BAKED COBIA (SERVES FOUR)

352-542-0356

Thank you to The Crab Plant for the fish. Visit their Fresh Seafood Market or enjoy Cooked Seafood to go. You are welcome to sit at their table and view beautiful Kings Bay while you enjoy your delicious, freshly prepared meal, watching manatees, dolphins, pelicans and boats. Or, you can carry it home; your choice.

10:00-5:30, Fri-Sat 10:00-8:00. 201 NW 5th St. Crystal River

Cooking Directions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Place 2 tablespoons butter in microwave safe bowl. Melt in microwave about 30 seconds. Stir Panko into melted butter.

Place remaining butter in a baking dish large enough to accommodate your fish. Melt in preheated oven. Remove dish from oven.

Coat both sides of fish in melted butter in baking dish.

Ingredients

• 4 tablespoons butter, divided

• 1 cup Panko crumbs

• 2 Cobia steaks or any thick white fish fillet

• Salt and Pepper

• Juice of half a lemon

• Half a lemon cut into wedges

• ¼ cup dry white wine

• 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley

• 2 green onions chopped, white and green

Bake for about 5 to 10 minutes, depending on thickness of fish. Remove from oven, top with lemon juice, wine, chopped green onion and buttered panko. Return to oven and bake until fish is opaque and flakes easily with a fork, about 5 to 10 minutes, again depending on thickness of your fish. (My cobia steaks were thick. I baked for a total of 20 minutes.)

Garnish with parsley and lemon wedges.