Baked Cod With Horseradish Sauce

Name: Baked Cod With Horseradish Sauce
Yield: Serves Four
Cuisine: Ukrainian
Ingredients: 25 g/1 oz/2 tbsp butter 25 g/1 oz/¼ cup plain (all-purpose) flour, sifted; 150 ml/¼ pint/⅔ cup milk; 4 thick cod fillets or steaks; 15 ml/1 tbsp lemon juice; salt and ground black pepper; 30 ml/2 tbsp tomato purée (paste); 150 ml/¼ pint/⅔ cup fish stock; 30 ml/2 tbsp grated fresh horseradish; 250 ml/8 fl oz/1 cup sour cream; potato wedges and chopped spring onions (scallions), fried, to serve; parsley sprigs, to garnish

Preparation info

Serves
Four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Complete Guide to Traditional Jewish Cooking

By Marlena Spieler

Published 2016

About

This Ukrainian fish dish has travelled to Israel, to the American Jewish community and wherever else Ukrainian Jews have emigrated to. Baking fish in a sauce keeps it moist. Serve the creamy pink horseradish sauce on the side, as a condiment.

Ingredients

4 thick cod fillets or steaks
15 ml/1 tbsp lemon juice

Europe
Ukraine
Fish course
Pescatarian
Eastern Europe

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4. Place the fish in a buttered ovenproof dish in a single layer. Sprinkle with lemon juice.