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Fish In Sour Cream

This recipe was for pike or perch and also for salt herring, but white salt-water fish like halibut, haddock, and cod are used today.

Cuisine: Jewish
Type: Fish
Courses: Main Course
Serves: 4 people

Recipe Ingredients

4   Fish steaks or pieces of fillet
2 tablespoons 30mlButter
2 tablespoons 30mlLight vegetable oil
  Salt - to taste
  Freshly-ground black pepper - to taste
  Juice of 1/2 lemon
1 cup 237mlSour cream

Recipe Instructions

Fry the fish very briefly in a sizzling mixture of butter and oil for 2 minutes on either side, turning the pieces over once. Season with salt and pepper and arrange in a baking dish. Pour the lemon juice and sour cream over them and bake for 15 minutes in a preheated 400 degree oven.

This recipe yields 4 servings.

Source:
THE BOOK OF JEWISH FOOD: AN ODYSSEY FROM SAMARKAND TO NEW YORK by Claudia Roden (c) 1996 - Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY - 668 pages - $35.00 - As reprinted in the Sep/Oct, 1997 issue of Cookbook Digest

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