Mahi Mahi Fish Recipe: Your Kids' First Fish Dish
Don’t be afraid of cooking this fish recipe for your kids. It is a great ‘starter fish dish’ for you to try on your family -- the secret is in the seasoning! While I recommend using mahi mahi, you can use different kinds of fish, just be sure the one you select is a white fish, since they are mild in flavor. If you kids ask, just tell them it’s chicken! My recipe feeds a family of four.
Shopping List:
4 - 6 ounce mahi mahi filets (or other white fish)
1 cup of seasoned breadcrumbs
2 tablespoons Parmesan cheese, shredded
1 tablespoon light brown sugar
2 teaspoons of olive oil
1 tablespoon sliced almonds
1 egg (remove yolk, keep egg white)
Equipment: Frying pan with lid or cover. Lightly grease with olive oil and placeover medium heat.
Steps:
Add all dry ingredients (breadcrumbs, cheese, sugar and almonds) to a shallow bowl and mix. The bowl should be shallow enough to allow you to dip the fish fillet. In a separate bowl, mix the egg white with approx. 2 tablespoons of water. The mixture should have a watery ‘snot’ look to it.
Before you place the frying pan on the stove, take a napkin and wipe some olive oil on the napkin. Wipe the fry pan cooking surface with the napkin. This is the best way I know to lightly grease a pan without making a mess. Now, turn on your stove and place pan over medium cooking heat. Allow pan to heat up for 7-10 minutes.
Take one fish fillet, dip it into egg white mixture covering on both sides and place damp fillet into the dry mixture. Make sure both sides are covered in plenty of breading and place fish fillet in fry pan. Place lid or cover over fish.
After 7 minutes (or when the fish filet begin to ‘sweat’ on the top surface, indicating that it's cooking all the way through), it's time to flip! Flip over and cook the other side with lid over the pan for another 5 minutes. Then it's ready to serve. My CookLikeADad tip for this dish is to drizzle a bit of honey on top of the fish. Once it's done, you have completely transformed this fish into a chicken dish… just kidding!
For more information about this recipe, just watch my mahi mahi video demo on YouTube and learn more about CookLikeADad. Enjoy!
Richard “RJ” Jaramillo is a single parent expert, entrepreneur, and founder of SingleDad.com, a website and social media resource dedicated to single parenting, the newly-divorced, re-married, widowed and single dad with children. RJ lives in San Diego with his three kids.
