Healthy Fish Dish

After all the fattening food in my last posts, here is something healthy, tasty and easy to make!

Recipe courtesy of my dear old mama....

Ingredients

1 catfish fillet or two if small. can use any other type of white fish fillets.
1 spring onion
1 large tomato
few leaves fresh basil
1 lemon slice
sea salt and freshly ground pepper to taste.
olive oil, extra virgin, cold pressed.

Method:
Wrap fish in pouch of parchment paper and top with white part of spring onion,and sprinkle with lemon juice.

Lightly steam fish in microwave for two minutes.

Slice two rounds from tomato for decoration use and chop the rest roughly, add salt and pepper and chopped basil leaves.
Serve fish decorated with the tomato rounds, the chopped tomatoes the lemon round cut in half, decorate with sprig of basil, check seasoning and sprinkle with a thin stream of olive oil.
Enjoy!

Antipasto di Melanzane - eggplant/aubergine dip

Aubergines/Eggplant/melanzane are abundant in the Mediterranean. This was a favourite dip to make in summer.

INGREDIENTS

I large aubergine

1 bunch of parsley - chopped

2 large garlic cloves, crushed

2 teaspoons pesto (see my recipe)

1 tbs breadcrumbs

Juice of 1/2 lemon

1/2 cup Olive Oil

Salt and pepper

METHOD

Set over to 200C for 1/2 hour

Make a cut in the aubergine and put on a grilling plate in the oven.

Put in the oven for about 1/2 hr when the inside should be soft and easy to spoon out

Put the pulp into a blender together with the rest of the ingredients until the mixture looks like a dense cream.

Leave in the fridge for a day and serve with a drizzle of olive oil and a garnish of basil

Melanzane Alla Parmiggiana- parmesan aubergine-eggplant

Ingredients

1 Kg egg plant(aubergine)
100 gr. grated parmisan cheese
200 gr. mozzarella- grated

2 cans tomatoes
some flour
2 onions
Garlic

basil
Olive Oil


Method:

Cut the eggplant lengthwise, salt slightly, place aluminum foil on top and a weight ( a cook book!)

Let stay for about an hour.
In the meantime, fry onions and garlic in olive oil. add the tomatoes and herbs and let simmer for about 30 mins.
Pre heat the oven to 180C or 380F
Rinse the egg plant and fry gently untill almost cooked.
Layer the vegetables with mozzarella, sauce and grated cheese ending with a layer of mozzarella
Cook for about 30 mins

YUMMY!!!