Mediterranean Cod With Tomatoes Recipes

MEDITERRANEAN BAKED COD

Steps:

• Prep: Preheat the oven to 400°F. Lightly grease a rectangular baking dish that will comfortably hold all your cod pieces and tomatoes and place the fish inside.
• Add vegetables: Scatter the onion, garlic, tomatoes and olives around the fish.
• Season: Drizzle the olive oil all over the ingredients in the dish. Sprinkle with Italian seasoning and season with salt and pepper.
• Finish and bake: Pour the water into the dish. Scatter the butter evenly over the dish. Bake for 15-20 minutes, or until the tomatoes and fish are cooked.

MEDITERRANEAN COD WITH TOMATOES

Steps:

• Slice onion and let sit for 5 minutes to bring out its health promotion properties.
• Combine honey and tomatoes in a mixing bowl.
• Saute onion and bell peppers for 2 minutes.
• Add 1/2 cup chicken (or vegetable) broth, fish fillets and tomato mixture.
• Cover and cook over medium heat for 3-5 minutes or until fish is cooked.
• Add basil, parsley and salt and pepper to taste.

COD WITH TOMATOES, OLIVES, AND CAPERS

Steps:

• Heat oil in a Dutch oven or deep skillet over medium high heat. Add garlic and onion and saute, stirring until the onions begin to soften, about 3 minutes. Add oregano and thyme, stir. Add tomatoes, olive, capers and about half the parsley. Simmer until tomatoes cook down to a chunky sauce.
• Sprinkle fish with salt on both sides. Push some of the sauce to one side of the pan and spread the rest thinly over the bottom of the pan. Place the fish on top of the sauce in the bottom of the pan and cover with the sauce that you previously pushed aside. Cover the pan and simmer over medium heat until the fish is opaque and flakes easily, about 10 minutes.
• Sprinkle the remaining parsley over the fish and serve.

COD IN TOMATOES WITH WINE

Steps:

• Slice an 'X' in the bottom of each tomato. Bring a pot of water to a boil; boil tomatoes for 2 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon and place in a bowl of iced water for 1 minute. Peel tomatoes, starting from the 'X' side; chop.
• Heat vegetable oil in a skillet over low heat; cook and stir onion and garlic until fragrant, about 2 minutes. Add chile pepper and tomatoes; cook and stir until tomatoes begin reduce, 5 to 8 minutes. Pour in wine; cook over medium heat until wine reduces slightly, about 5 more minutes. Stir in salt, black pepper, basil, and parsley.
• Place cod loins into tomato mixture; cover and cook for 5 minutes. Turn cod and cook other side until fish flakes easily with a fork, 3 to 5 minutes. Add prawns; cover and cook until prawns are bright pink on the outside and the meat is no longer transparent in the center, 2 to 3 minutes. Season with salt and black pepper.

COD & MEDITERRANEAN TOMATO SAUCE

Steps:

• Roughly chop the onion, carrot, celery and garlic.
• Pour half of the olive oil into a pan, heat and then add the chopped vegetables. Sweat the vegetables without colouring them until softened.
• Add the chopped tomatoes, basil leaves, passata, sugar and chilli flakes and pepper. Give good stir and then allow to simmer and reduce for at least 30 minutes. If a smoother sauce is required, this is the time to use a hand held blender (or similar) to get rid of any lumps.
• Mix the flour and seasoning in a shallow bowl and then dredge cod loins in the flour and set aside ready to fry.
• Heat the remaining oil in a frying pan and then gently place the floured cod loins into the pan and cook, turn the cod carefully and continue to fry until the cod has cooked through. Do not be tempted to cook the fish for too long or else it will dry out.
• Serve the cod with the sauce. A good accompaniment to this is gnocchi. Also, can add a handful of black olives to the tomato sauce to give it some extra zing.

RICH AND SAUCY MEDITERRANEAN COD

Steps:

• Precise amounts of vegetables not given as you just need to use more of the ones you prefer! Be generous with the tomatoes though. Can also add olives, broccoli or, really, any other of your favourite vegetables (I even used Brussels sprouts today). Start by seasoning the cod with salt and pepper, brush over some olive oil and some lemon zest Leave to infuse.
• Par boil potatoes until soft to the touch (no need to peel). Heat oven to 190 / (170C fan). When cool enough to hande, cut into 0.5-1cm thick slices. Add to a bowl along with the rest of the ingredients (except the fish and wine). Mix thoroughly, then when all vegetables are coated, tip into a shallow glass baking dish. Gently drizzle in the wine without distrubing the vegetables (don't want to wash off the oil, herbs and spices!).
• Bake in the preheated oven until the juices are bubbling and the tomatoes are beginning to soften (about 15 minutes). Then gently rest the cod pieces on top of the almost-cooked vegetables and return to the oven. After five minutes, you can lay a little butter on top of the fish to give a bit of extra flavour (but this is optional). Return to the oven for a further 5-10 minutes - try not to over-cook the cod.
• Remove the dish from the oven. There should now be a delicious puddle of richly flavoured juice at the bottom. Transfer the vegetables from the dish into serving bowls, then carefully transfer the cod pieces (try not to break them - use a fish slice, as they should be quite fragile) and place on top of the vegetables. Ladle the lovely juice over the cod and allow it to dribble into the vegetables.
• Serve with warmed crusty bread to mop up the juice!