Mina's Baked Snapper

Ingredients

1 fish such as snapper
120 ml dry wine
140 gr gaeta olives
2 jalapenos
350 ml basic tomato sauce
1 slice head fennel
1 fronds set aside
1 bunch oregano leaves only
60 ml extra-virgin olive oil

Instructions

Preheat oven to 230ÂșC .

Clean and gut fish, remove top and bottom fins, scale and remove gills. Stand fish up in a shallow casserole, just large enough to hold the fish. Pour wine over fish and add olives, jalapenos, tomato sauce, fennel and oregano. Drizzle fish with olive oil, place in oven and cook until just cooked through, about 20 to 25 minutes. Remove, sprinkle with fennel fronds and serve immediately.

(An excellent contorno for this dish would be tiny potatoes, roasted with garlic and rosemary.)