Baked Cod

Name: Baked Cod
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: 2 lb cod fillets (thick, even — frozen is honest, thawed and dried); 3 tbsp butter (melted); 3 clove garlic (minced); 1 unit lemon (juice + zest, wedges reserved); ½ tsp paprika; 1 tsp salt; ¼ tsp black pepper; 2 tbsp parsley (chopped)

Seafood & Poultry · American · European

8 ingredients · 25 minutes · 2 servings

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526kcal75.6g protein22.5g fat4.2g carbs~$7.27/ serving*

Contains dairy, fish · only in an optional ingredient: gluten

Restrictions

Containsdairy · fishIt is in an ingredient you cannot leave out.

Only if you add itgluten (breadcrumbs)Leave that ingredient out and the dish does not have it.

Diets

PescatarianNo porkNo alcohol

Worked out from the ingredient list. It knows nothing about brands, shared equipment or cross contamination, and it is not a certification — if you have an allergy, you still have to read the label.

Ingredients

Servings:

2 lb	cod fillets (thick, even — frozen is honest, thawed and dried)
3 tbsp	butter (melted)
3 clove	garlic (minced)
1 unit	lemon (juice + zest, wedges reserved)
½ tsp	paprika
1 tsp	salt
¼ tsp	black pepper
2 tbsp	parsley (chopped)

Optional

Not counted above. The dish works without them.

½ cup

buttered crumbs (1/2 cup breadcrumbs + 1 tbsp butter — the New England lid)

Steps

Prep6 min
fillets dried hard, tails tucked, in a buttered dish
- cod fillets
the cod pressed dry — cod holds water the way this catalog's fried chapter holds rules, and a wet fillet poaches gray in its own puddle — thin tail ends folded under so every fillet is one thickness, which is the entire secret to even fish
Season3 min
melted butter + garlic + lemon over, paprika + salt + pepper on
the garlic-lemon butter spooned across every fillet, the paprika dusted for warmth and for color — pale fish in a pale sauce needs the visual advocate — and the crumb top pressed on now for the New England fork
Bake12 min
400°F, ten minutes per inch, to just-opaque and flaking
hot and brief — done the moment the thickest part turns from translucent to opaque and gives into large flakes under a fork's gentle push; the 145°F number is the same call in a probe's language. Cod has no fat reserve to forgive a late pull, and the difference between silk and cotton is about ninety seconds
Top2 min
pan butter respooned, parsley, lemon wedges
- parsley
the dish's own lemon butter spooned back over the fillets, parsley scattered, wedges alongside — with rice, with the catalog's roasted potatoes, or beside a green vegetable in the dinner that takes twenty-five minutes end to end, which is the argument this fish has been quietly winning for generations