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

In the event you’re searching for a simple 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 type 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 seems like a delicacy–particularly whenever you’re a fish lover like us. Perhaps it’s our Mediterranean background 🙂 

The sweetness about cod fish is that it has a beautiful meaty texture, and it’s really easy to cook dinner. We’ve made a Baked Cod Recipe not too way back, and it’s succulent! You too can 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 one among our private favourite!

Whereas you may also fry cod fish per this Fish Fry recipe, it is going to take a couple of minutes longer because it’s a thick fish. You’ll be able to likewise use it in tacos like our Mahi Mahi Tacos as a result of it has a semi agency texture. 

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

Why You’ll LOVE Pan Seared Cod

• It’s fast and straightforward! Cooks in 20 minutes and requires no fussy gear 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’ll be able to serve it with fries, rice, pasta, Garlic Bread, salad and a lot extra!
• It’s nutritious and wealthy but feels tremendous gentle.
• You can also make it for a celebration simply because it holds effectively.
• This cod recipe is one pot meal.

Elements You’ll want

• Cod fish. Use recent or thawed frozen fillets of cod. You too can use pores and skin on or skinless as we now have right here.
• Flour. We love seasoning our flour with salt, pepper and recent oregano. 
• Capers. For tang and texture within the pan sauce.
• Butter. To sear the fish and at last in direction of the top 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’ll be able to nonetheless use paprika, garlic, Italian spices should you’d like.

Methods to Pan Sear Cod 

1. You’re going to start out with seasoning the cod fish on each side with simply salt and pepper. Thsi sort of fish could be very mildly flavored so it’s concept for our lemony buttery piccata sauce. And for that we calmly 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 recent oregano. This seasoning step is totally elective, and it’s possible you’ll use plain flour. Now we have discovered that seasoned flour provides 1 minute to our course of, however elevates the flavour by the miles.
3. Dredge the cod fillets, one after the other into the flour plate. Be certain that to shake off any extra flour. It’s speculated to be calmly coated solely.
   
4. Preheat a heavy responsibility 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 cook dinner with out burning the skin. 
5. Keep away from over crowding the skillet when sautéing the fish. In the event 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 skin. The flour coating will assist it flip golden faster and can defend 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 each side of the cod fillets have turned golden, you’re prepared to start out the sauce. The fish doesn’t must be essentially cooked via, as it is going to cook dinner within the sauce.
2. You’ll add within the inventory/wine combo or both or. Alongside you’ll add in lemon slices, recent 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 solely and add within the chilly butter, one tablespoon at a time.
   
5. Combine calmly the butter into your entire sauce and because it melts, the sauce will thicken much more. At that time the fish needs to be totally 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