Baked Fish With Spinach

Submitted by karen

"No idea where I got this one, but it was easy & tasty. Add some rice and you've got a complete meal. I made this with seabass...delicious...but use your favorite fish."

 

• Ready In: 30mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 1⁄2 cup butter
• 1⁄3 lb mushroom, thinly sliced
• 3 (10 ounce) packages frozen chopped spinach
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 3 teaspoons dried dill weed
• 1⁄2 cup breadcrumbs
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons salt
• 1 dash pepper
• 4 fish fillets or 4 fish steaks
• 1⁄4 cup lemon juice

directions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Melt 1/4 cup of the butter in a large frying pan over medium-high heat.
3. Add mushrooms and saute until limp.
4. Add onion, dill, bread crumbs, salt, and pepper. Stir until thoroughly mixed.
5. Add thawed and drained spinach, mix but do not cook spinach.
6. Spray shallow round cake pan with cooking spray (or a similar pan with low sides).
7. Spread spinach mixture over bottom.
8. Arrange fish on top of spinach.
9. Melt remaining butter and add lemon juice.
10. Brush fish with lemon butter and bake, uncovered, basting several times with more lemon butter until fish flakes when prodded in the thickest portion with a fork. Cooking time is approximately 10 minutes per inch of fish thickness.
11. Remove from oven and pour any remaining lemon butter over fish.
12. Serve immediately.

Reviews

[Mandy S.]

I made this, using Swai, for a date-night-in. It was so good! I sauteed the onion with the mushrooms, and a little minced garlic, before adding the rest of the ingredients. Since I halved the recipe, I used 1 pkg of frozen spinach and a big handful of fresh (to get rid of it.) It was just right. Served it with a twice-baked potato. My boyfriend raved about the whole meal!

 

[NorthwestGal]

Wonderful dish!! For the fish, I used cod and it was a great choice that went well with the spinach. For the mushrooms, I choice standard white button mushrooms, but I bet this would be great with cremini, too. I really like recipes like this where, for the same effort, you get a main dish and a side vegetable. I didn't make any changes to the recipe, but I did have to scale back the spinach. I normally get frozen spinach in 10-oz packages, but my local grocery store now offers only 12-oz packages. So I decided to use two 12-oz packages of frozen spinach, and it worked out quite well. Thanks, Karen. It's a great dish that we all liked a lot.

 

[Debber]

Very nice meal! I love the spinach in it--very good flavor, and gets the veggies in without too much trouble! I used canned mushrooms---it's what I had on hand. Served it with oven-baked/fried potatoes---as long as the oven's running, use it up! Good recipe!

 

[ksduffster]

We enjoyed this quite a bit. I also used halibut, although I would like to try it again with swordfish when I get an opportunity to splurge. I also cut back to 2 boxes of spinach. I also halved the butter (1/2 cup is A LOT of butter! I didn't even use what I prepared!) and the lemon juice. I might try it with some stronger herbs/seasonings next time, but the flavor here was very pleasant. I served it with plain brown rice, drizzling a bit of the lemon butter over top. This was so simple too! I doubt it took me more than 15 minutes of actual work to make dinner last night! The longest part was thawing the spinach! Thanks Karen! I will be making this again, trying different kinds of fish in the future (I'm not overly fond of halibut, but it's cheap).

 

[Stacee R.]

This is a great dish! I used 2 halibut steaks and cut the spinach down to 2 boxes. Everything else was kept the same. It's not unusual to pair fish with butter, lemon and dill but the spinach mixture took it to another level. I loved the breadcrumbs! This is a wonderful way to add fish and veggies into your diet. Thank you for posting such a great recipe, Karen! I will be making this often. :)