Roasted Blue-Eye Cod With Herb Crust

Kate in Katoomba's Note:

This recipe came from the'Sydney Morning Herald' and is wonderful. If you don't have cod, any firm fleshed white fish would be just as good. Do try it.

• Total Time: 20 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 100 g fresh breadcrumbs
• 3 tablespoons finely chopped sage
• 4 tablespoons finely chopped parsley
• 2 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese
• 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
• sea salt
• 2 free range eggs
• 1 free range egg yolk
• 4 (100 g) pieces blue-eye cod fillet (or any firm white-fleshed fish)
• 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
• ½ tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 bunch baby rocket (or rocket)
• 4 lemon wedges , for serving

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 190 degrees C.
2. Place the breadcrumbs, sage, parsley, parmesan and mustard in food processor and whiz until well combined.
3. Transfer to a bowl and season to taste.
4. Whisk the eggs and yolk and slowly pour in enough to form a slightly moist dough.
5. Pat a half centimetre thick crust on the top of each piece of fish and place on a greased tray.
6. Bake in the oven for about 10 minutes or until just cooked through.
7. Meanwhile whisk the olive oil and lemon juice together and toss with the rocket.
8. Serve the fish on starter plates with a small mound of rocket and a lemon wedge.
9. With a glass of chardonnay.

Reviews

[gm9au]

Nice! Is there any better fish than Blue-Eye?? But I didn't have fresh breadcrumbs and herbs, so substituted 80 g dried breadcrumbs with 20 ml milk and 10 ml EV olive oil, 1 dessertspoon dried sage, 1 tablespoon dried parsley. It worked fine and there was no need to use a processor.

[~Leslie~]

We thought this was a fabulous way to prepare fish. I used cod fillets, and cut down on the sage a little as well.It had an awesome presentation,it looked so impressive. Fast, and easy to follow, a real winner! Thanks for sharing!

[JustJanS]

This was quick and easy to make, and tasted really good. We reduced the sage to 6 leaves as I find it ovean overpowering herb if you use too much and only needed the two eggs. The crust kept the fish (we used ling) very moist. I served it with cos lettuce, as I don't like rocket.