Feb 19, 2012

Jaws and fish for dinner

Alligator skulls
Cedar Key Museum State Park

 St. Clair Whitman collected these alligator skulls. Alligators like grouper. Here's a recipe:

Grouper with tomatoes

2 pieces of grouper, each about 5 oz. (or some other fish)
salt
pepper
olive oil
1 small to medium onion, chopped
1 fat clove garlic, minced
2 tomatoes, diced
5 large green olives, stuffed, sliced
1 T. capers, rinsed
1 little can of chopped chilis
fresh lemon or lime juice

Saute the fish until it is cooked through (rule of thumb is 10 min. per inch thick).  Put it on a warm plate in a warm oven.
Make the rest of the ingredients into a sauce:
Fry the onions until soft and starting to caramelize. Add garlic and cook another minute, stirring. Add the tomatoes, olives, capers and chilis. Cook, stirring occasionally, until you like the sauce -- 10-20 minutes. Season with salt and pepper and lemon or lime juice. Spoon the sauce over the fish. We had this with noodles and broccoli, and it was good.

This my adaptation of this slightly more complicated recipe from Weeknight Kitchen. I also make a similar dish, in which you put all the ingredients in foil packets and bake it for about 40 minutes at 350°. That recipe calls for basil and leaves out the onion and garlic.




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