This Brazilian Fish Bake recipe from Jamie Oliver's Super Food Family Classics
I have been a huge fan of Jamie Oliver ever since I started cooking. I love the fresh flavours, the down-to-earth approach and more recently, his focus on healthy recipes. First there was Everyday Super Food
A recipe inspired by the Olympics!
The Olympics was on when I made this dish and I was looking for a Brazilian recipe to make. As soon as I saw the bright colours of the vegetables and the scattering of herbs over the fish, I knew it would make me feel healthy and energetic. Although unfortunately not quite turn me into an Olympic athlete!
This Brazilian Fish Bake is so easy to prepare!
There's something about tomatoes, peppers, red onions and chilli peppers that just feels like summer. And so this Brazilian Fish Bake was the perfect summer tray bake. It's so easy to prepare as you just need to slice the vegetables, layer everything up and put it in the oven.
How I adapted this fish recipe from Jamie Oliver's recipe
My tray bake was a little different from Jamie's. I've got a shellfish allergy so of course I left them out. Rather than using a mixture of fish and seafood, I just used haddock fillets. I left them whole rather than chopping them up as Jamie had done.
I'm sure any white fish or mixture of shellfish and fish would work well. The other difference was mainly aesthetic. My tomatoes were all red rather than mixed colours but I still got a lovely vibrant dish in the end. We really enjoyed it and were almost licking the plates clean!
Easy Tray Bakes
The Brazilian fish bake recipe came from the tray bakes section of the book and I did like this section. As Little Miss Spice is about to start school, I know that tray bakes are going to become very popular for tea.
They are great to prepare in advance and then just put in the oven at the right time. And of course lots of these types of meals will have enough leftovers for another day too so are perfect for batch cooking. By the way, do check out my Cook Once Eat Twice recipe collection for easy batch cooking ideas.
Another recipe I made from the Tray Bakes chapter was the Chicken & Chorizo Bake. It was the first recipe I made and I'm afraid I haven't got a great picture of it but we loved it.
The chorizo sauce makes the chicken and potatoes so tasty and the children gobbled it up too. The only issue I had was that some of the potatoes were still a little bit hard so I would cook it for a bit longer next time before adding the chicken.
My children loved these Jamie Oliver recipe too!
One of the best things about this book is that my children were happy to try the recipes too. They can both be quite picky and often they will just refuse to try something that I know they would like if only they would taste it. It may be that this is just the right time and they are growing up a little.
As I said earlier, Little Miss Spice is about to start school. So, after the last few weeks and her growing adventurousness, I am feeling quite positive that one day soon we might all be able to eat the same thing.
Another success was these smoked salmon poached eggs. The children helped me wrap them in cling film before poaching and it was the first time in a long time that I'd been able to get Little Miss Spice to eat egg.
More of the recipes we tried in Super Food Family Classics
The only vegetable that Little Miss Spice will normally eat is tomatoes but she now loves chickpeas and will eat cauliflower if it's in a curry sauce after I made this Veggie Gurkha Curry. The fact that both children will eat curries make me very happy indeed!
From time to time I do buy rye bread but it's not a real favourite of mine. However, in Super Food Family Classics
With so many options I just had to try one! I made this lovely cream cheese, avocado, chilli pepper and toasted sunflower seeds combo. I loved the topping and although I didn't mind the rye bread, I think I'll stick with putting it on top of my favourite seeded loaf in future.
Easy Recipe with Easy to Find Ingredients
These are the only recipes I've made so far but there are a lot more that I really do want to make. The pictures are drool-worthy and like many of Jamie Oliver's books, I look through it and want to eat almost everything I see!
The ingredients for these recipes are easy to find in the supermarket. Also, if you are trying to count calories or be aware of your sugar or fat intake then each recipe contains the nutritional information It's great not to have to work it out yourself!
There is also a Health and Happiness chapter at the end. It explains Jamie Oliver's philosophy and approach to healthy eating in a simple and straightforward way that makes healthy eating seem an achievable goal.
Finally I would just like to share the recipe for my slightly adapted version of Jamie Oliver's Brazilian Fish Bake.
Recipe
Brazilian Fish Bake
Ingredients
- 3 pieces of fish
- ½ lemon
- ½ lime
- Black pepper
- pinch Salt
- 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
- 2 peppers I used 1 red,1 yellow
- 1 red onion sliced into rings
- 3 tomatoes sliced
- 1 chilli pepper
- 200 ml coconut milk
- 15 g Small bunch of coriander
- Rice to serve
- Yoghurt to serve optional
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C
- Put the fish in a bowl and grate the zest of the lemon and lime over the fish. Then squeeze the juice over the top. Add the paprika and a little salt and pepper. Rub into the fish well.
- Lightly oil an ovenproof dish. Put a layer of tomatoes on the bottom then a layer of peppers and onions. Put the fish on top. Top with the remaining vegetables.
- Pour over the coconut milk and any of the extra lemon and lime juice from the dish the fish was in. Top with the sliced chilli pepper and some of the chopped coriander.
- Cover the dish with foil and bake in the oven for 20 minutes. Take the foil off and continue baking for another 15 minutes.
- Serve with rice, a little extra coriander and a dollop of yoghurt on the side.
Notes
Nutrition
More Recipes you might like
If you love Brazilian recipes then why not try my Brazilian chicken stew as well?
You might also like my baked cod with a chorizo crust, my spicy fish pakoras or my Alaska pollock stir fry!
Places I'm sharing this Brazilian Fish Bake
I am linking this to #CookBlogShare hosted this week by Eb at Easy Peasy Foodie.
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DrPond (@MissPond)
Wow that looks delicious! My OH and I both have very demanding jobs so tray bakes are always a winner for us so I'll be pinning this for later 🙂
Corina
Thanks! I do hope you both enjoy it!
Eb Gargano
There is a traybakes section???? I need that book!! Actually it's been on my wishlist for a while - I loved the first superfood one - so up my street, but this one sounds even more my kind of thing...especially if there is a whole section of traybakes!! This Brazillian Fish Bake looks gorgeous - I love the colours!! Bet it tasted fab too. Thank you so much for linking it up to #CookBlogShare 🙂 Eb x
Corina
Oh Eb you would love all the traybakes! And it's also got a curries and stews section!
Eb Gargano
Oooh now that really really sounds like my kind of book!! Xx
Culinary Flavors
I love eating my fish with vegetables! it looks delicious!
Corina
Thank you Kristina! I'm so pleased you like it.