Red Lion Inn Swordfish (Crappie)

I’ve always enjoyed her recipes and I’d been wanting some fish so when newly minted Chef Lea Ann posted the recipe for Red Lion Inn Swordfish on her Cooking On The Ranch blog, I knew we had to try it – we like everything with lemon-butter-caper sauce.  Be sure to click the link for the original recipe and I borrowed this photo from her blog to show her version - always a better pic than mine.

I pretty well followed the recipe except I doubled it (shown below) and substituted crappie for the swordfish - it made four good servings with a little sauce left over.

Red Lion Inn Swordfish Crappie - Adapted from Highlands Ranch Foodie

Ingredients:

8 crappie filets (or use your favorite white fish)

S&P to taste

Flour

2 T olive oil

8 T butter

1/2 c white wine

2 t lemon juice

2 T capers

2 cans artichoke hearts chopped

2 jars roasted red peppers drained and chopped

4 C fresh spinach

Instructions:

1. Our crappie filets are shaped like a hand with a little thumb sticking out on them so I cut those pieces off, chopped them, and added to the veggies.

2. Salt and pepper the fish and lightly flour both sides.

3. Heat the oil to shimmering so the pan is really hot. Sear the fish on both sides. About 3 minutes per side. 

4. Remove the fish from the pan and place in 130F oven (we used the toaster oven).

5. Reduce the heat and melt the butter. Swirl in the wine and lemon juice. 

6. Add the other ingredients and cook until the spinach has wilted and the butter sauce coats the back of a spoon.

7. Plate – rice or orzo, then sauce, then fish

As can be seen from the two shots, I need to pay more attention to plating and I cooked mine a little too long - see the spinach difference.

It was easy to make, delicious and, fish lover, Cindy, just raved about it - whatever fish you choose, this is a meal you should try.  I would definitely serve it to company and the little leftover sauce made excellent scrambled eggs the next morning.  Thanks Chef for a great supper and breakfast.

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Have a great day and thanks for stopping by Almost Heaven South.

Larry

10/22/17 Meal Date