Gefilte Fish Appetizer (Doctored from the Jar)

"This is a recipe from my Aunt, Rosalee Patrick (my Mother's deceased sister), for doctoring gefilte fish from the jar and making it taste as if it were made from scratch. Trust me, IT'S GREAT! Thank you Aunt Rosalee, wherever you are..."
 
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Ready In:
1hr 5mins
Ingredients:
6
Serves:
6
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ingredients

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directions

  • Place very little olive oil in a pot over medium heat.
  • Add the onion and just slightly brown.
  • Add the pieces of fish and the fish geletin, carrots, celery and pepper to taste.
  • Raise heat to high and bring to a boil and then reduce the heat back to medium or medium-low and simmer 8 to 10 minutes… Remove from heat.
  • Take the pieces of fish out of the pot very gently and cool on a platter.
  • Reserve the vegetables.
  • Slightly oil a cookie sheet.
  • Lay the pieces of fish onto the slightly oiled cookie sheet and turn the fish over, so that both sides of the fish are oiled. Place the fish into a pre-heated 350 degree oven for 10 minutes.
  • Turn the fish over and bake another 10 minutes, or until the fish is slightly browned. Remove from oven and refrigerate. Serve with the reserved vegetables and horseradish.

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Reviews

  1. I followed the recipe exactly, using my favorite Rokeach Old Vienna gefilte fish, which I usually recook in a pot with onions, carrots and water. I found the fish to be dry after baking it, and didn't feel that there was any enhancement to the flavor.
     
  2. This recipe is amazing. I followed the recipe exactly as written. Had it the next morning and still delicious. Very easy to make. Very close to the way my nana made it except for the shape.
     
  3. Delicious! I always "doctor" my gefilte fish, but I've never finished it by baking. It made a big difference. This is my permanent gefilte fish recipe. I used white fish and pike for the fish and also added some sugar.
     
  4. I made this for my temple's Passover Seder. Almost everyone in the temple actually ate Gefilte Fish last night! (I always though gefilte fish was like fruitcake...) A few people were eating their neighbors. I didn't' get the chance to brown them in the oven and they were still devoured.
     
  5. i love gefilte fish and this is sort of kind like my gefilte fish recipe. sauteing the babies makes it different and good. A keeper, maybe even a new tradition.
     
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Tweaks

  1. Followed the recipe and it did indeed come out disappointingly dry. I intended to use the gefilte fish as a main course though my husband historically viewed it as an appetizer. A late moment of inspiration and I mixed several splashes of sriracha hot chili sauce with chicken bone broth (used earlier to mash potatoes) and spooned it over the dry fish. He said that he enjoyed it more than he thought he would.
     

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I was born in 1942 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in this GREAT United States of America. I have since resided in Baltimore Maryland, Atlanta Georgia, Orlando Florida, Fort Lauderdale Florida, Los Angeles California, Selma Oregon, and now in Albuquerque New Mexico. I have enjoyed not only eating, but cooking all my life.
 
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