Halibut With Peppers - {Mero A La Bilbaina}

Recipe Ingredients

6		Halibut - thick slices
		(or other white fish) - about 1 1/2 pounds
1		Onion - chopped (large)
3		Garlic cloves - minced (large)
3		Red peppers - seeded and minced (large)
1/2		Lemon - juice only (large)
1		Bay leaf
5 tablespoons	75ml	Olive oil
		Salt and pepper - to taste

Recipe Instructions

Heat olive oil in frying pan. Brown onion and garlic. Fry peppers until mixture reduces to a pulp. Sprinkle fish slices with salt, put in baking dish greased with olive oil. Pour lemon juice and a thin stream of olive oil over fish and bake in preheated 325 degree oven, basting occasionally.

When pepper-onion-garlic mixture has reduced to a pulp, add a little of the juice from the baking fish, season with salt and pepper, add bay leaf, and continue cooking the puree another 5 minutes. Pass it through a sieve, cover the fish with the puree, and continue baking until fish is done (a total of 20 to 30 minutes).

Source:
THE SPANISH COOKBOOK by Barbara Norman - Published by Bantam Books, Inc. (c) 1969

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