Recipe: Red Snapper with Tomatoes and Capers

This is one of my favorite fish dishes because it is so easy to make and really tastes great. You can use any other type of mild, firm, white-fleshed fish (such as grouper or halibut) as a substitute for the snapper.

Food weight: 3.0

Ingredients

Yield:  4 servings (serving size: 438 grams or ¼ of the snapper plus ~ 1 cup sauce)

·         4 (6-ounce) red snapper fillets

·         1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil

·         1 onion, cut in half and sliced

·         4 garlic cloves, sliced thinly

·         2 (14.5 ounce) cans of diced tomatoes

·         2 tablespoons drained capers

·         8 kalamata olives, pitted and sliced

·         Juice from ½ a lemon

·         1 teaspoon dried basil

·         1 teaspoon dried oregano

·         Freshly ground black pepper to taste (I use ¼ teaspoon)

Directions

Preheat oven to 450°F. In a large skillet, add olive oil and heat over medium high heat. Add onion and garlic and cook until onion is translucent and slightly brown. Add in tomatoes, capers, olives, lemon juice and spices and stir. Bring to a boil and reduce heat to a simmer. Cook an additional 5 minutes. In the meantime, spray a large baking dish with non stick cooking spray. Add fish to baking dish. Top fish with tomato mixture and bake uncovered for approximately 10 minutes until fish flakes easily with a fork.

Nutritional Information Per Serving (1/4 of the recipe):
Food weight: 3.0, Calories: 281, Fat: 8 g, Cholesterol: 63 mg, Sodium: 921 mg,
Carbohydrate: 15 g, Dietary Fiber: 1 g, Sugars: 8 g, Protein: 38 g