Middle Eastern Monkfish

Total Time: 2 hrs 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 garlic cloves
• 2 1/2 inches gingerroot
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 1/2 tablespoons tomato paste
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon caraway seed, crushed
• salt
• pepper
• 2 1/4 lbs monkfish
• 1/2 onion, finely chopped

Recipe

• 1 finely chop garlic and gingerroot together.
• 2 in a small bowl, stir oil into tomato paste. stir in garlic and ginger mixture, cinnamon, and caraway seeds. season with salt and pepper.
• 3 remove fine skin from monkfish, then spread on the spice mixture.
• 4 place fish into a shallow dish. cover and refrigerate for 1 - 1 1/2 hours.
• 5 preheat oven to 400.
• 6 cut a piece of foil large enough to enclose fish.
• 7 make a bed of chopped onions on the foil. place monkfish and any spice paste left in the dish on top of onion.
• 8 fold foil loosely over fish and seal edges tightly.
• 9 bake for 20-25 minutes.
• 10 open foil and baste fish. bake another 10-15 minutes until fish flakes.