Need some new simple fish recipes? There are tons below (scroll down), but first, I'll show you which idea I used: “Baked Fish with Tangy Lemon Garlic Cream Cheese Sauce”… The flavors explode in your mouth!
I've told you before that I stink at planning out meals, but once in a while I'll think ahead maybe a day or two. This week I made Parmesan Pesto Pasta with Seasoned Chicken recipe (I ate it without pasta since I'm trying to watch the carbs again, more on that soon), and made a TON of pesto, so we would have leftovers for this yummy fish recipe the next night… (Pictured on the right.) However, I learned that someone ATE it, so I had to come up with a plan B. I posted this to my Facebook page:
My dinner needs your help! Does anyone have an easy idea for making some yummy cod tonight? I was going to use a recipe from the blog with our leftover pesto but someone ate it, so I need a new idea! (Something that doesn't include breading, please.) THANKS!
Further below are ALL the responses for more simple fish recipes, and here's the recipe for the one I used… (Thank you @LeahWood!)
Baked Fish with Tangy Lemon Garlic Cream Cheese Sauce
Ingredients
- Cod fillets Try to find preservative-free cod!
- 8 ounce organic cream cheese
- Juice from 1 zested lemon
- 2-3 cloves of crushed garlic
- Sea salt and pepper lemon pepper would be great, too
Instructions
- Butter a 9×13 glass baking dish and place cod fillets in the bottom, cutting pieces to be evenly sized. (So they're all done about the same time.) Season fillets with sea salt and pepper (lemon pepper is really good!) Then mix together with your stick blender: cream cheese, salt and pepper to your taste, garlic and the zest and juice from your one lemon. Spread the cream cheese mixture over the fillets and bake at 425* until fish is flaky (done!) – about 30 minutes.
- *This recipe is for about 4 to 6 fillets, if you are cooking a larger amount of fish, or want it extra creamy, you may want to double the cream cheese recipe. I made it with 2-8 oz. packages, but that was too much and we ended up eating the leftovers as a veggie dip – so good!
It sure doesn't come out of the oven looking too pretty, but when I put it on the plate I was able to get a better picture for this post!
Want more simple fish recipes and ideas? There are a lot below!
Here's a good one: Seafood Chowder.
And here are ALL of my seafood recipes in one spot.
Here's what came through on my Facebook page:
- Diane Harding Balsamo — Sprinkle with salt and pepper, several slices of butter, fresh lemon slices and fresh bay leaves if you have them, bake at 400 for 20 minutes.
- Kelly Garrard Smith– What about something like this?? (https://allrecipes.com/recipe/broiled-tilapia-parmesan/)
- Tiani Heider– We like our cod fried: Turn into season flour, shake off excess. Pop pieces into the freezer for about ten, 15 minutes. Meanwhile, heat up oil, and assemble two bowls-one with whole eggs and a splash of milk, and the other with straight Panko. When the cod is very firm to the touch, but not completely frozen through….dip into egg mixture, toss into panko to coat, and then into the fryer-350 degrees until they are golden brown. We serve with home made zucchini relish made up into tartar sauce. Dana Hopkins You could do a pecan crust…I'd check out allrecipes for inspiration…or even pinterest
- Andrea Mérida– Fish stew? (https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/dads_fish_stew/)
- Liz Ferguson– I like it with salsa on top. As it bakes the spices kind of seep into the fish and it's moist and delicious. Serve it with some spanish rice and a salad.
- BetteAnne Camagna– olive oil, crushed garlic, basil, squeeze fresh lemon, capers, sea salt, parsley, butter. Place all ingredients on cod, bake until white a flaky – side dish Ferro Grain. Arugala side salad with parmesean shavings and lemon dressing.
- Rachel Yoder– I always bake it with lemon juice and butter, and a hefty sprinkling of lemon pepper. A bit of chicken broth if more liquid is needed.
- Lorene Foster– Fish tacos:) we just fry the Cod then top with homemade coleslaw in a tortilla
- Jill Krantz– I butter a shallow baking dish, lay the fish in there. Sprinkle with salt, and a nice green curry blend (Thai is great), and then pour a can or carton of coconut CREAM over the top. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes. Cook rice with garlic, chile flakes, lime juice and cilantro. Serve fish and coconut curry cream over the rice.
- Leah Wood– Cream cheese, lemon juice & zest, salt & pepper, chopped onions and/or garlic. Mix into a cheese sauce and stuff/ cover fish. Top with a melty cheese and bake/broil. Best. Cod. Ever.
- Melissa Raye Patterson– Blackened on the grill, by itself or in tacos … Divine!
- Emily Muffett Jefferies– Made this awhile back and liked it! (https://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/roasted-pacific-cod-olives-lemon-10000001664782/index.html)
- Sherry Morris- make a parchment packet with cod, lemon slice, salt, butter, and let everyone pick any other herbs/flavors they want in their own little packet and bake in the oven.
