I used to love a typical Norwegian fish bake-dish with lots of macaroni inside
and with bread crumbs on the top. Naturally, this dish is not on the menu for
me any more, and I was so happy to find a recipe for a dish just as good, but
healthier. Whereas I used to find it
ready-made in the freezer in my local store at home, I had to make this dish
from scratch. And surprisingly, it’s not much more time-consuming than buying the
ready-made dish. Changing to a low carb lifestyle meant that I had to learn how to
cook from ‘’scratch’’ rather than relying on ready-made food full of
preservatives and cheap ingredients. And time after time it has surprised me
how easy it actually is to cook healthy, using whole foods. Coming from someone who used to be a fast-food queen and who hated spending more than 5 minutes in the kitchen, it's quite a change... Well, enough
rambling on, here is the recipe:
600 g white fish (I used whiting)
2 onions
4 eggs
200 ml cream
Salt, pepper, dill, other spices to taste
Grated cheese
Chop the onions while you boil
the fish. When the fish is well-cooked, mix fish with onion in an oven-safe
tray. Beat the mixture of eggs, cream and spices lightly. Pour it over the
fish. Sprinkle cheese on top and put the dish in the (pre-heated ) oven. Bake
on 225 degrees C for around 25 minutes.
Voila!
Let me know if you have got any suggestions on how to spice this dish up a notch: With other vegetables or perhaps some interesting herbs. I often find that plain fish can be a bit boring, but by making a fish-bake like this I ''camouflage'' the fish with lots of good stuff, so I trick myself into eating fish more often.
This recipe is inspired by the wonderful Lena Beatrice who has the blog www.lenabeatrice.net Unfortunately for the English-speaking world, it's in Norwegian... But google translator is improving day by day, so it's worth trying the translator function to see if it's making any sense.
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ReplyDeleteHi! Kansas City here :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for a great recipe but my family and I have to say that there was way to much onions :( . So I'll make again soon but with half a cup or one cup but finely chopped onions. All the best!