The secret sauce in this recipe is the matbucha, you can buy it in the store or make your own sheet pan matbucha. This is how to get that authentic flavor without all the work to make chraime fish.
This is also one of the few fishes that actually reheats well.
Make our whole oven baked Shabbat in an hour menu and get the Game Plan.
For a different take on this recipe use 2 tablespoons Jamie Geller Chraime spice blend in place of the cumin, turmeric, coriander, salt and sugar.
Oven Baked Moroccan Fish
Servings
6 Servings
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 1 15-ounce can chickpeas
- 8 garlic cloves left whole
- 1 8-ounce container matbucha
- ½ cup tomato sauce
- 1 tablespoon cumin
- 1 teaspoon turmeric
- 1 teaspoon coriander
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 6 fillets of fish tilapia, salmon, halibut all work
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Line a large baking dish with parchment if desired for easy clean up.
- Pour evoo into pan, top with chickpeas, garlic, matbucha, tomato sauce, cumin, turmeric, coriander, salt, and sugar. Mix well.
- Arrange fillets in a single layer on top of sauce. Spoon some of the sauce over the fish, so fish is coated in sauce.
- Bake uncovered for 25 minutes. Serve warm.
Yes but if you cook it as a one large piece it will take a longer to cook all the way through.
Can you just use one long filet of salmon that you get frozen from the supers in Israel? (It comes with skin)
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This dish is the reason I’m still alive today it is that good. It is quick, it is easy, it is literally three steps and my whole family loves it. Shabbat is NOTHING without this fish dish I would not enjoy it even if moshiach came and he didn’t bring this fish recipe with him. Every day that is not a day that I am eating this recipe I am dreaming about the next shabbat when I will enjoy it. If this fish recipe has 10000 fans I am one of them. If this fish recipe had one fan it is me. If this fish recipe had 0 fans I wouldn’t have been born because the world would have been too dark a place to be born into. When I teach my children tikkun olam it will be through this recipe. This recipe could single handedly solve all of the world’s problems if everyone would just come to my shabbat table when I make this fish. Jamie if you told me that the manna the Israelites ate was actually this fish I would believe you. I am so in love with this recipe I would eat it for the rest of my life. I’m only upset that I can’t pass it off as my own. I hope one day when you are on your deathbed you remember this comment and know the positive impact you’ve created in the world. You and your children and your children’s children are forever in my prayers.
Absolutely Delicious
Thank you