Sea Bass, Baja Style

Category: Main Dish

Cuisine: American

Ready in 45 minutes

Ingredients

Cooked rice or pasta

1/2 ts Dried Oregano

2 tb Chopped pickled jalapenos;

2 lb Sea bass steaks or fillets

2 tb olive oil

2 tb Chopped fresh parsley

Black Pepper freshly ground

Fish stock or water; if

1 Bottle Pimento-stuffed green

3 Limes

2 md Onions; chopped

4 lg Ripe tomatoes; peeled and

6 Cloves Garlic; pressed or

2 Sprigs Fresh rosemary

2 tb Pickled jalapeno juice

2 Sprigs Fresh marjoram

1 tb Sea salt

2 tb Capers


Directions

Sprinkle fish with sea salt; place in a large resealable plastic bag. Grate zest (colored portion of peel) from limes, then squeeze juice; add zest and juice to fish in bag. Seal; marinate 1 hour at room temperature or up to 5 hours in the refrigerator. Heat a large skillet over high heat; add olive oil and onions; cook until golden. Add garlic; cook 1 minute more. Reduce heat to medium. Add tomatoes; cook 10 minutes. Add olives, capers, jalapenos, parsley, rosemary, marjoram, oregano and pepper to taste; cook over low heat for about 15 minutes more, adding a small amount of stock or water if mixture gets too dry. Add fish marinade to tomato mixture in skillet. Arrange fish on top; cover. Cook over low heat, about 4 minutes on each side. (Fish is done when it flakes easily with a fork.) Discard herb sprigs. Serve with rice or pasta. Yields 6 to 8 servings. Recipe Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch - 10-26-1998 By Jack and Mary Billings Formatted for MasterCook by Susan Wolfe - swolfe1@prodigy.net

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