Family Fish Night

We’re bringing back the family style dinner at the Weekly Bite Casa!  I love having the table set and having all the food ready to go in serving dishes, then everyone helps themselves.

We strive to eat together as a family as many days as possible.  Mr. Weekly Bite sometimes works crazy hours, but he makes it home for dinner a good four nights per week.  If he’s working late, I always eat dinner with M.  Its so important for me to instill that sense of family in her.

I’ve been trying to include fresh cooked fish at least once per week. Last night we had crispy fish with lemon & dill dipping sauce. I cut M’s into little fish stick sizes.  I also made some Annie’s Pasta Bunnies for her 🙂  Mr. Weekly Bite helped  himself to pasta bunnies too.

I love how easy this dish came together.  Before I started the fish, I made the lemon dill sauce.  I like making this ahead of time that way the flavors have time to develop.

It was delicious 🙂

While the flavors of the sauce were melding, I prepped the fish.  I cut the fish into the sizes I wanted and sprinkled a little salt & pepper on top of each piece.  For the bread coating, I mixed panko bread crumbs with garlic powder, paprika, & old bay.  I dunked the fish in egg, the dredged it in the bread crumb mixture.

Here they are ready for the oven.  To cook the fish, I turned on the oven broiler and cooked it for about 4 minutes on each side.

The fish was cooked perfectly.  Side note – make sure the rack you place the fish on is in the middle of the oven.  If the rack is too close to the broiler, it’ll burn a bit.  Luckily I noticed right away and moved the oven rack before the fish burned 🙂

I served it with sauteed squash & zucchini.

Recipe loosely adapted from Cooking Light.

Ingredients:

• 2 eggs (beaten)
• 1 cup panko bread crumbs
• 1 tsp paprika
• 2 tsp garlic powder
• 1 tsp old bay
• 1 lb fresh cod, cut into filet size of your choice
• salt & pepper
• {Lemon Dill Sauce}
• 1/2 cup light mayonnaise
• 3 tablespoons finely chopped dill pickle
• 2 tsp dried dill
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1 tsp onion powder
• Juice of one lemon

Combine mayonnaise, pickle, dill, garlic powder, onion powder, & lemon juice.  Mix well and place in refrigerator until ready to serve.

Preheat the broiler.   Beat eggs and place in shallow dish.  Combine panko, paprika, garlic powder, & old bay.  Cut cod into desired filet size.  Lightly sprinkle fish with salt & pepper.  Dunk fish into egg, then dredge into panko mixture.  Place on a baking sheet that’s been sprayed with non-stick cooking spray.

Broil for 3-4 minutes on each side.

The fish was delicious & our family style dinner was a success!

We’ll be making this again soon 🙂

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• By Estella
• January 27, 2011
• 21 comments
• Filed in Recipes
• Tagged in crispy fish Crispy fish with lemon & dill sauce family dinners fish stick lemon dill sauce