Red Snapper Livornese

"A tangy, easy recipe for almost any firm-fleshed fish fillets: red snapper, sea bass, grouper. Adaptable for sole, flounder, tilapia, and other thin fillets by adjusting cooking time. Serve with white rice or couscous, and a salad or steamed broccoli. From Ro on allrecipes.com."
 
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Ready In:
45mins
Ingredients:
10
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
  • In a medium skillet, heat olive oil and saute onion until tender, about 5 minutes.
  • Add garlic, and saute for 1 minute.
  • Stir in tomatoes, capers, black olives, red pepper flakes, and parsley.
  • Bring to a boil, and simmer for 10 minutes.
  • Spread 1/2 cup of the sauce in a 11x7 inch baking dish, and arrange the snapper fillets in a single layer in the dish.
  • Drizzle lemon juice over the fillets, and then pour the remaining sauce over all.
  • Bake for 15 minutes for 1/2 inch thick fillets, or 30 minutes for 1 inch thick fillets.
  • Baste once with the sauce while baking.
  • Snapper is done when it flakes easily with a fork.

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Reviews

  1. "Damn yummy"! That's what the husband said and I have to agree. The family sucked it down and was scraping the platter for the extra sauce. I served it on a bed of linguine with cauliflower and a green salad. Followed the recipe exactly except due to the abundance of tomatos in my garden use fresh instead of canned.
     
  2. Wonderful! I made this according to the recipe, except I added about 4 times the amount of red pepper. Hubby agreed, this one is a keeper! Thanks-
     
  3. I accidentally thought I'd purchased red snapper... and realized when I took it out of the fridge, it was cod! Let me tell you, however... this dish worked WONDERFULLY with cod. It was 'steakish' like and both DH and I adored it. Thank you!
     
  4. Greeeat recipe. A true super-food entre. I love the presentation. Kinda like a genovese I have done with Mahi. If you don't like olives you could use artichoke heart and maintain the zesty taste. Thanks for sharing gibson
     
  5. This was very, very good!! I may try doing a whole snapper and stuff it with the mixture.
     
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Tweaks

  1. Love this recipe!!! What a great way to use fish!! I am unable to eat garlic due to an allergy :( but my husband and I still found this flavorful without it. I also subbed out Kalamata olives for black ones, and I added green olives instead of capers (personal preferrence). We also loved the heat of the red pepper in it. Served it over a bed of white rice, absolutely delicious! I think I may also try adding some feta as mentioned, sounds good!
     
  2. I personally thought this was great. My husband and son were ambivalent. I may not have used enough tomatoes -- I was trying to use up cherry tomatoes from my garden. I subbed Kalamata olives for the black olives and a little feta cheese too as other reviewers suggested. I also added some white wine to make it a little "saucier" since my fresh tomatoes weren't as juicy. All in all a good recipe that would probably be good for company.
     
  3. Tandy is the word. Wife exclaimed "It's a keeper, put it in the recipe book". Substituted 14.5 oz can of diced tomatoes for the 5 whole canned tomatoes. Thank you for the recipe.
     

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