Continental Cod

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Cooking time: About 6 minutes
Prep time: About 5 minutes

Makes: 2 servings

    

Ingredients

• 8 oz.    2 cod fish (or tilapia) fillets.
• 1         dash of salt and pepper
• 1 T.     mild olive oil

• 1          Romano tomato, diced (or 1 T. diced jalepena peppers)
• 2          olives, sliced thinly (or 2 t. capers)
• 1/2 t.    dried basil, crushed
• 1/4 t.    dried thyme, crushed

    

Directions

1. Dry the fish and sprinkle both sides of fillets with salt and pepper.
2. Heat olive oil in heavy skillet until hot but not smoking.
3. Add fish and cook 1 minute on each side.
4. Top fish with sliced olives (or capers), diced tomato (or peppers) and thyme. Cover and cook 2 minutes.
5. Top with basil. Cover and cook 2 minutes more until you can flake fish with a fork.

Modified from recipe collected 1/9/2002 at Andronico's Market, Berkeley. CA
Updated 11/29/22 to use tilapia, jalepena peppers and capers rather than tomato and olives.

 

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