Fried Fish with Puerto Rican Sauce

Name: Fried Fish with Puerto Rican Sauce (Mojo Isleño)
Cuisine: Puerto Rican
Ingredients: 2½ pounds onions, peeled, sliced and halved; ½ cup olive oil; 1 large clove garlic, peeled and crushed; 2 bay leaves; 4 pounds fish slices, 1 inch thick; 4 teaspoons salt; 1 cup olive oil; 1 can (4 ounces) pimientos, cut in tiny slices, in their juice; 2 cans (8 ounces each) tomato sauce; 2 tablespoons vinegar; 1 tablespoon salt; 1½ cups water; 24 olives, stuffed with pimientos; 24 olives, stuffed with pimientos; 2 tablespoons capers

Mojo Isleño

Preparation info

Serves
12

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Puerto Rican Cookery

By Carmen Aboy Valldejuli

Published 1983

About

Ingredients

A

½ cup olive oil
2½ pounds onions, peeled, sliced and halved
1½

Americas
Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free
Puerto Rico
Caribbean

Method

Prepare sauce by mixing ingredients included in A, cover and cook over moderate heat for 30 minutes. Then uncover and continue cooking for 30 minutes more.
When sauce is nearly done, season fish with salt included in B and fry as follows:
Put oil and garlic included in B into a frying pan. Brown garlic over moder