Croatian Fish €œbrodetâ€?

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 1000 g fish (better vatious fish,cod-fish, sea-bass and similar, or crabs, shrimps etc.)
• 4 tablespoons olive oil
• 3 large onions, finely minced
• 3 garlic cloves, finely minced
• 1 bay leaf
• 5 g raisins
• 1 teaspoon vinegar
• 500 g tomatoes (strained or 3-4 whole fresh tomatoes, very finely minced)
• 1 teaspoon salt (to taste)
• 1 teaspoon black peppercorns (or just to taste)
• 1 tablespoon fresh parsley leaves (minced)
• 1 tablespoon sugar (to taste)

Recipe

• 1 for this meal you have to have large round pot with low rim.
• 2 put olive oil in a pot and sauté the onion until it is soft.
• 3 put fish in (if it is too big cut it in portions), fry very shortly. add vinegar and cook gently for 2 more minutes.
• 4 add garlic and bay leaf. do not stir with any kind of ladle, just shake the whole pot (if you have wooden flat ladle, you may move fish a bit).
• 5 add tomato, salt, pepper, raisins and water to cover fish.
• 6 cook open for 50-60 minute on not too strong fire.
• 7 add water if evaporates too quickly.
• 8 try it: if it's too sour, add sugar.
• 9 at the end add parsley leaves and some more olive oil.
• 10 serve with hard corn mush (polenta, as we say).