
Dress up plain baked fish fillets with a 4-ingredient sauce. This dinner takes just minutes to make but looks and tastes fancy enough for company. It's low in carbs too! If there are sauce-avoidant children at the table, serve the sauce in a gravy boat rather than pouring it over the fish.
Cod with Caper-Mustard Sauce
Makes 6 servings
6 cod fillets (6 oz. each)
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
2 TBL olive oil
SAUCE:
1 TBL butter
1 1/2 tsp Dijon mustard
juice of 1 lemon (about 1 oz. lemon juice)
1 TBL capers, drained
Preheat oven to 400°. Brush a 9X13-inch glass baking dish with olive oil. Place fish fillets in dish. Season with salt and pepper.
Bake fish 10-12 minutes.
While fish is cooking, make the sauce. Combine sauce ingredients in small pan over low heat until butter is melted. Keep warm until fish is ready to serve.
What's coooking? Find all our Meatless Friday featured recipes here.
Copyright 2016 Barb Szyszkiewicz
About the Author

Barb Szyszkiewicz
Barb Szyszkiewicz, senior editor at CatholicMom.com, is a wife, mom of 3 young adults, and a Secular Franciscan. Barb enjoys writing, cooking, and reading, and is a music minister at her parish. Find her blog at FranciscanMom and her family’s favorite recipes with nutrition information at Cook and Count. Barb is the author of The Handy Little Guide to Prayer and The Handy Little Guide to the Liturgy of the Hours, available from Our Sunday Visitor.
Comments