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Simple and delicious baked haddock fillets (or any white fish) drizzled with brown butter. Brown butter takes any piece of white fish from good to gourmet!
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Today I’m sharing my (not so) secret trick to make each & every piece of white fish you make taste marvelous. It’s simple, it’s easy, it’s….butter! Brown butter to be exact 😉
I LOVE all things fish & seafood. It’s delicate, it’s delicious & it’s nutritious. To top it all off – seafood is quick to make and doesn’t require many ingredients to turn into something spectacular.
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What’s great about this recipe is it can be made with any white fish you prefer. I use haddock but flounder, cod, halibut, pollock, grouper, hake – really any mild white fish you’d like will be wonderful. You spritz it with a bit of olive oil, lightly season it and bake for about 15- 20 minutes. Drizzle it with brown butter and voilá – dinner is served!
I swear, brown butter takes a simple piece of fish from good to gourmet. Serve with your favorite green veggie or salad and dinner is complete! This fabulous dinner can be all yours without much time, attention or clean up.
It’s wonderful to know simple changes & additions to our daily diet can have such a positive impact on our health. Cheers to delicious seafood and better health 🙂
Thanks so much for stopping by!
-Amanda-
Baked Haddock with Brown Butter
Ingredients
- 12-16 oz of haddock fillets or white fish of choice
- olive oil
- salt pepper, paprika & dried parsley
- 2 tablespoon butter
Instructions
- For Fish:
- Preheat oven to 350°F
- Line a cookie sheet with aluminum foil and lightly grease by spritzing or drizzling olive oil over it.
- Place fish, skin side down, on cookie sheet.
- Lightly spritz or drizzle olive oil on top of fish fillets.
- Lightly season with a sprinkle of salt, pepper, paprika & parsley.
- Bake for 15 – 20 minutes (depending on thickness) until fish flakes easily with fork.
- Drizzle with brown butter and serve immediately. Enjoy 🙂
- For Brown Butter:
- Add 2 tablespoons butter to a saucepan. Don’t walk away, stay by saucepan during whole process – it only takes a few minutes start to finish and can burn easily.
- Over medium to medium high heat, melt butter and continually whisk or swirl butter.
- Butter will start to foam up, keeping whisking or swirling. You’ll notice little brown specks at the bottom of the pan. Remove from heat and continue to whisk or swirl for a few seconds.
- This stuff is HOT so don’t go sticking pastry brushes in it right away (I speak from experience lol). Let rest for a minute and use a metal spoon to drizzle over fish.
Yum! This fish looks fantastic. I would never thought of putting brown butter on fish. I love the idea.
Thanks Dawn! Oh my goodness – I LOVE brown butter with all my fish & seafood. I try not to be a total pig about it – but I could seriously use that whole pot of brown butter myself just to dip. Soooooo good ♥
I just made this omg delicious thank you for recipe mine looked just like yours
Who knew. So simple & so delicious!
Right!?!? Brown butter does extraordinary things to seafood! So glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for stopping by Kim 🙂
Very yummy served with roasted sweet potatoes, doubled the butter & topped the sweet potatoes with it as well.
Hi Chris! Glad to hear you enjoyed it – this is my favorite way to prepare fish.
Oh, and that brown butter, it’s a struggle for me to not triple it. I could pour it on everything ♥
Thanks so much for stopping by!
I will surely try. The Brown butter
Would salmon work in this recipe, or should it be a white fish? Thanks in advance!
Hi Linda. It’s best with a white fish – but if you’re a salmon lover – go for it!
Thanks for stopping by 🙂
This sounds great, I have some haddock in the fridge that I need to cook. Would this also work on shrimp?
Hi Rachel! Brown butter compliments all fish & seafood wonderfully! I love it with shrimp!
I made this tonight with green beans as the side and it was delicious! Thank you so much, I’ve never heard of brown butter!
Nice. I’ll try this recipe tonight. Thanks
Hope you enjoyed it!
Amazing!! I was nervous about making Haddock and cant have citrus so that knocked out most other recipes….but now I’m glad because I may have missed this otherwise.
Quick, easy and so delicious!!!
Thanks Susan! Glad you enjoyed!
Thanks for stopping by ♥
Thank you, Amanda…..I cooked dinner tonight to give my wife a rest….a promotion from my usual role as prep cook. Your recipe for haddock with browned butter worked beautifully, and is virtually foolproof, which is what I need at age 81. I look forward to more pearls from you.
I was searching for a easy and quick recipe for haddock I defrosted. I was running late with dinner so I didn’t have much time. I was a bit intimidated by the preparation of the brown butter. I tried this & it was really delicious. Preparing the brown butter was a cinch! I’d make this again
So glad you enjoyed it Vickie ♥
Does it matter if you use salted or unsalted butter?
Hi Maggie. I really prefer salted butter when making brown butter.
That Brown butter sauce is delicious!! Made this recipe with rice. I plated the haddock on top of the rice and drizzled the brown butter on top. Made a great sauce for both the fish and the rice!!!
