This Healthy Haddock Recipe with a ginger and soy-based glaze will throw your taste buds into overdrive and leave plenty of calories for dessert. Try these baked haddock fillets with an Asian twist tonight!
This healthy haddock recipe features baked haddock fillets with an Asian flair, thanks to the classic combination of fresh ginger and soy.
Healthy Haddock Recipe
Baked haddock fillets with an Asian twist
I love seafood but have to admit that I eat far too little of it. It’s one of the things I love to order in restaurants because it seems we just don’t make it often enough at the house.
It’s simple and delicious recipes such as this one that causes me to ask myself just one question: Why?
These baked haddock fillets are bathed in fresh ginger, soy sauce, lemon, and chopped fresh parsley. This makes for a beautiful and healthy haddock recipe.
I suppose I’m fortunate in the sense that I grew up eating fish. Summers were spent at our family camp in the beautiful foothills of New York State’s Adirondack mountains.
Most days found me fishing in the Independence River, whose fresh waters swooshing over the vast bed of rocks helped all of us fall asleep each night.
It was there that I learned to love the taste of fish and I’m proud to say a good share of the trout, bass, sunfish, and bullhead fried up by my mom was caught on one of my hooks.
Over the years and by contemplating countless restaurant menus, my palate’s taste for seafood has expanded.
Shrimp, scallops, mahi-mahi, sea bass, crab legs and of course lobster – I love it all. Let’s not forget salmon, perch (very prominent here in Wisconsin), walleye, and this recipe’s feature: Haddock.
Healthy Haddock Recipe
It’s lean, it’s mild, and it’s versatile. It can be deep-fried, fried in beer batter, broiled, or as in this recipe baked. The fresh ginger in this marinade along with soy sauce, lemon, and chopped parsley gives a solid flavor to this otherwise light-tasting fish.
Scott, who is only half “sold” on eating fish of any kind wolfed down this healthy haddock recipe.
We paired these baked haddock fillets with some oven-roasted Brussels sprouts and baby red potatoes, and once again, I found myself asking, “Why?” Why don’t I make seafood more often?
Give this one a try, and if you or someone in your family isn’t big on seafood, this recipe just might turn their beat around.
More Healthy Fish and Seafood Recipes
- Lemon-Dill Oven Roasted Salmon
- Pan-Seared Scallops
- Grilled Sockeye Salmon
- Fish Tacos
- Grilled Sriracha Salmon
Healthy Haddock Recipe - Ginger Soy Haddock Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 haddock fillets about 1 lb. total
- 3/4 cup low-sodium soy sauce
- 1 chunk of fresh ginger approximately 1"x2", peeled and grated
- 1/4 cup finely diced white onion
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- juice from 1 lemon
- 1/4 cup chopped Italian parsley leaves
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Combine ingredients for marinade in small mixing bowl.
- Arrange haddock in 2 inch deep dish and pour marinade over fish, turning fillets to ensure they are well soaked.
- Cover dish and refrigerate. Allow to marinade for 1 hour, longer for fuller flavor.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Bake fish in marinade for 25 minutes, or until cooked throughout and tender and flaky.
- Serve haddock on warm plates, spoon juices from pan over each serving.
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Sandra | A Dash of Sanity says
What a delicious and healthy meal!
Erin | Dinners,Dishes and Dessert says
Looks delicious and so easy to make! !
Katerina @ diethood .com says
mmm..this sounds incredible!!! YUM!!
Chrissie Baker says
Looks beautiful and tasty! Cannot wait to try this. This recipe looks incredible! Thank you.
Jamielyn says
Looks yummy!
Dan from Platter Talk says
Thanks for the meaningful comment. It is yummy. And so much more.
Amanda says
Oh my this looks so amazing !!
Tanya Harris says
This dinner sounds right up my alley. We love haddock and the added flavors in this really step it up.
Dan from Platter Talk says
Thanks, Tanya. We think you will love this healthy haddock recipe!
Angela says
I’m trying this awesome recipe today .. I’m trying to marinade longer but all my research leads me to see that there is a strong caution against marinading for more than 1 hour because the citrus will cook the fish and it will turn out mushy ..does anyone have any experience with over – marinating ?
Many thanks Angela
Dan from Platter Talk says
Thanks for the great comments and insight, Angela. We hope you enjoy this healthy dish from the sea!
Melanie says
This was very good and as stated – even if you aren’t a lover of fish you will like this one- my non fish eating son loved it! So I’m Haooy! ????
Dan from Platter Talk says
Thanks so much for the feedvack!
Linda (Meal Planning Maven) says
Now guys, you KNOW this is my kind of dish! What time is dinner?
Kim Mancuso says
I was up in your neck of the woods last week, and I brought a 5 lb. box of Icelandic Haddock back to Atlanta with me! Can’t wait to try this recipe with some of it!
Dan from Platter Talk says
Kim, How great to hear from you! Enjoy your autumn and your haddock down in Dixie!
Patty Haxton Anderson says
You know I am a lover of seafood and Haddock is a good meaty, white flaky fish that can hold up to a host of ingredients. This is a beautiful recipe my friend.
Dan from Platter Talk says
Thanks so much for the comments, Patty!