Recipe - Cod With Tomato Sauce And Basmati Rice Lhj

4 tablespoon Olive oil; divided
1 md Sweet onion; chopped
1 One half pound Plum tomatoes; seeded and
cut or sliced up
1 One fourth teaspoon Salt; divided
Freshly ground pepper
2 pound Cod; cut into 4 equal pieces
One fourth cup Allpurpose flour
1 teaspoon Chopped garlic
1 tablespoon Butter; no substitutions
1 cup Basmati rice; cooked
according to package
directions
Fresh oregano sprigs; for
garnish

1. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a large skillet over high heat, 1 minute. Add
onion; reduce heat to medium and cook, stirring occasionally, until tender,
4 to 5 minutes. Add tomatoes, 1 teaspoon salt and One fourth teaspoon pepper. Cook
10 minutes, stirring occasionally until tomatoes have softened. Set aside,
cover and keep warm.

2. Meanwhile, sprinkle both sides of cod with remaining One fourth teaspoon salt
and pinch of pepper. Spread flour on a plate and dip both sides of fish
lightly in flour.

3. Heat remaining 3 tablespoons oil in 12inch nonstick skillet over
mediumhigh heat. Add garlic and immediately add the cod. Cook 4 minutes.
Turn fish, cover and continue cooking 3 to 4 minutes more until fish just
flakes when tested with a fork. Remove fish to serving platters. Stir
butter into tomato sauce and spoon over fish. Serve with rice. Garnish with
oregano if desired.

NOTES : The secret to this sweet, fouringredient tomato sauce is using a
sweet onion like Vidalia, Maui, Walla Walla, Spanish or Texas Sweet. While
the sauce simmers, cook the fish in a large nonstick skillet. Prep time: 10
minutes Cooking time: 15 minutes Lowfat Degree of difficulty: easy
Recipe by: Ladies Home Journal

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #940 by "abprice@wf.net" abprice@wf.net on
Dec 2, 1997