Fried fish with puerto rican sauce (mojo isle

12 Servings

Ingredients

QuantityIngredient
½cupOlive oil
poundsOnions, peeled and sliced
cupWater
24Stuffed olives with pimientos
2tablespoonsCapers
1can4 oz pimientos, cut in tiny slices in their juice
2cans(8 oz) tomato sauce
2tablespoonsVinegar
1tablespoonSalt
2Bay leaves
4poundsFish slices 1 inch thick white meat fish \"Chillo\"
2tablespoonsSalt
1cupOlive oil
4largesCloves garlic, peeled and crushed

Directions

SAUCE (A

THE REST (B

Let's start with some fish (this is a normal all year around recipe.): 1. Prepare sauce by mixing ingredients (A) and cooking over modearte heat about 1 hour.

2. When sauce is nearly done, season fish with salt included in B and slightly cover with flour and fry as follows: Put oil and garlic into a frying pan. Brown garlic over moderate heat. Remove garlic and place in the pan as many slices of fish fit on it. Brown at moderate heat on both sides, reduce heat to low and cook for 15 minutes or until fish flakes easily when tested with fork Fry remaining fish the same way.

3. Place fish in a mold and cover with hot sauce and let it stand for 5 minutes.

Ricardo Landrau, Carolina PR, Fidonet 1:367/28