Portuguese Baked Fish

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 1/2-2 lbs haddock fillets, can use cod, flounder etc
• salt, to taste
• pepper, to taste
• 4 tablespoons butter
• 1 large sweet onion, chopped
• 2 celery ribs, chopped
• 1 (15 ounce) can diced tomatoes, undrained
• 1/2 cup vegetable juice or 1/2 cup tomato juice
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1/2 teaspoon sugar
• 4 garlic cloves, crushed
• 1 bay leaf

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350.
• 2 lightly grease a baking dish. place fish fillets in the baking dish, lightly sprinkle w/ salt & pepper and set aside.
• 3 in a skillet, melt butter, then saute the onions, celery and tomatoes in butter until tender.
• 4 to skillet, add veg juice, lemon juice, sugar, garlic and bay leaf; cook over medium heat for 3 minutes.
• 5 remove bay leaf from sauce.
• 6 pour this sauce evenly over fish fillets in the baking dish.
• 7 bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes or until fillets are opaque.