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Wine-Baked Yellow Perch With Onions, Tomatoes, Mushrooms

This small, delicate, lean-fleshed fish has the ability to nicely absorb the flavorful sauce in which it cooks. Serve it with rice, which also soaks up any remaining sauce.

Courses: Main Course
Serves: 4 people

Recipe Ingredients

4   Yellow perch - - (abt 1 lb ea), gutted, scaled
  (ocean perch may be substituted)
  Salt - to taste
  Freshly-ground black pepper - to taste
2 tablespoons 30mlOlive oil
2 tablespoons 30mlOnions - coarsely chopped (large)
6 tablespoons 90mlTomatoes - - (abt 1 lb), skinned, (medium) and cut
  Cut into 1" cubes - (abt 2 1/2 cups)
1/4 lb 113g / 4ozWhite mushrooms - trimmed, and
  Coarsely chopped - - (abt 1 cup)
1 cup 237mlDry white wine
2 tablespoons 30mlFinely-minced parsley

Recipe Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350F Rub the outside and inside of the fish with salt and pepper. In a large skillet, heat the olive oil over medium-high heat. add the onions and saute, stirring frequently, for 8 to 10 minutes until the onions begin to color.

Spoon the onions evenly over the bottom of a large baking pan. Place the fish over onions, scatter the tomatoes and mushrooms over the fish, then pour the wine over all.

Bake, basting occasionally, for 15 to 20 minutes until a skewer inserted in the thickest part of the fish meets with no resistance. Sprinkle with parsley before serving.

Source:
A SEAFOOD CELEBRATION by Sheryl and Mel London

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