seasoned with lemon juice and black pepper, sauteed cod fish fillets. Serve with a green salad and buttery rice pilaf.
| Prep Time: | 5 mins |
| Cook Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 15 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
| Yield: | 4 servings |
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 ½ pounds cod fillets
- 1 lemon, juiced
- ground black pepper to taste
Instructions
- In a large skillet, heat oil over medium high heat until hot. Add fillets and squeeze 1/2 of the lemon’s juice over the tops. Sprinkle with pepper to taste. Cook for 4 minutes and turn. Squeeze with the remaining lemon’s juice and sprinkle with pepper to taste. Continue to cook until fillets flake easily with a fork.
Reviews
5 for ease, 1 for (lack of) flavor. Definitely add SALT.
Very easy. Cooking instructions were great! I couldn’t taste the pepper as much as the lemon, but we all liked it. I’ll definitely be making it again. Might experiment with different seasonings too.
tasty and very easy to prepare!
I made this recipe with lemon pepper seasoning and it was delicious !!!
This was really good. I decided to use butter instead of veggie oil and I didn’t have lemon pepper so I just used pepper and pink salt.
easy
This is an easy recipe, but the cod turned out to be really bland. I don’t know what I did wrong, but if I make it again I’m going to experiment with some spices.
Very easy and delicious! Be sure to have a timer so the fish doesn’t overcook (4 min each side).
I swapped veg oil for olive oil. Delicious! Thanks for sharing your cod recipe!
Great recipe! Quick and easy! Tasty, too!
A tasty, basic recipe that doesn’t cover up cod’s naturallysweet, buttery flavor. It is lacking salt though, so I would definitely add a sprinkle, and I found the cook time to be too long for the thickness of my cod pieces (about ¾” thick). You could also get away with using less oil than called for. I would also add the lemon juice after searing, otherwise it tends to ‘steam’ the first and makes it difficult to get a good sear. I served this with roasted veggies and rice.
This recipe proves you don’t need a complicated recipe or an array of seasonings to make the most perfect fish. I will keep this recipe as a fail safe cod recipe especially when I want to make a more complicated vegetable or dessert.
This recipe proves you don’t need a complicated recipe or an array of seasonings to make the most perfect fish. I will keep this recipe as a fail safe cod recipe especially when I want to make a more complicated vegetable or dessert.
loved this. So simple, fast and healthy. Very lemony. I poured the juices over rice.
So easy! Used Cod as called for. The lemon plus seasonings were perfect and simple. Will make again and again!
This recipe looked perfect. Unfortunately I was in a hurry by the time I goofed around and read awhile and by that time I needed to eat right away! I preheated the oven to 375° F. Put cod (any fish will do) in pan that had been generously sprayed with regular Pam, seasoned fish with salt, pepper and lemon pepper then sprayed with Butter Pam and put in oven. When fish looked slightly brown on top, removed it, flipped fish and repeated seasoning. Put back in the oven and when the cod smelled extra good I took it out and ate nearly 5 ounces right out of the pan before I even got a side dish going! I’ll do this again when I get in a pinch and will definitely try the above recipe too!
Followed instructions and fish was tender, flaky, and tasty. Repeated the recipe for lunch today. Thanks!
This was a light and easy cod dish to make. Instead of juice from a lemon, I used lemon juice. It tasted real good. Instead of rice pilaf and salad, I used Birdseye Hawaiian Blend rice. I would make this again in a pinch.
This is amazing.
This is my go-to fish recipe. To step it up a notch I add capers and cherry tomatoes while it’s cooking. Then at th end I throw in a few handfuls of spinach. My husband loves it and he’s not a big fish eater.
This fish is really quick and easy to cook! I would suggest adding several different seasonings for added flavor (salt, garlic powder, sea salt, onions, etc).