Low Calorie Baked Cod

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4.23 from 9 votes

Prep Time5

Cook Time20

Total Time25

Course: Main Course

Servings:

Calories: 190kcal

Ingredients

8 oz cod thick cut if possible, 4 oz portions
8 ind butter crackers like Ritz
¼ tsp salt
¼ tsp black pepper
¼ tsp onion powder
¼ tsp ground cayenne pepper
¼ tsp dried oregano
¼ tsp dried parsley
½ tsp granulated garlic
1 lemon
1 tbsp unsalted butter softened
1 tbsp chardonnay

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400°F.
In a small bowl, crush crackers and add spices. Mix well and add butter, mixing it in well. I usually crumble the crackers into the butter with my fingertips until well combined.
Lightly spray a shallow glass dish with cooking spray and add fish. Drizzle with chardonnay and squeeze half a lemon over the fish.
Gently add the cracker topping onto the fish, slightly pressing it down evenly over the top.
Bake for 20 minutes, or until the fish is opaque and flakes easily. If you have a thinner cut of fish you want to test it around 15 minutes.
Serve with lemon wedges and enjoy!

Notes

Typically my recipes call for fresh herbs but I would recommend dried in this recipe for the concentration of flavors. The amount of fresh herbs necessary would make the topping less likely to hold together while it is cooking.

You can use this topping on any kind of seafood like shrimp, scallops, other types of fish, or chicken. For chicken just make sure to pound it out to a thinner piece so it cooks in time before the topping gets too dark.

I like to keep the small bottles of wine in my pantry for recipes like this so I'm not running out to get wine every time I need a small amount in a recipe. While you only need a tablespoon for this recipe, it adds a lot of flavor to the fish while keeping it moist so I would recommend not cutting it out.

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