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Roasted Swordfish Messinise

Type: Fish
Courses: Main Course
Serves: 4 people

Recipe Ingredients

8 cups 1896mlBasic Tomato Sauce - (see recipe)
2 tablespoons 30mlCapers - drained from brine
3 tablespoons 45mlPine nuts
2 tablespoons 30mlCurrants
2 tablespoons 30mlSmall black olives - pits removed
  = (such as Nicoise or Gaeta)
1/2 teaspoon 2.5mlFinely-minced hot chilis (serrano)
1 cup 237mlDry white wine
4   Swordfish steaks, 1" thk - (6 oz ea) - skin removed
  Salt - to taste
  Freshly-ground black pepper - to taste

Recipe Instructions

In a 2-quart sauce pan stir Basic Tomato Sauce, capers, pine nuts, currants, olives, hot chilis and wine together and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 2 minutes.

Remove from heat and pour half the sauce into a shallow casserole, just large enough to hold the fish and sauce, about 9- by 12- by 2-inch.

Season swordfish steaks with salt and pepper and place on top of sauce in casserole. Pour the remaining sauce around the fish spooning a tablespoonful over each steak.

Place in the preheated oven and bake 12 to 15 minutes uncovered. Remove from oven and serve immediately. Swordfish should be served moist not dry, but cooked through. Swordfish is not recommended to be eaten rare like tuna or salmon.

This recipe yields 4 servings.

Source:
MOLTO MARIO with Mario Batali - (Show # MB-5607) - from the TV FOOD NETWORK

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