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Baked Dory with Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto and Cheese

04.21.2014 by Leah // 13 Comments

I have a confession to make:  the only fish that I can cook is the dory fish!

I like that it’s readily available in the supermarket – cleaned and vacuum-sealed.  It doesn’t have tinik and most of all, hindi sya malansa.

During the lenten break last week,  I made sure to stock on some dory fish to cook at home since we decided not to go on a lenten ‘holiday’ this year.  I made use of the short break from work to clean up our rooms, and to get rid of office documents that somehow found their way into our home hehe!

I also made use of my free time to catch up on my readings.  I am finally done with The Monuments Men (super duper nice read!) but decided to give up An Abundance of Katherines k’se naiinip na ako sa ending hehe!  Next in my reading list is Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore.

Because I was obviously enjoying all the reading (with tea and biscuits at my side, of course), I looked for a dory fish recipe that’s easy-to-prepare and requires very minimal preparation steps.    I found one from The Eating Room, and it’s perfect because we have almost all the ingredients required in the recipe.

For this utterly delicious but surprisingly simple dory fish recipe, you will need:

  • a pack of dory fish (1 pack has 3 big pieces of dory fish)
  • 1 lemon
  • 1 bottle of sun-dried tomato pesto sauce (I used Gourmet Farms)
  • salt and pepper
  • 2 kinds of cheese (I used parmesan cheese and hamburger cheese)

1.  Start by slicing the lemon round and thin.

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2.  Line them up on a baking pan (we are using a convection oven so this 9-inch square pan that we got as gift last Christmas is perfect).

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3.  Season both sides of the dory fish with salt and pepper, then lay them on the lemon bed.  Generously pour the sun-dried tomato pesto sauce over the fish.

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4.  Make a layer of parmesan cheese, then top it with slices of hamburger cheese (you can make use of better cheese variety like mozarella or cheddar).

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5.  Finish off with another layer of parmesan cheese (yum!).

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6.  Bake at 350 F (around 180 C for convection oven).  The recipe called for 30-minutes baking time, but since we’re using a convection oven, we added 15 minutes more to the baking time to cook the fish completely.   We also removed the excess oil after 30 minutes, to maximize the heat.

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O di ba, mukhang lasagna lang? 

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It smelled wonderful, tasted wonderful and then wonderfully wiped off from our plates in a matter of minutes!

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Best paired with toasted baguette or any french bread.

Clearly, it’s another jackpot recipe that I’m sure will see a lot of ‘repeat’ in the coming months hehe!

Recipe sourced from Baked Dory in Red Pesto Sauce by The Eating Room.

 

Categories // Food Tags // dory fish, food, pesto, recipe, sun-dried tomato pesto, the joy of baking

Comments

  1. Aggie says

    April 22, 2014 at 12:29 am

    Same here. Cream dory’s one of only 2 fishes I cook, the other one being bangus–of the supermarket variety (not the freshly caught ones). It’s been a while though since I’ve cooked. @_@

    Reply
    • Leah says

      April 22, 2014 at 8:19 pm

      You can try this recipe, Aggie! Promise, madali lang sya gawin =)

      Reply
  2. Annie Lorraine says

    April 22, 2014 at 4:33 pm

    Ang sarap nitooooo!!!!

    Reply
    • Leah says

      April 23, 2014 at 12:19 pm

      Masarap na, madali pang gawin hehe! A fail-proof recipe, if I may add.

      Reply
  3. Juvs says

    April 23, 2014 at 7:46 am

    wow!! this one looks really good and easy.. will try this soon.. magugustuhan to ni deyoy.. 🙂

    Reply
    • Leah says

      April 23, 2014 at 12:19 pm

      Sana magustuhan din ni Liam hehe!

      Reply
  4. angie says

    May 7, 2014 at 5:02 am

    hi! happy to see your blog site. i love to cook….and this dory recipe sounds nice & easy. where can i buy the sun-dried tomato pesto? i just knew it now…coz of you. hehehe! hope to hear from u.

    Reply
    • Leah says

      May 7, 2014 at 10:00 pm

      Hi Angie! You can buy the sun-dried tomato pesto sauce from groceries =) We bought our from Gourmet Farms in Tagaytay.

      Reply
  5. Joanne says

    October 22, 2014 at 10:08 am

    This will be the very first thing that I will do once I got myself an electric oven 🙂

    Reply
    • Joanne says

      May 5, 2015 at 1:36 pm

      Finally got myself an oven 🙂 Took me 10 minutes to find this entry for the recipe.

      How are you Leah? It’s been a long time 🙂 Haven’t actively blogging and I still owe you my Palawan trip from last year 🙁

      Reply
      • Leah says

        May 9, 2015 at 3:34 am

        Hi Joanne! It’s nice to hear (or read) from you again hihi! I’m quite busy with office work these past few months, thus the lack of blog updates =)

        Reply
  6. Vangie says

    January 26, 2016 at 11:38 am

    Hi sis pede ko b xa lutuin s oven toaster since d p ako nakkabbili ng oven?

    Reply
    • Leah says

      January 27, 2016 at 12:54 pm

      Hindi po yata, iba ang heating capacity ng oven toaster eh. Mas mahina po.

      Reply

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