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# Meatless Friday: Cod with Caper-Mustard Sauce

Nov 4, 2016 8:00:41 AM  |  by [Barb Szyszkiewicz](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/barb-szyszkiewicz-ofs)

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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.

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#### 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](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/tag/meatless-friday/).**

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### [Barb Szyszkiewicz](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/barb-szyszkiewicz-ofs)

Barb Szyszkiewicz, senior editor at [CatholicMom.com](http://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](http://franciscanmom.com) and her family’s favorite recipes with nutrition information at [Cook and Count](http://cookandcount.wordpress.com). Barb is the author of *[The Handy Little Guide to Prayer](https://amzn.to/2LQB2oL)* and * [The Handy Little Guide to the Liturgy of the Hours](https://amzn.to/3wbDB8k)*, available from Our Sunday Visitor.

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