Recipe compliments of Rick and Lynne
Lotte á la Provençal
Cuisine: French Type: Main Course Serves: 8
Source:
Sylvie Lallemand
Attributes:
Healthy
Comments:
Vegetarian choice for people who still eat fish.
Serving Suggestions:
Ingredients:
3 lbs. Chilean sea bass, monkfish, or other firm fleshed fish
2 onions, coursely chopped
2 cans (16 oz each) peeled tomatoes
1-1/2 cups coarsly chopped mushrooms
2 to 3 cloves chopped garlic
2 sprigs dried fennel
1 bay leaf
2 tbs. cognac
Salt, pepper, hot pepper sauce

Instructions:
Make a sauce:

1.Put the onions, garlic, and two-thirds of the mushrooms in a sauté pan. Cook a few minutes in vegetable oil. After softened, add the tomatoes, fennel, bay leaf, salt and pepper. Cook at a simmer for 15 minutes. Pass through a food mill (medium sized sieve). Add a dash of hot pepper sauce (or oil in which hot peppers marinade.)
Taste for seasonings and adjust.

Cook fish:

1. Brown the fish in a large pan in vegetable or sunflower oil 4-5 minutes per side.
2. Flambé with 2 tbs cognac. Move to a baking dish.
3. Saute remaining mushrooms in 1/4 cup of butter.
4. Put mushrooms over and around fish in baking dish. Pour on the sauce. Cook 15 minutes in a 400°F oven.
5. Serve with rice.

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2001-03-10