Easiest Way to Cook Yummy Baked Monkfish

Baked Monkfish. If not, you've been missing out on a delicious and versatile fish. Monkfish is a firm white fish with a delicate, sweet flavor. In fact, in some recipes, monkfish even stands in for lobster! (See a couple below.) Here are some favorite recipes for how to cook monkfish.

Some complementary flavors include baked root vegetables with rosemary, or rice topped with the sesame seed and seaweed-based Japanese seasoning furikake. Before roasting monkfish fillets, it's best to quickly sear the fish in a hot pan to achieve some colour and flavour on the outside. The longer you spend searing the monkfish, the less time the fish should be cooked in the oven. You can have Baked Monkfish using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Baked Monkfish

1. Prepare 6 of monkfish tails, skinned.
2. You need 1 large of green bell pepper, cut in half and sliced.
3. It's 2 small of onions, peeled and sliced.
4. Prepare 4 medium of tomatoes, sliced.
5. You need 6 piece of tinfoil.
6. You need of garlic butter.
7. Prepare 5 tsp of thyme, chopped.
8. It's 5 tsp of chopped parsley.
9. Prepare 150 grams of butter.
10. Prepare 3 tsp of garlic paste.
11. You need 2 tsp of salt.
12. It's 2 tsp of ground black pepper.
13. It's 2 tsp of fish spice.

The fish can be lightly marinated in oil and herbs if desired, or dusted in seasoned flour to help crisp up the outside. A simple way to bake monkfish is to just brush it with olive oil or butter, season with salt and pepper and place the monkfish in greased baking dish. Pan roasting is a wonderful way to cook monkfish, it gives the outside a little crust and keeps the inside moist. Next, take the fish out to check whether it's cooked thoroughly; the fillets will turn opaque.

Baked Monkfish instructions

1. Preheat oven to 190°C.
2. In a preheated frying pan melt 20 grams of butter and fry the garlic for 2 minutes over a low heat. Mix together the remainder of the ingredients for the garlic butter..
3. Place the tinfoil shining side up. Baste the middle with garlic butter..
4. Put some of the onions on the tinfoil, followed by green bell pepper and tomato..
5. Place the monkfish tails on top of this and baste with the balance of the garlic butter..
6. Put some tomatoes followed by green bell pepper and onions on top of the fish..
7. Wrap the fish up in the tinfoil and bake for 20 minutes..
8. Remove from tinfoil and place under a very hot grill for 5 minutes..

To serve, remove the fillets out of the oven, cut the fillets in half and serve with baked tomatoes. Place Monkfish Fillets in pan & season with salt & pepper. Sprinkle lemon & wine over fish. Next, put the monkfish in a greased baking dish and brush some olive oil on it. I made this more than once following the exact recipe each time.