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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  African >> Northern Africa >> Moroccan

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Take a small nonstick skillet heated to meddium high heat and coat with cooking spray. Add lemon, 1 tbls. water, 1/2 teaspoons oil, and sugar and cook 3 minutes or until water evaporates and mixture just begins to brown, stirring frequently. Set aside. | 2. Put remaining 2 1/2 tsps. oil in a small microwave safe bowl. Microwave at High for 10 seconds, just until oil is heated. Add saffron and let stand 10 minutes. | 3. Combine lemon mixture, saffron mixture, chopped parsley, cilantro, salt, paprika, cumin, black pepper, olives, and garlic cloves in a large zip lock plastic bag. Add fish to bag and seal. Marinate in refrigerator 30 minutes, turning occasionally. | 4. Preheat oven to 400*F. | 5. Saute the onions in the 1 tbls. olive oil for a few minutes to bring out the flavor. | 6. Layer 1 cup of the onion slices and 2 cups tomatoes on the bottom of a 13"x9" baking dish coated with cooking spray. Take the fish out of bag, reserving marinade. Top tomato with fish; pour remaining marinade from bag over fish. Cover with remaining 2 cups tomatoes and remaining 1 cup onion. Cover with foil. Bake at 400*F. for 40 minutes or until fish flakes easily when tested with a fork. Remove from oven. | 7. Move fish and vegetables to a serving platter. Drizzle remaining liquid over fish. | 8. Garnish with cilantro leaves, if desired. Serve immediately. Enjoy! | 9. Makes 4 servings. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
cooking spray				-	-	-	-
lemon	2	tablespoons	chopped	7.685	2.4698	0.2915	0.0795
water	1	tablespoon		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
olive oil	1	tablespoon	divided	119.34	0.0	0.0	13.5
sugar	1	teaspoon		18.354	4.5908	0.0	0.0
saffron thread	1/8	teaspoon	crushed	-	-	-	-
flat leaf parsley	4	tablespoons	chopped	-	-	-	-
cilantro	4	tablespoons	chopped	0.92	0.1468	0.0852	0.0208
salt	3/4	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
paprika	3/4	teaspoon	sweet	4.8645	0.9313	0.2439	0.2224
cumin	1/2	teaspoon		3.9375	0.4645	0.187	0.2338
black pepper	1/4	teaspoon		1.4432	0.3677	0.0597	0.0187
green olive	12		pitted sliced	-	-	-	-
garlic clove	3		minced	13.41	2.9754	0.5724	0.045
halibut	1 1/2	1/2		618.8014	0.0	126.2083	9.044
onion	2	cups	sliced	128.0	29.888	3.52	0.32
extra virgin olive oil	1	tablespoon		-	-	-	-
tomato	4	cups	seeded chopped	107.28	23.1844	5.2448	1.192
cilantro leaf				0.92	0.1468	0.0852	0.0208

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.