Pan Seared Cod • Finest Cod Recipe {Video}Two Purple Figs

Should you’re on the lookout for a straightforward and fast fish dinner with BIG flavors, attempt our Pan Seared Cod. Made with tender and succulent cod fish seared in butter and laced in a lemony butter piccata sauce. That is a kind of cod recipes you’ll be making for dinner so fairly often.

Seafood and Fish recipes are the reply to our busy weeknight dinners, and our fancy dinner cravings! There’s one thing about fish that looks like a delicacy–particularly if you’re a fish lover like us. Perhaps it’s our Mediterranean background 🙂 

The wonder about cod fish is that it has a beautiful meaty texture, and it’s really easy to prepare dinner. We’ve made a Baked Cod Recipe not too way back, and it’s succulent! You may also use it in our most viral recipe on Pinterest, this Mediterranean Baked Fish. It’s my grandpa’s recipe and it’s perfection.

Chilean Sea Bass cooked to perfection and topped with our idiot proof Basil Pesto is considered one of our private favourite!

Whereas you too can fry cod fish per this Fish Fry recipe, it’ll take a couple of minutes longer because it’s a thick fish. You possibly can likewise use it in tacos like our Mahi Mahi Tacos as a result of it has a semi agency texture. 

At the moment’s we’re highlighting cod recipes because the fish is so versatile. We’re making a lemon piccata like sauce, much like our Sockeye Salmon With Lemon Butter Sauce however barely lighter 🙂

Why You’ll LOVE Pan Seared Cod

• It’s fast and simple! Cooks in 20 minutes and requires no fussy tools or methods!
• Cod fish is semi agency, but succulent so it holds on to the sauce completely.
• The flavors are AMAZING! Tremendous tasty and scrumptious cod recipe.
• You possibly can serve it with fries, rice, pasta, Garlic Bread, salad and a lot extra!
• It’s nutritious and wealthy but feels tremendous mild.
• You may make it for a celebration simply because it holds nicely.
• This cod recipe is one pot meal.

Components You’ll want

• Cod fish. Use contemporary or thawed frozen fillets of cod. You may also use pores and skin on or skinless as now we have right here.
• Flour. We love seasoning our flour with salt, pepper and contemporary oregano. 
• Capers. For tang and texture within the pan sauce.
• Butter. To sear the fish and eventually in the direction of the tip for thickening the sauce.
• Lemon. We use lemon slices, juice and zest of you favor for final taste.
• Recent Oregano. You should utilize thyme, parsley or a combo.
• Inventory/Wine combination. You should utilize both or, or a combo of each to make the sauce.
• Oil. To assist sauté the fish.
• Salt and Pepper. Seasoning. You possibly can nevertheless use paprika, garlic, Italian spices for those who’d like.

How one can Pan Sear Cod 

1. You’re going to start out with seasoning the cod fish on either side with simply salt and pepper. Thsi kind of fish could be very mildly flavored so it’s concept for our lemony buttery piccata sauce. And for that we flippantly season the fish itself as we depend on the sauce. 
   
2. In a shallow plate add the flour and season the flour with salt, pepper and contemporary oregano. This seasoning step is totally non-obligatory, and it’s possible you’ll use plain flour. We’ve discovered that seasoned flour provides 1 minute to our course of, however elevates the flavour by the miles.
3. Dredge the cod fillets, separately into the flour plate. Be certain that to shake off any extra flour. It’s presupposed to be flippantly coated solely.
   
4. Preheat a heavy obligation non stick skillet, we’ve used a ceramic dutch pan. Add 2 tablespoons of the butter and the oil. The oil permits the fish to prepare dinner with out burning the surface. 
5. Keep away from over crowding the skillet when sautéing the fish. Should you’re making a considerable amount of this cod fish recipe, repeat this step in batches.
   
6. Sauté the fish till it’s golden on the surface. The flour coating will assist it flip golden faster and can shield the fish from breaking up when flipping. The flour additionally primarily helps thicken our sauce within the subsequent step.

Make the Piccata Sauce

1. As soon as either side of the cod fillets have turned golden, you’re prepared to start out the sauce. The fish doesn’t should be essentially cooked by means of, as it’ll prepare dinner within the sauce.
2. You’ll add within the inventory/wine combo or both or. Alongside you’ll add in lemon slices, contemporary oregano and drained capers. Then you definately’ll convey the sauce to a boil and decrease the warmth so the sauce can simmer.
   
3. The liquid within the sauce has to cut back to about 50% and at that time you’re prepared so as to add within the remaining butter.
4. Flip off the warmth totally and add within the chilly butter, one tablespoon at a time.
   
5. Combine flippantly the butter into your complete sauce and because it melts, the sauce will thicken much more. At that time the fish ought to be absolutely cooked and the sauce prepared. 

Fish Recipes

Fish Fry
Crab Claws
Poke Bowl
Mediterranean Baked Fish
Shrimp Ceviche
Baked Haddock
Chilean Sea Bass
Honey Glazed Salmon
Grilled Mahi Mahi