Pollock or Haddock With Spinach
Published January 15, 1983
- Total Time
- About 1 hour
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Ingredients
5 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons chopped onion
4 cups fresh spinach, washed and well-drained
3 tablespoons flour
1 ½ cups milk
1 tablespoon minced parsley
Salt and freshly ground pepper
2 pounds pollock or haddock fillets
½ cup heavy cream
2 tablespoons freshly grated Parmesan cheese
Nutritional analysis per serving (6 servings)
8 grams carbs; 148 milligrams cholesterol; 339 calories; 5 grams monosaturated fat; 1 gram polyunsaturated fat; 12 grams saturated fat; 21 grams fat; 1 gram fiber; 641 milligrams sodium; 31 grams protein; 4 grams sugar
Note: The information shown is Edamam’s estimate based on available ingredients and preparation. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.
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Preparation
- Step 1
Melt two tablespoons of the butter in a large skillet. Add the onion and saute until soft but not brown. Finely chop spinach and add to skillet, cooking over medium heat until the spinach has wilted and most of the liquid in the pan has evaporated.
- Step 2
In a separate sauce pan melt the remaining three tablespoons of butter. Add the flour and cook for a minute or two. Add the milk and continue cooking over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the sauce comes to a boil, is thickened and smooth. Remove from heat. Add two-thirds cup of the sauce to the spinach. Add parsley, salt and pepper to taste to the spinach.
- Step 3
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly butter a shallow baking pan. Season fish with salt and pepper, arrange in the baking pan and spread the spinach over the fillets.
- Step 4
Add the cream to the remaining sauce in the saucepan and heat it through. Season with salt and pepper, spread it over the spinach and fish, sprinkle with grated cheese and bake 35 to 40 minutes.
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I substituted some items because of what I had, which yielded a very flavorful dish. As some suggested, Tarragon (lots of it) instead of parsley, shallots instead of onion, and Greek yoghurt instead of cream. I added a handful of garlic cloves. A keeper.
I used 3 c spinach and added a minced red bell pepper. I just combined all the white sauce with all the veggies at once; it saved me a step and turned out well! Very rich and tasty.
Cooked today for 2. Was great. One question - what should you do with the skin of the Haddock? Remove it? Skin up? Skin down? we baked it skin down, but the skin in the end didn't seem to add much since it was sort of soggy and not particularly able to stand up to the taste of the sauce.
Not your average fish preparation. We usually prepare fish plainly, grill it or bake it and squeeze lemon juice on it when it's done. For this recipe, you prepare a white sauce and then bake the haddock in it with the spinach and onions. By definition, a white sauce is rich, so I wondered how we'd like it (or not...), but it was delicious! Both my husband were enthusiastic about it, so it's assured that I'll make it again. We just had a large green salad ~ no other vegetable or rice. Perfect!
Made this on a whim since I had fresh haddock, but used frozen chopped spinach, which worked just fine for creamed spinach and saved a lot of time. I also didn’t have milk and cream so used half & half. For seasoning, I didn’t add any fresh herbs, I think that would have helped. Added crushed red pepper and shallot instead of onion to the spinach. Next time I’ll cut the white sauce with some acid. Served with garlicky roasted yellow potatoes, which was a good accompaniment. I’d make it again — easy enough and a good comforting winter fish dish.
Too little spinach -- too much milk and cream. No need to cook the fish and then cover it in the greens and cook again!! We made adjustments and it was tasty, but to follow these instructions would have been a disaster.