Cooking traditional gefilte fish in a pepper tomato sauce makes for a tasty and unique way to serve gefilte fish. Served hot or cold, this appetizer comes together quickly when you start with a premade defrosted loaf of gefilte fish.
Instead of boiling and smelling up your kitchen, you just shape and bake.
Tomato Gefilte Fish
Servings
8 Servings
Ingredients
- 1 onion
- 1 small red pepper chopped
- 1 small green pepper chopped
- 1 clove garlic crushed and chopped
- 1 loaf prepared frozen gefilte fish defrosted in fridge
- 1 6-ounce can tomato paste
- 2 cups boiling hot water
- ¼ cup sugar
- Kosher salt to taste
- Freshly cracked black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F, grease a 9×13-inch baking dish.
- Sauté onions, peppers, and garlic for 3 minutes in a large sauté pan.
- While vegetables are sautéing in pan, form gefilte fish into eight medium size patties. Place in 9×13-inch baking dish.
- Add tomato paste, water, sugar, salt, and black pepper to sauté pan with peppers. Mix well.
- Pour sauce over fish. Cover tightly with foil and bake in preheated oven for 1 hour and 45 minutes. Cool and store in the fridge until ready to serve, at least 4 hours.
great tip/reminder
Remember when cooking anything with tomato, or lemon juice or vinegar, always place a sheet of parchment paper between food and layer of foil covering it….