Veracruz Tomato Sauce for Fish

Name: Veracruz Tomato Sauce for Fish
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: about 4½ cups (1100 ml)
Cuisine: Latin
Ingredients: ¼ cup EVOO (60 ml) Olive Oil; 6 garlic cloves Garlic; ~2 cups onion (480 ml) Onion; 2 lb plum tomatoes (907 g) Tomato; capers Capers; olives Olives; bay Bay Leaf; oregano Oregano; marjoram Marjoram; about 3 jalapenoes (45 g) Jalapeno; ½ tsp salt (2.5 ml) Salt; ¼ cup water (60 ml) Water

Independent adaptation of a publicly published Maricel Presilla recipe. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Maricel Presilla.

FINISHING SAUCE · FISH & SEAFOOD

In the published recipe, this is the finishing sauce for sauce for fish.

Presilla's Veracruz tomato sauce for fish.

On the jar

VERACRUZ

Method: stove
Yield: about 4½ cups
Ingredients: 12

Stove sauce. Cook from the recipe

Ratio

Olive Oil 60 mlOnion 480 mlSalt 3 mlWater 60 ml

Ingredients

Olive Oil¼ cup EVOO (60 ml)
Garlic6 garlic cloves
Onion~2 cups onion (480 ml)
Tomato2 lb plum tomatoes (907 g)
Caperscapers
Olivesolives
Bay Leafbay
Oreganooregano
Marjorammarjoram
Jalapenoabout 3 jalapenoes (45 g)
Salt½ tsp salt (2.5 ml)
Water¼ cup water (60 ml)

Method

This sauce is cooked on the stove. The jar is for storing it, not making it.
Cook ingredients gently according to the published technique, adapted here as pantry quantities only.
Finish off heat; adjust seasoning.

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Provenance

Maricel Presilla — published sauce recipes in the PantryFlex catalog. James Beard Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic 2012; James Beard Cookbook of the Year 2013 (Gran Cocina Latina).

Adapted from a Maricel Presilla recipe (Maricel Presilla / James Beard Foundation).

FAQ

Can this go in a shake jar?

No. This one needs a blender or stove, so make it from this page. Jars only carry pour-and-shake sauces. Its companion jar is below.

What do the quantities mean?

This page lists the published recipe in household units (with metric in parentheses). On a jar, the printed lines, counts, and QR guide carry the jar-batch amounts. Follow the jar or this page, not a mix of both. Amounts in the jar’s ADD row are rounded to the nearest common spoon measure (T = tablespoon, t = teaspoon) so they can be read off the glass.

Where did this recipe come from?

Adapted from Maricel Presilla / James Beard Foundation (published as “Veracruz Tomato Sauce for Fish”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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