Food Monday ~ Italian Cooked Cod
Italian Cooked Cod
Serves 4 preheat oven to 190ºC
4 Cod fillets*
2×15 ml sp Olive Oil
1 med Onion chopped
2 cloves Garlic crushed
14oz can Tomatoes chopped
5oz Mushrooms sliced
1×15ml sp freshly chopped Basil
Juice of half a lemon
8 Black Olives
Salt & Black Pepper
Heat the oil in a saucepan and fry the onion until soft. Add the garlic, tomatoes and season with salt & black pepper. Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the mushrooms and simmer for a further 10 minutes until the sauce thickens and then stir in the basil. Place the fish in an ovenproof dish, season & sprinkle with a little lemon juice. Spoon the sauce over the fish and place in the centre of a preheated oven for 25 minutes.
Serve with boiled potatoes and a green salad.
* Any white fish will do if cod is not available.
steph said,
August 25, 2008 at 9:40 am
Looks good! GM
Are the black olives for eating while the fish is cooking?
Magpie11 said,
August 25, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Num!
I love Cod and Parsley Sauce .
We have a fishmonger who drives down from up north (Grimsby I think) and he says that locally to him people eat haddock rather than cod….
Grannymar said,
August 25, 2008 at 4:51 pm
@Steph - You can nibble on the olives as you cook the dish, add them to the dish or use them for decoration as you serve it! Leave a few for me please!
@Magpie - This will make a tasty and colourful change to Cod and Parsley Sauce.
Nancy said,
August 25, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Grannymar,
I don’t care for boiled potatoes. May I serve mashed potatoes instead?
steph said,
August 25, 2008 at 8:38 pm
@ Nancy
Don’t tell Grannymar, but…
we have a great chip shop nearby (run by Italians) so this will make the perfect accompaniment to her recipe.
My costume may need some adjustment afterwards
Grannymar said,
August 25, 2008 at 9:03 pm
@Nancy - Do you not boil the potatoes before mashing them?
@Steph - I have a friend who buys her chips from a Chinese take away. She swears they are far better than home made or from the local chipper!
Baino said,
August 25, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Yum. I actually have some nice silver dory in the freezer so tonight’s heart friendly dinner awaits! Sounds delish. I use tiny chat’s potatoes (new potatoes although they’re available all year here) they go sooooooo well with fish.
Grannymar said,
August 25, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Baino Enjoy!
Nancy said,
August 25, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Steph,
Don’t worry about your costume. Didn’t we agree we were going to do Synchronized drowning?
Nancy said,
August 25, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Grannymar,
Oh! You’re supposed to BOIL the potatoes before mashing?
Maybe that’s what has been the matter all these years.Big hard lumps have always been my problem…….
Magpie11 said,
August 26, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Talk of chips …the best are fried in lard…preferably beefy! Go to Whitby if you wan the very nest!
BTW Fish and Chips were invented by the Italians I believe…
Denise said,
August 27, 2008 at 12:40 pm
I don’t particularly like fish but for some reason this recipe sounds fantastic….i have the greatest urge to buy fish and cook it!
Grannymar said,
August 27, 2008 at 4:23 pm
@Nancy - Boiling makes mashing easier
@Magpie - Most of the Fish & Chip shope when I was young were owned by Italians.
@Denise - Welcome aboard.
Go on, try the fish dish it might open up a whole new world of eating pleasure for you.