Marinated Cod with Sweet Pepper and Garlic Sauce

Name: Marinated Cod with Sweet Pepper and Garlic Sauce
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 1½ lb/675 g filleted cod, sliced into neat dice about the size of a fingernail; Juice of 4 lemons; Pepper, salt and lemon juice to taste – I use the juice of half a lemon; Pepper, salt and lemon juice to taste – I use the juice of half a lemon; Pepper, salt and lemon juice to taste – I use the juice of half a lemon; Pepper, salt and lemon juice to taste – I use the juice of half a lemon; 2 red and 2 yellow peppers; 2 red and 2 yellow peppers; ¼ pint/140 ml extra virgin olive oil; 6 garlic cloves; Chopped coriander leaves or flat-leafed parsley, to garnish; Chopped coriander leaves or flat-leafed parsley, to garnish

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Claire Macdonald Cookbook

By Claire Macdonald

Published 1997

About

This is a most convenient first course as the whole thing is prepared in advance. The fish ‘cooks’ in the acid of the lemon juice.

Ingredients

1½ lb/675 g filleted cod, sliced into neat dice about the size of a fingernail
Juice of 4 lemons

Fish course
Starter
Pescatarian
Gluten-free
Summer

Method

Marinate the cod in the lemon juice for at least 4 hours.

Halve and de-seed the peppers and put them, skin sides uppermost, under a hot grill until the skin forms black blisters. Then put them into a polythene bag for 10 minutes, after which the skins should slip off easily. Simmer the cloves of garlic in their peppery skins for 5 minutes, then peel them.

Put the skinned pepper