Fiona’s Phenomenal Fish Packets for the week
- Yield 4 servings
- Prep 15 minutes
- Cook 15 minutes
- Total 30 minutes
Fiona’s Phenomenal Fish Packets for the week sits in the Seafood section of Regbie. The card serves 4 servings. Plan on 30 minutes from the first measure to the plate. The amounts and the method are both written on this page.
Ingredients
Yield: 4 servings
- 1 medium sweet onion, peeled and coarsely chopped (about 1 cup)
- 1¼ cups packed basil leaves
- 1 cup packed cilantro leaves and stems, substitute Italian parsley if you hate cilantro
- ¼ cup packed mint leaves
- ¼ cup Red Boat fish sauce
- 3 peeled garlic cloves
- Zest from 1 lime
- ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon Aleppo pepper, or red pepper flakes
- 2 tablespoons apple juice, or 1 teaspoon maple syrup if you’re not on a Whole30
- 2 medium carrots, peeled and ends trimmed
- 2 medium zucchini, ends trimmed
- Diamond Crystal kosher salt
- 4 6-ounce white fish fillets (skinless & boneless), about ¾-inch thick
- ¼ cup Green Marinade, see above
- 2 limes
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 12 cherry tomatoes, halved
- Fresh cilantro sprigs, skippable
Method
If you don’t have any leftover green marinade in the freezer, blitz up a batch! Throw all the ingredients for the marinade in a high speed blender and purée until you get a smooth, bright-green marinade. Reserve ¼ cup for this recipe, and freeze the rest in a silicone ice cube tray . The future version of you will thank you later.
Warm the oven to 450°F with the rack in the middle. Use a spiralizer , julienne peeler , or your fancy knife skills to cut the zucchini and carrots into thin spirals or matchsticks. Turn the vegetables in a bowl with a little salt—but not too much ’cause the marinade’s well-seasoned.
Grab 4 large sheets of parchment paper, and fold each piece in half. Draw half a heart on each piece of paper so that when you cut them out, you get full hearts.
Open up the parchment pieces and lay them flat. Spread ¼ of the seasoned veggies on one side of the crease in each heart.
Set a fish fillet on top of the veggies. Spread a tablespoon of the green sauce on the filet. Squeeze half a lime on the fish and drizzle with ½ tablespoon of olive oil. Repeat with all 3 packets.
Fold the other half of each parchment heart on top of the fish and tightly crimp the edges together, starting at the top-center of the heart.
Make sure each packet is tightly sealed by turning and crimping the edges. At the pointed bottom end of the hearts, twist the paper to seal well.
Set the packets on a rimmed baking sheet. Leave in the oven for 7-10 minutes or until the fish is cooked to your desired doneness. If your fillets are thicker, they’ll take longer to cook.
If you’re not sure about whether the fish is cooked through, stab the packet with a meat thermometer to know for certain. My kiddos like the fish to be flaky and opaque so the cook aim for a finished cooking temp of 135°F-140°F.
Use a pair of kitchen shears to cut open the packet as soon as they’re done cooking (but be careful—the escaping steam is hot!).
Turn a few of the cut cherry tomatoes and skippable cilantro finish on the cooked fish, and serve.
Kitchen notes
- If you’re crazy for parchment fish packets, make the cook Fish en Papillote (in Parchment) with Citrus, Ginger, & Shiitake !
