Baked fish with tahini sauce – Lebanese tajine
Baked fish with tahini sauce – Lebanese tajine

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Pour the tahini sauce over the fish and top with the fried onions and roasted pine nuts. Serve at room temperature or cold with pita bread. Great recipe for Baked fish with tahini sauce - tagine samak bi tahini.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have baked fish with tahini sauce – lebanese tajine using 13 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Baked fish with tahini sauce – Lebanese tajine:
  1. Get 1 kg fish fillets, sush as hamour fish
  2. Get 1 lemon, cut in slices
  3. Prepare 4 medium onions, sliced
  4. Take 4 tablespoons raw pine nuts, roasted
  5. Prepare 4 tablespoons lemon juice
  6. Prepare 4 tablespoons olive oil
  7. Get 6 tablespoons vegetable oil
  8. Make ready 1 teaspoon salt
  9. Get For the tahini sauce
  10. Get 1 cup tahini, sesame paste
  11. Take 2 cloves garlic, crushed
  12. Make ready 8 tablespoons lemon juice
  13. Get 1 teaspoon salt

Whisk the tahini with ¼ cup of hot water and check the thickness of the mixture and add water or tahini till it gets creamy consistency. Add the minced garlic with olive oil and vinegar, or lemon juice and whisk the mixture. This quick, easy and delicious recipe for baked fish with tahini sauce is a favorite in my family. It is a variation on a classic Middle Eastern-North African recipe, with a few touches.

Steps to make Baked fish with tahini sauce – Lebanese tajine:
  1. Cut a piece of aluminum foil big enough to wrap the fish. Coat it with 2 tablespoons olive oil and put the fish fillets on it.
  2. Spread the lemon slices over the fillets then pour over the lemon juice and the rest of the olive oil. Add some salt.
  3. Wrap the aluminum foil around the fillets and put it in an oven tray.
  4. Cook the fish fillets, in a preheated oven for 10 min. Then turn them on the other side and let them cook for another 10 min.
  5. Remove tray from oven and let it cool.
  6. To prepare the tahini sauce, dissolve the tahini paste in 3/4 cup of water so it does not clot when adding the rest of the ingredients. Add the crushed garlic, lemon juice and salt. Mix well till you get a fluid homogenous sauce.
  7. In a pan, heat the vegetable oil and fry the sliced onions until they become tender. Remove the pan from heat.
  8. Cut the fish fillets into large pieces and put them in a serving dish. Pour the tahini sauce over the fish and top with the fried onions and roasted pine nuts. Serve at room temperature or cold with pita bread.
  9. Note: For an easier Tagine recipe, you can replace the fish with 3 tuna cans. In this case, drain the tuna and transfer it into the serving dish. Pour the tahini sauce over and top with the fried onions and pine nuts.
  10. You can find the recipe ‘Tahini sauce’ in this application.

Choose a white fish like snapper, tilapia or halibut. We've also made this with wild salmon. The tahini sauce will easily keep for a week, so save any. Then add water to get a creamy consistency. Sauté the onions in the oil till translucent.

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