Pollock baked with a sauce of bright and juicy vegetables is not only beautiful but also very tasty. Fish, soaked in vegetable juice, turns out to be very tender and aromatic. Thanks to hot peppers, lemon juice, and basil, the dish turns out with interesting spicy notes. Cook to your health!

Summary

Ingredients

• Pollock fillet – 500 g
• Sweet red pepper – 70 g (1 pc.)
• Tomatoes – 160 g (2 pcs.)
• Onions – 60 g (0.5 pcs.)
• Garlic – 1 clove
• Fresh basil – 1 bunch
• Lemon (juice) – 0.5 pcs.
• Hot red pepper – 1.5-2 cm (to taste)
• Ground turmeric – 0.5 teaspoon
• Salt to taste
• Ground black pepper – to taste
• Olive oil – 2 tbsp

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Instructions

1. Cut the tomatoes crosswise, pour boiling water for 50-60 seconds, and put them in cold water.
2. Then we peel the tomatoes.
3. Cut the peeled tomatoes into small cubes.
4. Cut the sweet pepper in half, remove the stem and seeds. Cut the pepper into small cubes. Grind a piece of hot pepper without seeds with a knife.
5. Chop the onion and garlic into small pieces.
6. Heat 1 tablespoon in a frying pan. spoon of olive oil and put onion and garlic.
7. Add a pinch (to taste) of hot pepper and, stirring, fry for 1-2 minutes.
8. Add bell peppers and turmeric to the pan, reduce heat and fry for 5 minutes.
9. Add tomatoes.
10. Squeeze the juice from the lemon and pour it into the pan. Add a couple of tablespoons of water.
11. Add black pepper to the pan, salt to taste, and simmer for 10 minutes. In parallel, we turn on the oven to heat up to 180 degrees.
12. We leave a little basil for serving. Cut the remaining basil into thin strips, add to the vegetables and turn off the heat. The fish sauce is ready.
13. Grease the baking dish with the remaining oil. Put pollock fillet on the bottom, cut into portions, salt, and pepper to taste.

    

14. Pour the fish on top with vegetable sauce and send it to the oven preheated to 180 degrees. We bake for 20 minutes.
15. The baked fish in sweet pepper and tomato sauce is ready.

    

16. Put the pollock fillet pieces together with the vegetable sauce on plates, decorate with basil and serve.

Enjoy your meal!