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Halibut With Peppers - (Mero A La Bilbaina)

You can increase the quantity of the puree by the addition of fish stock if you choose.

Cuisine: Spanish
Type: Fish
Serves: 6 people

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 75mlOlive 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 325F 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:
Barbara Norman

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