Sugar-Coated Blue Cod

Name: Sugar-Coated Blue Cod
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: 2 limes.; 100 grams brown sugar.; 100 grams lemon-infused olive oil.; Cracked black pepper.; Sea salt.

SpotX Wild Foods Recipe from Donna Davies
Prep:10 minutes Cook:10 minutes Difficulty:1

Ingrediants:

2 limes.
100 grams brown sugar.
100 grams lemon-infused olive oil.
Cracked black pepper.
Sea salt.

Directions:

Juice and zest the limes.
Mix zest with sugar.
Wet the fish with the lime juice then coat with sugar mix.
Brown under a hot grill.
Season with sea salt and cracked pepper prior to serving.
Great with a green salad.

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Blue cod is to Mainlanders what snapper is to their North Island counterparts.
It is probably the number-one species on their hit lists and this unfortunately has created sustainability issues in the top half of the South Island. Here there are much debated ‘no-take’ and ‘limited-take’ zones in place, along with strict size limits.
Commercially, cod are targeted in ‘pots’ while recreationally, line fishing is the predominant method. If there is a ‘dumb’ fish, it is cod. They have none of the guile or reticence of snapper and will eat just about anything, even bare hooks or ones ‘baited’ with a little bit of shiny cigarette paper. Cod can even be caught on hooks baited with cod.