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Mom’s Roasted Fish with Heirloom Cherry Tomatoes (paleo)

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This is the recipe I ask for my mom to make every.single.time I come home. A beautiful piece of fish - usually salmon - is roasted in herbs and topped with blistered cherry tomatoes. It’s simple and absolutely delicious.

fish I had some awesome San Francisco moments this weekend so far - Friday night beautiful sunset yoga in the Mission, helping a friend prepare for Burning Man, getting my nails done next to DIANE FEINSTEIN, BBQing in the fog at Crissy Field. And now I’m relaxing on a friend’s couch while I dogsit their wonderful golden retriever pup who just got his big boy surgery.

On another note…I’ve wanted to share this recipe with you for some time. I have a full repertoire of OK photos that I put together of times that my mother has made this dish and they really didn’t do it justice! I wish I could claim this as a DCC original recipe, but it’s all Mama DCC. Roasted Fish with Heirloom Cherry Tomatoes | danicaliforniacooks.com My mom is an excellent cook, and she was one of my first examples of someone who really LOVED food. Talking about food, making food, bringing people together around food, and of course - eating the food. She made me and my brother breakfast, lunch, and dinner for 18 years before we shipped off to college and whenever we return home there are a couple of dishes that we request. Isaac always asks for her chicken pesto pasta with sundried tomatoes and asparagus. fish3 This salmon, in recent years, has been my #1 request. I’m going home for Labor Day, and THIS IS NOT A HINT AT ALL that I hope this is waiting for me when I get back from the airport. Nope. No hinting here. And this certainly isn’t a test to see if Mom really reads my blog… fish5 Just kidding. I know she reads it.

She usually does this dish with salmon, and serves it with an arugula salad and some roasted yukon gold potatoes or brown rice. I’ve made this a couple of times on my own, and served it with this warm Honey Mustard Potato Salad and this Kale and Brussels Sprouts Salad with Pinenuts. It’s a crowd-pleasing dish that looks beautiful to serve, everyone can kind of choose their own portion size, and I have never seen anyone who did not enjoy it. It’s also gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free, paleo-friendly - perfect for serving a group who may have a variety of allergies. This version that I have for you here is made with halibut, and was equally delicious as Mom’s usual salmon.

fish2 Anyways, I hope you can find a way to fit this into your repertoire and family traditions as well. It’s truly become my go-to, so thanks, Mom!

Mom's Roasted Fish with Heirloom Cherry Tomatoes
 
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This is the recipe I ask for my mom to make every.single.time I come home. A beautiful piece of fish - usually salmon - is roasted in herbs and topped with blistered cherry tomatoes. It's simple, paleo-friendly, and absolutely delicious.
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Serves: 4 servings
Ingredients
  • 1½ lbs of fish, a little under ½ lb per person
  • 1 tbsp chopped fresh basil
  • 1 tbsp chopped fresh parsley
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • Juice of one lemon, plus more for serving
  • Salt and pepper
  • 2 cups of heirloom cherry tomatoes (or regular cherry tomatoes)
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F
  2. In a baking dish, place the cherry tomatoes and coat with a little olive oil and salt and pepper
  3. Roast until the tomatoes are blistered and almost blackened - this usually takes about 30-45 minutes
  4. Remove from oven and set aside
  5. Place fish on parchment paper on a baking dish, and rub in the olive oil into its flesh. Squeeze the juice of one lemon over the fish
  6. Sprinkle on the basil and parsley, and top with a little salt and pepper
  7. Let "marinate" for about 20 minutes, while turning the oven to 425 degrees F
  8. Put into the oven, and roast for about 15 minutes, until medium rare
  9. Remove from the oven and place the fish on a platter, and top with the tomatoes
  10. Serve with more basil and lemon wedges
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  7. My mom cooked breakfast, lunch, and dinner for us when we were young too. I don’t know how she managed to get anything else done. My husband and I enjoy a baked fish, tomato, and onion dinner every once in a while. It is a dinner I can feel really good about. This is right up our alley! Really, I should be eating this once a week! love the charred cherry tomatoes.
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  11. Hi Dani! I’m so happy I came to visit your blog - your recipes and photography are so nourishing and delicious! This recipe excites me like nothing else - the sheer simplicity and flavor involved radiates from within. How beautiful are those blistered tomatoes on top of that lovely fish? I love salmon so much - and to couple it with your potatoes and brussel sprouts sounds like such a satisfying and wonderful meal. Really excited to follow you along, it’s a pleasure to meet you! ♥
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