Best Fish Baked In Foil With Pesto And Angel Hair Pasta Recipes

SEAFOOD PASTA IN A FOIL PACKAGE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• For the sauce: Cook the pasta for half the recommended cooking time; the pasta should still be very firm.
• In a skillet, cook the garlic in the butter and olive oil for a few minutes, and then pour in the wine. Allow this to reduce for a couple of minutes, and then pour in the tomatoes. Stir the mixture together, season with salt, pepper and red pepper flakes, and allow to cook for 10 minutes.
• For the seafood: In a separate skillet, heat the butter and olive oil over medium heat. Sear the scallops, then the shrimp, until they're nice and black/brown.
• Meanwhile, grab 2 large sheets of heavy duty aluminum foil and overlap them in a platter with a little depth. It should be large enough to hold the entire pasta dish.
• Mix the drained pasta with the sauce and tip it onto the foil. Then arrange the sauteed seafood on top. Tightly wrap the foil into a package.
• Bake for 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from the oven and keep warm until serving.
• To serve: Open the foil package right before serving. Drizzle warm cream over the top and sprinkle with torn basil and parsley.

BAKED FISH DUGLER-INI AND ANGEL HAIR PASTA

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• To a small skillet preheated over medium heat, add extra-virgin olive oil, onion and garlic. Cook onions 5 minutes, until translucent. Add wine to the pan and reduce for 30 seconds. Add tomatoes and break up the sliced stewed tomatoes with a wooden spoon as they heat through. When the sauce comes to a boil (2 or 3 minutes) remove it from the heat and stir in the parsley. Season the fish with salt and pepper. Pour a few spoonfuls of sauce into the bottom of a shallow baking dish. Add fish to the dish in a single layer. Add remaining sauce and bake 15 to 17 minutes until fish is firm and opaque.
• Remove fish to serving plate or dinner plates. Spoon a few bits of tomato and sauce over the fish. To the remaining sauce in the baking dish add 2 tablespoons butter cut into small pieces. Add hot pasta to butter and sauce and turn pasta in dish to coat evenly and to allow pasta to absorb juices. Pile pasta alongside fish and serve. If you are entertaining, try bundling portions of pasta around a large, 2-pronged meat fork, by twisting the fork in the pasta allowing it to curl up the fork. Shimmy the twisted pasta off the fork on to a plate you will create pasta "nests." This simple "twist" adds a lot to the plate presentation.

ANGEL HAIR PASTA WITH CREAMY PESTO

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350*F.
• Arrange the pine nuts on a cookie sheet lined with foil and roast in oven for 7 to 8 minutes.
• In a food processor, mix roasted pine nuts with the next 6 ingredients to form a paste.
• Blend in water to achieve desired consistency.
• Meanwhile, cook pasta according to package directions; drain and keep warm.
• The sauce can be refrigerated in a tightly covered container or frozen before serving, if desired.
• Serve pasta with sauce.

FISH AND VEGETABLES WITH PESTO BAKED IN FOIL PACKETS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Blend pesto, lemon juice and hot pepper sauce in small bowl. Arrange four 12x12-inch pieces of heavy-duty foil on work surface. Place 1 fish fillet in center of each. Sprinkle fish lightly with salt and pepper. Spread each fillet with 1 tablespoon pesto mixture. Top each fillet with asparagus, tomatoes and squash, then dollop with remaining pesto mixture. Fold sides of foil over fish and vegetables, covering completely; seal packets closed.
• Using long spatula, transfer foil packets to large baking sheet. Bake until fish is just opaque in center and vegetables are crisp-tender, about 25 minutes.