Description
The zucchini slices are beautiful wrapped around the fresh fish. A drizzle of homemade scented olive oil makes this a delicious and very healthy dinner choice.
Ingredients
Scale
- INGREDIENTS FOR THE ROSEMARY OIL:
- 10 sprigs (each about 4 inch/10 cm long) fresh rosemary
- One 17-oz./500-ml bottle extra virgin olive oil
- FOR THE FISH:
- Four 5– to 6-ounce/160-g skinless black cod filets (Sarah’s note: I just used regular cod)
- 3 zucchini (each at least 7 inches/18 cm long), cut lengthwise on a Japanese mandolin into 1/16-inch/.2-cm slices (Sarah’s note: I used 1/8 inch instead and that worked better for me)
- 4 sprigs (each about 4 inch/10 cm long) fresh rosemary
Instructions
- TO MAKE THE ROSEMARY OIL:
- Using the back of a large chef knife, bruise the rosemary as much as possible.
- Place the bruised rosemary in a small saucepan with the extra virgin olive oil and gently warm the oil over medium-low heat for about 5 minutes or just until it is lukewarm.
- Reserve the olive oil bottle.
- Remove the saucepan from the heat and set aside to allow the rosemary to infuse the olive oil with as much flavor as possible (4 to 6 hours is ideal, however a smaller amount of time will still give you a nice rosemary infused flavor). (Sarah’s note: have fresh bread handy for taste testing!!)
TO PREPARE THE FISH:
- Preheat the oven to 400°F/205°C.
- Sprinkle the fish with salt and pepper.(Sarah’s note: Cod is VERY mild so season it really well to bring out some flavor)
- Lay about 6 zucchini slices horizontally on the work surface to overlap each other slightly and create a 5×7-inch/13×18-cm rectangle.
- Place 1 black cod filet on top of the zucchini slices and wrap the zucchini around the fish to cover completely.
- Repeat with the remaining zucchini slices and black cod filets.
- Heat 1 tablespoon/15 ml of the rosemary olive oil in a large nonstick frying pan over medium-high heat.
- Place the fish, zucchini-seam side down, in the pan and cook for about 2 minutes or until the zucchini is lightly colored.
- Using a metal spatula, carefully turn the fish over, folding the ends of the zucchini slices over the fish if necessary. Don’t worry if some of the zucchini slices unfold a bit. Once the fish is cooked the zucchini will soften and can be folded around the fish again before it is served. (Sarah’s note: this just didn’t work for me. Broiling the zucchini afterwards was the only way I could keep it all together)
- Add 4 sprigs of rosemary to the pan (Sarah’s note: soak these before hand or they will burn in the oven) (these will be used for garnish).
- Transfer the pan to the oven and bake the fish for about 8 minutes (the time will depend on the thickness of the filet), or until the fish is just cooked through.
TO SERVE:
- Drizzle 1 tablespoon/15 ml of the rosemary oil around the plates.
- Garnish with the roasted rosemary sprigs and serve. Pour the remaining rosemary oil into the reserved olive oil bottle, discarding the rosemary sprigs, and reserve the oil for another use.
- Prep Time: 30 mins
- Cook Time: 30 mins