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Cod Pescado a la Veracruzana
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Jonathan's second-course option is pescado a la Veracruzana, a Gulf-coast Mexican classic in which a thick white-fish fillet is served napped with a chunky tomato sauce featuring olives, capers, and pickled chiles - a clear Mediterranean fingerprint on Mexican cooking.
Jonathan: "I'm trying to get a nice thick filet." He uses cod for the fillet and builds the sauce with stewed tomatoes, briny Castelvetrano olives, and capers.
Oscar introduces it tableside: "Jonathan's dish is a cod pescado, la Veracruzana. And then he stewed tomatoes, Castelvetrano olives, and some capers." Cleanly executed traditional plating.
{Claire}: "Jonathan's cod was very flaky. I like the briny tomato." {Kristen}: "It's a good dish. The fish is cooked beautifully. The sauce is really good." Judges' table - {Tom}: "Jonathan, his aguachile and his cod dish, they were fine. They were good. Aguachile was very good." (Comparative deliberation noted both Jonathan dishes as solid but not standouts compared to Oscar's barbacoa, which the table called the night's best dish.)
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