Halibut Creole

Shae's Note:

The garden meets the sea in this kicked up fish dish!! I wish I could credit this recipe's creator but it was given to me by a neighbor, who got it from her sister-in-law, blah, blah. I am just glad it came to me!

• Total Time: 45 mins
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 1 ½-2 lbs halibut steaks
• salt
• fresh ground pepper or course ground pepper
• 3 tomatoes , peeled,seeded,and chopped
• ½ cup green pepper , chopped
• ½ cup onion , chopped
• 1 jalapeno , chopped (de-seeded to reduce heat, if you need to)
• 3 tablespoons butter
• 1 ½ tablespoons lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon Tabasco sauce or 1 teaspoon your favorite hot sauce

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Lightly butter a shallow baking dish large enough to place fish in one layer.
3. Salt and pepper fish steaks, place in baking dish.
4. Mix together tomato, green pepper, onion, and jalapeno and top each fish steak with mixture.
5. Melt butter and mix in lemon juice and tabasco, then drizzle over each fish steak.
6. Bake approx 25 minutes, basting w/ pan juices about every 10 minutes.
7. NOTE: If I have closer to 2 lbs of fish steaks, I will double the sauce mixture, but that's just preference!

Reviews

[sweetchocolate]

I used some leftover homemade salsa (tomato, onion, cilantro, jalepeno, squeeze of lemon juice) in place of the chopped veggies, but added the melted butter and a squirt of hot sauce to this dish and .... I think it tastes awesome. My 4 and 2 year old did not care for this, but that may just be a fish bias on their parts. My husband said the flavor is good!

[Bergy]

5 star all the way- I didn't use any butter (I would love itbut every little cut back helps) The chopped peppers, onion & tomatoe are so colorful and tasty. The recipe is a real eyecatcher and a taste tantilizer.. I used Mama Africa's Piri piri sauce. . Definite do again recipe 11Feb 10 Made again and enjoyed just as much!

[RotiJala]

I used a diced tomato and chopped parsley for the topping, plus some grated Gruyere cheese (as I don't like green pepper). 19 minutes in the oven at 190-200 degrees C was all it needed to get juicily flaky. Very tasty! Other half loved it, too. :)