Simple Fish Recipe

I'm on a budget these days with the economic turmoil that's out there so I picked up a few filets of tilapia at the store. It's a farm-raised, relatively inexpensive white fish. It's not my favorite of the flaky white fishes, as I generally prefer halibut, but it's versatile and pretty flavorful.

Anyway, because of the relative mildness of white fish, I like to make it with a sauce. I rummaged through my refrigerator and ended up stumbling upon a pretty good and very easy recipe. Here is what I did:

I used a small saucepan (example here) and sauteed three sliced shallots in about three tablespoons of olive oil. Once the shallots were soft and translucent, I added one chopped large tomato and let it cook down to the point that the skins started to separate from the tomato.

Then, I chopped up about 4 capers and 3 olives, and thinly sliced about a dozen marinated artichoke hearts. I added those ingredients to the pot along with a cup of dry vermouth. I prefer Cinzano. Let everything reduce for 10 minutes or so and you have your sauce.

I broil the fish filets in my favorite cast iron pans. I'll put up another post on that sometime soon.