake for approx 10-15 minutes, until fish is cooked just about through (you must all ow for carryover cooking on larger fish, smaller fish may be cooked through in the oven) Open the foil on the fish, and, carefully peel off the top skin (it should remove easily) then, remove the top pieces with a fork. They will seperate easily from the backbone. Once all the top pieces are removed, pull up the head and backbone (they come off together) and remove the bottom slices from the skin.