Baked Fish with Creole Sauce

This tomato-based Creole sauce includes onion, green pepper, and spices to liven up the fish of your choice.
Ingredients
- 1 pound fish fillets (fresh or frozen, unbreaded)
- 1/2 onion (thinly sliced)
- 1/2 green pepper (thinly sliced)
- 1 can tomato sauce (8 ounce)
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- salt (1/4 teaspoon, optional)
Directions
1. Thaw fish in refrigerator overnight.
2. Preheat oven to 375 °F.
3. Arrange fish in a single layer in baking dish.
4. Top fish with onion and pepper slices.
5. In a separate bowl, mix tomato sauce, chili powder, salt, and pepper.
6. Pour tomato sauce mixture over fish and vegetables.
7. Cover dish and bake until fish flakes easily with a fork (20-30 minutes).
8. Refrigerate leftovers.
Notes
- Atlantic cod fillets used for nutrition analysis.
- If fish is more than one layer thick in baking dish, cooking time will be longer.
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