Thursday, January 21, 2010

Pescado en Salsa Verde (Fish in Green Sauce)

As some of you may recall, my husband went on his annual guys’ fishing trip at the end of the summer. Well, that was over four months ago, and there is still some fish in the freezer. This recipe was picked to help eliminate yet another bag of frozen fish filets – this time, 1 ½ pounds of triggerfish. For those of you wondering, like I did when I sat down to blog, triggerfish is ballesta in Spanish (thanks to my friends Gus and Lourdes for the translation).

And, in case you’re wondering, the fish was still good. I think the six month mark is the end of the frozen fish lifeline, I’ve heard.

I don’t know if it’s the way I’m jumping around the book lately, but this is one easy recipe. There are two key steps to this recipe: having fresh or thawed out fish ready and having your food processor clean and ready to roll.

Recipe #100: Pescado en Salsa Verde

pescado en salsa verde ingredients

Put the following in the food processor: a garlic clove, a cup of olive oil, a slice of onion, a cup of Peter Hill (ok, perejil, parsley, but I had to say Peter Hill like my father in law loves to say), a teaspoon of salt, two Tablespoons of vinegar and half a cup of dry white wine.

before mixing

If you want to be fancy, you can add the oil like they do on TV, through that hole in the food processor while the rest of the ingredients mix away.

add the oil

Then, you have salsa verde.

green salsa

Once you’ve got the green sauce ready, you put the fish filets in a hot pan and cover with the green sauce. Don’t touch them.

pour the salsa

When the sauce starts to boil, cover the pan and lower the heat to low for 15 minutes.

Serve with killer white rice and you’ve guaranteed that while the guys are all salty and gross during their next fishing trip, they’ll be thinking of this dish when they bring home the very clean and very neatly bagged fish filets. Hint, hint, honey. This one is definitely meant to be repeated.

pescado en salsa verde


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