Coconut-Crusted Fish

[fitfool]

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

1. Preheat oven to 350F
   
   
2. Oil a glass pan with 1 Tbsp olive oil.
   
   
3. Place fish in pan in a single layer. Add salt & pepper
   
   
4. Pour 2 Tbsp lemon juice over fish filets in pan.
   
   
5. Combine 1/3 cup coconut flakes and 3/4 cup panko and then sprinkle generously over fish.
   
   
6. 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.

Comments

[wildmagelet.livejournal.com]

Yum! :) I have quite a few favourite fish recipes at the moment:

Fish cakes (I make these the easy way, just using a tin of boneless, skinless salmon - I'm not the biggest salmon fan either, but it tastes good in fish cakes - leftover mashed potatoes and an egg. Mix together, season with salt and pepper, form into patties and cook in a pan sprayed with oil. You can also roll in breadcrumbs before you fry them, and adding a bit of crushed feta cheese or parmesan to the mix is tasty too).

Citrus Fish Kebabs.

Homemade fish and chips. (I have this at least once a week on average.)

Cajun-spiced Fish Fillets.

Fisherman's Pie.

Salmon and chilli pasta.

Dill and Lemon Fish Filo Parcels.

Lemon Fish Fettucine.

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

oh wow...lots of good ideas here. I especially like the idea of fish cakes though I wonder if it would give the frying smell that my boyfriend hates. I like the sound of the Fisherman's Pie too. When it refers to 'reduced-fat spread' are they referring to butter?

[wildmagelet.livejournal.com]

That recipe is from the website for Healthy Food Guide magazine, which tends to recommend the use of lower fat olive/canola oil based spreads (like Olivio - not sure if you have that) over butter, but you could just as easily use butter itself. :)

And I actually don't do well with either digesting or smelling heavily fried foods either, but I find that you don't get that smell if you just fry the fish cakes in a sprayed pan rather than with lots of oil. Or you can bake them. If I'm feeling lazy and don't feel like washing a pan, I just put them on a cookie tray, spray the tops with oil and bake them in the oven for ten minutes until they go golden.

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

Cool...thanks for the tips!

[wildmagelet.livejournal.com]

I usually do the suggested variations with the pie by the way, and added chopped hardboiled eggs and cover the top with mashed potato and a bit of cheese instead of the bread.