Description
This is a simple and excellent way to serve ling cod or other bottom fish. It makes a delicious meal served with rice pilaf and Caesar salad.
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons salt
- 1 ½ pounds lingcod, cleaned and boned
- salt and ground black pepper to taste
- 1 lemon
- ½ cup butter, divided
- 1 ½ cups bread crumbs
- ½ cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 teaspoon lemon pepper
Instructions
- Dissolve 3 tablespoons salt in 8 cups of water in a bowl and brine lingcod at room temperature for 30 minutes. Drain brine and rinse and dry cod; season 1 side with salt and pepper.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
- Cut lemon in half; zest 1 half and cut the other half into wedges.
- Melt 1/4 cup of butter in a skillet over medium-high heat. Add cod; cook until fillets are golden brown on both sides
- about 5 minutes per side.
- Transfer fillets into a baking pan; squeeze zested half of lemon over cod.
- Combine bread crumbs
- Parmesan cheese
- lemon pepper
- and lemon zest in a bowl. Top fillets with bread crumb mixture. Cut remaining butter into pieces and dot top of fillets.
- Bake fillets in the preheated oven until bread crumb mixture is golden brown and cod flakes easily with a fork
- 15 to 20 minutes.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 25 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins
Servings: 6