fitfool | Coconut-Crusted Fish

I rarely cook fish at home since I'm too afraid of messing it up. Recommendations for easy fish recipes are welcome. (especially non-salmon dishes since B doesn't like salmon.) This one was easy to prepare and tasted pretty good although it didn't look very pretty. I served it with Bahia Butternut Mash. The drink in the background is a Malibu Bay Breeze. I included that drink recipe too.

Coconut-Crusted Fish

1 lb white flesh fish filets (perch, tilapia, butterfish, cod, sole)
salt and pepper
2 Tbsp lemon juice
1/3 cup coconut flakes
3/4 cup panko bread crumbs

Preheat oven to 350F
Oil a glass pan with 1 Tbsp olive oil.
Place fish in pan in a single layer. Add salt & pepper
Pour 2 Tbsp lemon juice over fish filets in pan.
Combine 1/3 cup coconut flakes and 3/4 cup panko and then sprinkle generously over fish.
Bake 15-25 minutes until done.

Malibu Bay Breeze

1 1/2 oz Malibu rum
4 oz pineapple juice
1 1/2 oz cranberry juice
lime wedge, for garnish
freshly grated nutmeg, garnish

Build in a highball glass and garnish with the lime wedge.

Variation: Pour 1 1/2 oz Malibu rum in a mixing glass. Add 1 oz each of pineapple and cranberry juices. Shake it very hard until the pineapple juice makes nice foam on top, then strain it into a chilled martini glass. Grate fresh nutmeg on top.

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That fish sounds like it'd be really good, but I'm really suspicious of fish because I've eaten cod before and it had heaps of bones in it... I do like salmon and stuff like shark though. Maybe I could use this recipe but use shark?

I don't mind fish bones as long as they're big enough to spot and spit back out. My favorite fish dish is Steamed Flounder with Ginger and Scallions at Chinese restaurants. So good. But yeah...watch out for those bones. I don't think I've ever seen shark for sale. Would mahi mahi be another good meaty fish that doesn't have much in the way of bones?

Coconut-Crusted Fish

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