So glad you liked it!

Great tip for toasting the bread crumbs beforehand, thanks for sharing!

It’s right in the recipe card at the bottom of the post – you can scroll down to find it or click “jump to recipe” at the top of the page. It takes about 15 minutes, perhaps more if you have thick pieces of fish. Hope that helps!

How long do you cook this for !

Try putting the bread crumbs or panko on a cooky sheet at 350 for 8 mnts keeping an eye on it and mixing it every 2 mnts then back in a bowl and add whatever you use for spices and fat Golden perfection!

So glad you liked it!

So glad you liked it!

So glad you liked it!

Thanks for adding your tips!

Hi! So, the reason why fat is mixed with the breadcrumbs is so they get nice and toasty and golden brown. If you bake them without the added fat, they will likely dry out, turn hard, and potentially burn. I personally would not use a recipe that didn’t have some kind of fat with the breadcrumbs.

That said, you said you drizzled the fish with oil and butter and then topped with breadcrumbs and baked. I would opt instead to leave the fish plain, then just add the breadcrumbs mixed with oil or butter on top of the fish. There will be enough oil that seeps down to help keep the fish moist, plus the breadcrumb layer will trap some of the steam trying to escape the fish to help keep it moist. No need to do oil directly on top of the fish!

On that note, I am also recently limiting my saturated fats and I’ve used olive oil in place of butter for this recipe, and less of it, with great success.

I do find that mixing the breadcrumbs with the oil or butter helps evenly coat them and makes them cook better. That said, if you want to avoid getting a bowl dirty, you could drizzle oil or melted butter on top of the breadcrumbs (and any spices) sprinkled over the fish.

Hope that all helps!

So glad you liked it! I agree, it’s such nostalgic comfort food for any New Englander :-)

I think it might have involved drizzling an oil over the fish, and then breadcrumbs stirred together with paprika, and salt and pepper, amd perhaps fresh parsley, or something similarly simple. I don’t think it had garlic or garlic powder either. It was just a few ingredients, and didn’t use commercially prepared and seasoned breadcrumbs. I liked that I could just make my own dried breadcrumbs from whole wheat bread, and then add whatever herb or spice the recipe called for. Unfortunately, I can’t remember the details.
I loved this recipe because it didn’t use butter, which i need to avoid for heart health (I need to avoid saturated fat), and I didn’t have to get my fingers dirty by combining the breadcrumbs with butter or fat: which made it that much quicker! And it was so tasty!

So I tried this on my own with haddock fillets last night, hoping it would come out right, without having the recipe.

I put the fish on parchment, drizzled 2 fillets with olive oil, and 2 with melted butter, then poured on plain, unseasoned breadcrumbs, (not even S & P) and baked it. I’m not sure if I ate one with the olive oil or the butter. It was disappointing.

Have you ever seen a recipe for baked fish fillets with a breadcrumb topping like I just described described, please? No butter, no parmesan, no store bought breadcrumbs, and no mixing of the fat with the breadcrumbs.

Maybe if I’d just added S & P, that would have been enough. I also baked them at 350 for ~15 minutes, and they came out very dry. But I’m sure the recipe i can’t find didn’t require dipping the fish in oil, egg, or anything else. Just perhaps oil on top, and homemade seasoned breadcrumbs.
Maybe if I’d brushed the oil on for full coverage, and added S & P, paprika, and fresh parsley, that would have been the recipe.
Any ideas, please?
Thank you again. Yours was the most informative and helpful I’ve seen of this recipe.

The butter won’t burn at this baking temperature (350 degrees F)! In fact, I often find that there isn’t enough color on the breadcrumbs and end up broiling it for a minute or so to crisp them up a bit. You may have missed the recipe card at the bottom of the post – it has all the temperature and time instructions (you can scroll down or click “jump to recipe” at the top of the page). Hope that helps and hope you like it!

So glad you liked it!

So glad you liked it! Love the idea of adding lemon pepper!