- Temi Howard– Coconut flour batter fried in palm oil. Yum!
- Temi Howard– Top with butter, onion, tomato, cayenne and a little salt. Bake to perfection.
- Jamie Brummel– Sorry I don't have a recipe per se with exact measurements, but I often cook from feel. Mix @ 1/2 c. mayo with 1/2 c. regular sour cream. Add (to taste) southwest or Cajun seasoning, salt, paprika, a little onion powder, marjoram, and fresh lime juice. Whisk to combine. (I try to balance the lime with the kick of the southwestern or Cajun seasoning.) Cover a jelly roll pan with aluminum foil for easy clean up. Add frozen fillets. Baste with sauce liberally, covering fish. Bake according to package directions. About 2/3 of the way through, carefully drain liquid from pan, rebasting fish with sauce. (It tends to slide off.) Before returning it to the oven, grate fresh Romano cheese on top. Finish baking, browning cheese under broiler at end once fish flakes easily with a fork. Enjoy!
- Peggy Thompson– I love cod in chowder with lots of herbs.
- Jodie Hagan– We like to eat fish Ghanaian style (my husband is from Ghana, and the YUMMY foods are sooo good for you – lots of fermented grains mmmm). Fry the fish with salt and pepper. In a separate pot make an oil based spicy tomato “stew.” Cover the bottom of the pan with olive oil and add a large chopped onion to soften. Then add a can of tomato sauce or diced tomatoes (or both) and turn up to a boil – careful not to burn. The sauce should have a lot of oil, so the spices that are added can incorporate evenly without being grainy. You can either add fresh or powdered, garlic, ginger, and cayenne pepper to taste, and of course, salt. We like it a bit on the spicy side (it is not a sweet spaghetti sauce). After cooking the stew for 15 minutes or longer, you can add the fish to the pot to warm the fish up and serve it over rice.
- Felecia Berg– crushed pistachio crusted cod.
- Carrie Hoult Perez– Olive or coconut oil on a piece of foil,season as you like before you set the fish on the oil, too( I like dill, salt, pepper, garlic, even onion…whatever) and then season the top also, put lemon slices on top and wrap up for the grill or put in the oven. I do this with any fish and it always tastes great! You could use chopped nuts of some kind on top for those recipes above, instead of bread crumbs depends what seasonings you use.
- Sharon Marks– Put a slice or two of slightly cooked bacon on top with some lemon, sea salt and onion and bake until done.
- Wendy Vickery– Thyme, fresh or dried is great on baked fish.
- Becky Marshall– Pioneer woman has a great fish recipe (I think she uses cod for it-we use whatever fish we have on hand). But you fry on one side on high heat and throw it in the oven for a bit and then make a garlic lemon butter sauce. So delish!!
- Jennifer Ostermeyer– We've been making them on the grill lately. I let everyone make their own, top it with veggies of choice, butter, olive oil, s&P and garlic. Wrap in foil, and its done fast. No clean up!!!!
- Kierstyn Floyd Bristol– Cod is such a yummy fish! We baste it with butter, sprinkle with Himalayan pink salt and cook in a pan or the toaster oven. Amazing flavor and soooo easy.
- Laura Norman– Soy lime ginger garlic marinade.
- Karen Didriksen Tucker– Onions, Greek olives tomatoes chopped put on fish filets drizzle olive oil add salt and pepper. Bake.
- Leela Gupta– This is delicious. (https://tasteinspired.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/poached-cod-in-creamy-tarragon-sauce/)
- Erin Tucker Young– yesterday I just baked mine with sea salt, pepper, olive oil and dill weed.
- Jeanne Darby Hubbard– I just like to bake it with lemon juice on top….or lemon juice and butter….
- Diane Berry Puente– Grill it w/Cajun spices…or even Indian spices…yum!
- Valerie Stuch Johnson– Probably too late now, but if you go to Faithful Provisions and look at her recipe for fish tacos, that seasoning is excellent on the fish! We don't care for the tortilla part of fish tacos, but I do like to bake fish with that seasoning
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Fish Recipes Lover! says
You have so many amazing Fish Recipes on this page, it was hard to decide which one to make first. My favorite was the Baked Fish with Tangy Lemon Garlic Cream Cheese Sauce. One of the best fish recipes I have tried. It was so delicious!
joleigh says
Thanks for the post. I’m not able to get out of town to hit the good places, but my GF goes to the city regularly, so I’ll have to start a list for her to pick up for me and add the cod filets to it. From Trader Joe’s, can you recommend vanilla extract, cocoa powder and choc. chips?
KitchenKop says
And they have good shrimp there, too, with no preservatives!
I answered you in the other post, but I’ll say here too, that Amazon does have that stuff you mentioned in organics: https://amzn.to/ZWuyQV – yay!
Kel
Sarah says
Getting ready to start GAPS intro in a week. Full GAPS to follow so I am very excited to have a source of fish recipes!