Middle Eastern Monkfish
- 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
- Finely chop garlic and gingerroot together.
- In a small bowl, stir oil into tomato paste. Stir in garlic and ginger mixture, cinnamon, and caraway seeds. Season with salt and pepper.
- Remove fine skin from monkfish, then spread on the spice mixture.
- Place fish into a shallow dish. Cover and refrigerate for 1 - 1 1/2 hours.
- Preheat oven to 400.
- Cut a piece of foil large enough to enclose fish.
- Make a bed of chopped onions on the foil. Place monkfish and any spice paste left in the dish on top of onion.
- Fold foil loosely over fish and seal edges tightly.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes.
- Open foil and baste fish. Bake another 10-15 minutes until fish flakes.
garlic, gingerroot, olive oil, tomato paste, ground cinnamon, caraway, salt, pepper, monkfish, onion
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/middle-eastern-monkfish-173663 (may not work)