Although I’ve cooked cod and other white fish a multitude of ways including battered fish and chips, I find the best results come when it’s breaded and seared. This gives the fish a nice crunch and also holds it together better. The easiest and pretty fool proof way is breading it first in flour, then egg and then a Panko bread crumbs. I modified the recipe to gluten free using rice Chex cereal and found the results to be equally tasty. Rice Chex cereal works well as a Panko replacement. Just grind it up in the blender and you have your crumbs ready to go. Try serving this with quinoa and steamed chard as a great summer dinner.
Crusted cod with mustard caper sauce
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Author: Handmade health
Recipe type: gluten free dinner
Serves: 4
Ingredients
- 4 6 oz fillets of cod
- 1 egg
- ½ cup brown rice flour
- 1 cup rice Chex cereal
- salt and pepper
- Mustard caper sauce:
- 2 TBLS whole grain mustard
- 1 TBLS capers, drained
- 1 TBLS chopped or dried tarragon
- 4 TBLS olive oil
Instructions
- Take out fillets and dry completely with paper towel
- On three separate plates, place flour, beaten egg and ground Chex cereal
- Add a small amount of salt and pepper to each plate
- Heat pan to medium high heat
- Place fish first in flour and then completely in egg
- Let egg drip off and press firmly into Chex crumbs until completely covered
- Place oil in pan and place fish crumb side down
- Cook approx 4 min until crispy brown
- Gently turn over and cook another 2 minutes depending on the thickness of the fillets
- Carefully remove the fish from the pan.
- In a separate bowl, mix together mustard capers, tarragon and olive oil
- Place heated quinoa as your base , stack with steamed chard and top with breaded fish
- Add mustard caper sauce over the top of the fish and your done.