Thursday, April 18, 2013

Baked Haddock or other white fish

This is a quick and tasty recipe for making Haddock fillets. It is a healthy alternative to deep frying! This recipe serves 2 people but can easily be doubled. I served this with roasted asparagus; roasted mushrooms, onions and sweet bell peppers. The cooking time for the vegetables is about the same and you can just toss them with a little olive oil, pepper and garlic and lay them out on a baking sheet and roast them at the same time as you are baking the fish.

Ingredients:

2 Haddock (or other white fish) fillets, about an inch thick
1/8 cup Almond "milk" beverage or skim milk
1/8 cup bread crumbs (preferably whole wheat)
2 tsp grated Parmesan cheese
freshly ground black pepper to taste
1 tsp dry thyme 
1 tsp dry basil
1 tsp ground turmeric 
several lemon wedges

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 450F. Lightly oil a glass baking dish (such as Corning ware).
2. On a dinner plate, mix together the bread crumbs, cheese, pepper, thyme, basil and turmeric.
3. Place the almond milk or skim milk in a wide shallow dish. Dip the fish in the liquid and then press it into the bread crumb mixture to coat both sides well. Place in the oiled baking dish and and bake on lower rack of oven for first part of cooking time (about 7.5 minutes). Move to upper rack of oven to bake for remaining 7.5 minutes. 
4. Serve immediately, with lemon wedges to flavour.