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Happy Mother’s Day ladies!
I am cooking up one of my favorite dishes to celebrate.
Lemon Pepper Fish with Lemon Butter Rice is the perfect meal to celebrate the special mother in your life.
This dish is so simple to create you still have time to surprise mom!
First, purchase fresh white fish such as red snapper, halibut, or catfish.
Secondly, season the fish with extra virgin olive oil, fresh lemon juice, creole seasoning and black pepper.
I added just a pinch of cayenne pepper for color and spice.
Lastly, marinate the fish for about 1 hour or up to overnight for a richer lemony flavor.
I marinated my fish for 1 hour because I was in a rush and I wanted to eat!
Preheat your oven to 425 degrees and bake the fish for about 20-25 minutes and broil for a couple of minutes to brown the top of the fish.
Don’t forget to baste your fish with the lemon butter pan juices before serving.
Prepare my delicious Lemon Butter Rice while the fish is baking.
Enjoy!
Lemon Pepper Fish with Lemon Butter Rice
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
Ingredients
Scale
- 4 white fish fillets
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon lemon pepper
- 1 teaspoon creole seasoning
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- pinch of cayenne pepper
- 1 lemon juiced
- 1/2 stick of butter
- sliced lemon wedges
For the Rice:
- 4 1/2 cups chicken broth, low sodium
- 3 cups rice
- 1 lemon juiced
- 1 stick butter
- 2 teaspoons dried parsley
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
Instructions
- Rinse fish and pat dry.
- Mix seasoning blend and set aside.
- Coat fish and olive oil and lemon juice.
- Season both sides of fish with spice blend.
- Marinate fish in the refrigerator covered for 1 hour or overnight.
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
- Remove fish from refrigerator and bring to room temperature.
- Top fish with butter wedges and sliced lemon.
- Bake fish at 425 degrees for 25 minutes.
- Broil for 2 minutes to brown the top of the fish.
To Prepare Rice:
- Add broth, butter, lemon juice, parsley and spices to water, bring to boil.
- Stir in rice, cover, reduce heat to low and cook 17 minutes.
- Turn off fire.
- Allow rice to steam about 5 more minutes.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 4
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AnonymousLooks great!
What kind of fish did you use? Tilapia?
Thanks!
RebeccaReply
- creolecontessa@hotmail.com
Hello Rebecca, I think it was Swai or Red Snapper.
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- Anonymous
Should the fish be baked covered or uncovered?
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- creolecontessa@hotmail.com
Hi Ari, I baked it uncovered but sometimes I do cover it with foil.
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- Anonymous
What is in Creole spice? I am in Australia and they don’t have creole spice here.
- creolecontessa@hotmail.com
Hello Tammy, It’s made up of Paprika, Salt, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Cayenne Pepper and a little dried herbs
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- 3
What kind of rice did you use?
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- creolecontessa@hotmail.com
Hello here’s the link! https://www.mahatmarice.com/en-us/products/4/ThaiJasmine.aspx
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- Anonymous
How much water do you need for the rice?
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- Anonymous
What brand of creole spice do you use? I want the best flavor.
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- creolecontessa@hotmail.com
Hi Erica, I use Emerils, Tony’s, Slap Ya Mama’s, be careful with Tony’s because it can be salty.
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- Anonymous
Hi,
Would the flavor be thrown off if I use long grain brown rice instead of jasmine white?
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- creolecontessa@hotmail.com
Hi Kari, I actually love long grain brown rice. I think it’s taste better than white rice but my family disagrees that’s why I always use the white rice. It will be fine to sub brown for white. They even make brown jasmine rice.
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- Anonymous
Would you happen to know the nutrition information, such as the calories??
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- Anonymous
In the rice directions it says add to water but it never mentions any water in ingredientist, tx
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- creolecontessa@hotmail.com
Hello Anna, the water amount should be on the rice package. I use 4 1/2 cups water to 3 cups rice.
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- Anonymous
the rice has to be uncooked before adding to the water right ?
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- creolecontessa@hotmail.com
Hello Jazmine, yes.
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- Anonymous
I would have like to be able to print this off but I could not find where to print there was no + at the bottom of the page to print
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