Blue Cod and Bacon

SpotX Wild Foods Recipe from Jeff Glover
Prep:10 minutes Cook:20 minutes Difficulty:1

Ingrediants:

50 grams blue cod fillets.
Lemon-pepper fish seasoning.
1 cup plain flour.
3 rashers bacon, chopped finely.
3 large tomatoes, firm and diced.
½ onion.
½ teaspoon of crushed garlic.
Basil leaves, roughly shredded.
Lemon-infused avocado oil.
Sea salt and pepper, to taste.

Directions:

Mix flour and lemon-pepper fish seasoning in a plastic bag.
Add fish and coat with seasoned flour.
Heat avocado oil in frying pan over a medium heat.
Cook for 2-3 minutes a side, turning once.
Set in warming drawer on hot serving plate.
Cook bacon in frying pan until crispy brown.
Add onion and cook till soft.
Add tomatoes and garlic then cover for 5 minutes.
Stir in basil, adding salt and pepper.
Leave the lid off the pot and reduce to a sauce.
Serve over cod.
Garnish with a little chopped coriander and a squeeze of lemon.

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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.