This was excellent. Last time I cooked my haddock in a lemon sauce and while I enjoyed it, my family was fussing. So this is why I went looking for a different flavor. I didnt even know brown butter was such a thing…I was picturing brown sugar mixed with butter haha…but wow!!! My fussy 6 year old son said aloud, “Mom! This is amazing” …and went on to name all the good food I cook….thanks so much for this recipe :))
So glad you enjoyed the recipe Shari!
Seriously though – brown butter is magic to ALL fish & seafood!
Now if I could only get my 4 year old to eat fish…..
Thanks for stopping by ♥
Fantastic fish! I finally got my brown butter just right. It’ll go on many a dish. Thank you
I am TERRIBLE when it comes to cooking fish!!!
However this simple receipe is SIMPLY delicious!!!!
Thank you SO much for sharing this!!!
I am TERRIBLE when it comes to cooking fish!!!
Usually it turns out dry and tasteless.
However this simple receipe is SIMPLY delicious!!!!
Thank you SO much for sharing this!!!
I love that this is so simple. No breading, etc. Will try with rice or red potatoes. Thanks!
Hi Amanda! Thanks for sharing your secret, the recipe looks great!! Would you be able to make it with smoked haddock?
I made this tonight and we loved it. So easy and delicious, the brown butter lifts the taste up even further. Thank you for sharing, we’ll make this again for sure!
I’m always looking for new ways to make haddock -it’s easy to fall into a rut with this fish. I made this recipe….it’s delicious! I could serve this to company! As well, It’s a very easy recipe. Definitely a keeper!
I was looking for something quick and easy for the haddock I had taken out for dinner, I tried this recipe and I was floored at how easy and delicious it was. This will be my go to for fish my whole family loves it.
Made it on the fly tonight…and it AMAZING! Added some light bread crumbs on top and had it with angel hair pasta. The brown butter was perfect on both. Thanks!
So love this recipe turned out great. Will be making this fish again soon
Made this recipe tonight very very simple and delicious. Love the brown butter.. Perfect topping for fish. I’m going to use grow butter on all my fish. Thank you
This was a delicious fresh taste to our fish! Thanks 🙂
DE LI CIOUS!!! You win me over. I never liked baked white fish. So glad I came across your recipe, it turned out so yummy! And to make things better, it was easy to prepare. Thank you Amanda!
This was a huge hit at a dinner party! Everyone raved about it. Said it was like eating at a fancy restaurant. So simple yet so elegant. Thanks for sharing!
Made this for dinner tonight. It was delicious and so easy. Will definitely make it again.
Always thought I couldn’t make fish taste as good as what we get when we eat out. I tried the Brown Butter Fish and we loved it. Have been making it ever since, thank you so much for a delicious recipe.
A very neat trick is to take butter you use to pan-sear scallops (it pretty much turns to brown butter at the end of the process) and pour that over your fish. Bam, scallop flavored brown butter for your fish!
I made it for my family this evening and we all really enjoyed it. I will definitely make it again.
Despite seemingly simple, this recipe is absolutely fantastic. Third week in a row of making this as a ‘treat’ for myself as the other family members are not fans of fish other than salmon. The browned butter makes this scrumptious. I add sliced garden fresh cherry tomatoes and bake those at the same time.
I just came across your recipe the other day; I was looking for something different for haddock. This is absolutely delicious and have used it with both haddock and halibut since. A very simple, quick way to prepare white fish that friends will rave about.
I do not make fish. My husband is on a diet and eats alot of fish. At the last minute with bad weather he wasn’t in the mood to grill fish. I looked up baked fish, found your recipe and picked it for the simplicity of making it. It was beyond easy and my husband was raving about it! Said it was better than any restaurant. Thank you! I now know how to make fish for dinner!
Made this tonight for dinner and it was delicious! Thanks!
Fantastic recipe so lovely xx
We are trying this recipe tonight! It looks delicious. Thank you!
We made this recipe last night for dinner, along with mashed potatoes and sautéed asparagus and onion with Jamaican Jerk Seasoning. The whole meal was excellent, loved the brown butter on top of the fish.
We have Just a question, on the “COURSE Fish &, Seafood”, what does the amp stand for?
This was AMAZING!
I was looking for something different with haddock and we absolutely loved it! Simple and delicious.
Have made this twice, The brown butter sauce is SO FREAKING good. This is my go to recipe for fish love it thanks
Delicious recipe, thank you! I’m from the northeast so haddock was always on my mom’s menu. I missed having it for decades but 3 years ago I found it at Whole Foods. Their fish is amazing and not very expensive. This recipe will be on our food rotation. I had forgotten about brown butter. Highly recommend the recipe! Thank you, Amanda!
I was worried about all the butter but a little goes a long way. It was really really good. Made just as directed. Perfect. Wish I could post a pic
The haddock was oh so delicious cooked this way and the brown butter was so good
Please try adding capers just before the brown butter and fresh tarragon or parsley, a few chilli flakes some lemon or preserved lemon slices and black pepper – makes this great recipe even greater
So I have to admit I did not make the brown butter. I am a nurse and reheating things at work does not always work out. But even without the brown butter this was excellent. Flavorful and so delicious. When I am home i plan on making this again with the brown butter to really try it but those of you that work even without it. it is amazing with just the few spices