Fish With Onions

This Fish With Onions recipe is a traditional Albanian food. It is an oven-baked one with a unique and delicious taste.
We cook it in our family with various sea or lake fishes. This one is a baked sea fish recipe, which turns out much tasty cooked this way.

You can find fresh Qefull sea fish in the fish market during this period of the year. It comes in good quality and at an affordable price. This recipe is a delicious choice for a weekend to delight your family at a family lunch or dinner this weekend. You can serve it with toasted maize bread and your favorite seasonal salads.
It cooks with a few ingredients offering a unique and yummy taste.

You can also try our Oven Baked Sea Bass or Oven Baked Whole Fish.

Ingredients- 6 Servings

• 2 kg Qefull fish
• 2 kg onions
• 4-5 ripe tomatoes
• 2-3 tomato sauce or tomato puree
• 1 red pepper
• 1 tbsp of powder red pepper
• 5-6 garlic cloves
• 4-5 bay leaves
• oregano, mint
• salt, pepper, olive oil
• 1 tbsp butter
• 1 tbsp of flour

Directions

The cooking of onions

1. We clean Qefull fish, rinse it well and dry it with kitchen pepper. Marinate them with salt and pepper and keep them apart to cook the onion first.
2. Peel and dice the onions. In a deep pan, we will add olive oil and a spoonful of butter, and we will cook the onions with the lid covered at medium temperature to soften them. We will also add 3-4 finely chopped garlic cloves.
3. Cut the red pepper into small cubes and add it to the pan to cook together.
4. We will add the tomato sauce or tomato puree and mix again.
5. When the onion softens, we will add the grated or peeled and diced tomatoes. Add salt and pepper and let them cook together for a few minutes.
6. Add powdered pepper, bay leaves, oregano, fresh mint, salt, pepper, and a tablespoon of flour previously dissolved in water. The flour will help the casserole to thicken better. If you do not have very ripe tomatoes, and it turns out sour, you can add a pinch of sugar.
7. We add to the onion mixture a half glass of water to cook it well in the oven. The onion is ready to add to the baking pan.

Baking process

1. We will place the marinated fish in the baking pan by making two or three cuts with a knife in the back so that the fish gets the taste of onion and bake properly. On the belly of the fish, we place a clove of garlic and bay leaves.
   
2. Add the onion mixture, and bake it in a preheated oven at 200 degrees for 45-50 minutes until the onion cooks properly and all dish results in a little juice.
3. Serve it warm accompanied by toasted cornbread.

Bon Appetit!

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