Baked Cod Recipe With Cracker Topping

Baked, stuffed fish is an old-school restaurant staple in New England; covered in lemony, butter-soaked cracker crumbs, it's a wonderful way to eat mild white fish like cod or haddock. The dish has a long history and relies on two ingredients New Englanders have in abundance: fresh seafood and crackers, which are descended from sailors' hardtack. Fannie Farmer's 1896 "Boston Cooking-School Cook Book" has a recipe for cracker-stuffed halibut, seasoned with butter, salt, pepper and onion juice. Some modern versions use saltines, others use butter crackers like Ritz, and many enrich the crackers with crab meat. This recipe is an easy weeknight variation: Instead of rolling the fish up around the stuffing, which requires long, thin filets, it is generously covered in the stuffing and roasted until the cracker topping is toasted and the fish flakes.

Provided by Sarah DiGregorio

Categories     easy, weeknight, seafood, main course

Time 25m

Yield 4 servings

Number Of Ingredients 10

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Simple, fast, and delicious describes this baked cod recipe. Bake for two sets of 10 minutes each and you have the perfect ten dinner! This recipe was a favorite request from a local restaurant. They closed after years in business and we are happy to share a version of their most requested recipe. I serve this with rice pilaf and fresh spinach that has been lightly seared in olive oil and garlic. Yummy!

Provided by Pam

Categories     Seafood     Fish

Time 35m

Yield 4

Number Of Ingredients 9

Nutrition Facts : Calories 279.9 calories, Carbohydrate 9.3 g, Cholesterol 71.5 mg, Fat 16.1 g, Fiber 0.4 g, Protein 20.9 g, SaturatedFat 8.2 g, Sodium 282.3 mg, Sugar 1.2 g

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