MaryLee's Healthy Food and Easy Cooking - Spinach Cod Wraps

Hello,

I said on one of my earlier blogs I would give a few ideas about how to cook some fish for a healthier option than red meat.

I am getting older, I have reached that critical age, where I hear of more and more people around my age suffering from blocked arteries having to have heart by pass surgery or have had heart attacks and I’m only in my 40’s! Scary!

More and more younger people are suffering from illness that we used to relate to people in their late 60, 70’s or higher not before they reached 50.

More people are eating convenient food, easy accessable foods that are higher in fats and sugars. This leads to more people suffering from high cholesterol, diabetes, blocked arteries and heart problems to name a few and these have now become a younger person’s illness.

Because of this, we have cut back on our fats and started adding more fish to our diet and looking at a healthier ways in cooking meals.

Meals can become mundane if done the same way each time you prepare them so here is a variation to baking fish.

Spinach Cod Wraps will serve 4

4 - 6oz pieces of cod
8 – 10 large spinach leaves
3 tbsp (tablespoon) white wine
1 lemon cut in wedges
½ tsp (teaspoon) grated nutmeg
4 tbsp chopped parsley

Season cod with pepper

Blanch spinach leaves in boiling water 10 seconds then place in cold water. Lay flat on paper towel pat to dry.

Wrap the spinach around the cod until completely covered. (may have to use more spinach leaves depending on size of leaf)

Place in lightly oiled oven proof pan or roasting tin. Sprinkle with nutmeg, pour over the wine and cover with lid or tin foil (aluminium foil).

Place in preheated oven 350 F or 180 C and poach for 15 minutes.

Serve with wedge of lemon, on a bed of rice.

Or alternatively with a salad, boiled new potatoes or roasted vegetables.