Easy Recipe: Pan Fried Halibut

My friend's husband recently returned from a fishing trip in Alaska, and gave us a filet of halibut that he caught.  

There are many ways to season and cook halibut.  Here's one of the quickest, easiest, and tastiest ways:

1) coast the halibut filet in a mixture of flour, salt, pepper, and garlic salt

2) heat a medium sized pan with oil 

3) add the coated halibut into the oil, turn over when the bottom side is beginning to brown

4) keep turning until sides are golden brown

Eat them as pictured above or use them for fish tacos - yum!!

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Lemon-Parsley Baked Cod

In my efforts to make more fish for the family, we bought some frozen cod from our local warehouse club.

Then the search went on for a quick and easy recipe, and I found this recipe from Taste of Home.

I added a few more minutes to the cooking time since I didn't defrost the cod, and it turned out delicious!

Definitely will make it again soon!

Baked Cod (recipe credit Taste of Home)

Ingredients:

• 3 T lemon juice
• 3 T butter, melted
• 1/4 c flour
• 1/2 t salt
• 1/4 t paprika
• 1/4 t lemon pepper
• 4 cod fillets (6 oz each)
• 2 T parsley, chopped

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 400°F. 
• In a shallow dish, combine the lemon juice and butter. 
• In a separate shallow dish, combine the flour, salt, paprika, and lemon pepper.
• Dip cod fillets in lemon juice mixture, then in flour mixture to coat both sides.  Be sure to shake off any excess.
• Place cod in a prepared 13x9-in. baking dish.
• Drizzle cod with remaining lemon juice mixture. 
• Bake 12-15 minutes (if frozen add 5 to 10 minutes cooking time).
• Sprinkle parsley over fish.

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Lemon Dill Salmon

Because my middle son loves salmon, I've been trying to cook more salmon dishes.  One of my recent attempts was this Lemon Dill Salmon (recipe from Allrecipes.com).

It's a super easy recipe, and I served it with a lemon dill sauce which made it even tastier! And thankfully everyone in my family ate it up!

Lemon Dill Salmon (recipe credit Allrecipes.com)

Ingredients

• 1 lb salmon fillets
• 1/4 c butter, melted
• 5 T lemon juice
• 1 T dried dill weed
• 1/4 t garlic powder
• sea salt
• black pepper

Directions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Mix butter and lemon juice in a small bowl.
• Place salmon in a prepared baking dish and drizzle butter and lemon mixture over salmon.
• Sprinkle dill and garlic powder.
• Season with salt and pepper.
• Bake for approximately 25 minutes.  

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Furikake Mahi Mahi

In my quest to cook more fish dishes for the family, I decided to make Furikake Mahi Mahi (based on this recipe on the Hawaiian Electric site).

I love mahi - it's one of my favorite fishes to eat, but I never cooked it before, so I was a little nervous.  But the Furikake Mahi Mahi turned out great, and it's now one of my husband's favorite dishes.

Furikake Mahi Mahi (recipe slightly adapted from Hawaiian Electric)

Ingredients:

• 2 lb mahi mahi, cut into 4 oz portions
• 1 egg 
• 1/4 c water
• 1/4 c flour
• 1/4 c cornstarch
• 1 c furikake
• 1 c panko 
• 1/4 c vegetable oil

Directions:

• Mix egg, water, flour, and cornstarch in a shallow dish.
• Mix together furikake and panko in a separate shallow dish.
• Dip fish pieces into egg mixture, then furikake mixture.
• Fry fish pieces in oil on medium-high heat until golden brown on each side.

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