Garlic and Dill Seafood Bake

Name: Garlic and Dill Seafood Bake
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 1 cup unsalted butter (melted); 3 tbsp fresh dill (finely chopped); 2 tbsp garlic (minced); 1/4 tsp salt (or to taste); 1 pinch black pepper (to taste); 24 oz baby red potato ((1 bag)); 4 fillets cod ((big as you can find) or other white fish (halibut, flounder, etc)); 30 shrimp (raw, peeled and deveined with tail on); 2 medium lemon (sliced (12 slices total)); 4 ears corn (husked and halved)

Published on 01/15/18 By Chrisy

This restaurant-quality seafood bake is made by wrapping fish, shrimp, and seasonings in foil packets and then cooked in the oven. Perfect for a quick weeknight dinner or serving at a party. Customize it with your favorite veggies or fish!

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Garlic and Dill Seafood Bake! This restaurant-quality seafood bake is made by wrapping fish, shrimp, and seasonings in foil packets and then cooked in the oven. Perfect for a quick weeknight dinner or serving at a party. Customize it with your favorite veggies or fish! | HomemadeHooplah.com

No matter if it’s the raging summer or the dead of winter, I don’t let anything keep me from getting my seafood fix.

Because you see, me and seafood, we’re likethis.

You can’t see it, but right now I’m holding up my hand with two fingers crossed. Writing that I like shrimp is simply not enough; I have to act it out the emotion, even if I’m sitting in a room by myself and looking like a total loon.

Yes, it’s that serious.

Seafood is my favorite indulgence for a lot of reasons, but I think the biggest has to be that it doesn’t have to be a seasonal affair. Thanks to my trusty oven and a couple good skillets, I can make my favorite seafood dishes all year ’round.

And, between you and me, I sometimes prefer it when I don’t have to brave the heat or the cold to operate a grill. This is probably why all of my favorite ways to enjoy seafood can be made in the climate-controlled comfort of my own kitchen.

And today, I’ve got another yet recipe to add to my crustacean-craving-curing arsenal:

Garlic and dill seafood bake.

This is the kind of dish that hits all the bases in my house, because while I’m the crazy-obsessed shrimp fanatic, an old friend of mine, well… isn’t.

He thinks shrimp are okay, but they’re not in his top ten foods – or, heck, not even in his top five. He does, however, like fish, corn, and potatoes. He tells me quite often that I don’t make enough “plain fish” for him – which to him means fish with only a little salt and butter – and I’ve told him multiple times that recipes like that don’t really work for a food blog.

So to meet somewhere in the middle, I’ve had to get a little creative in fulfilling his tastes and my desire to share tasty recipes with readers like you.

Given all of this, you probably imagine what the response was when these lightly-yet-deliciously flavored seafood packets hit the dinner table at my house.

Shrimp for me plus lightly flavored fish and extras for him?

You can’t see it, but I’ve got my arms in the air, raising the roof, looking like a loon again, because I totally nailed it.

I’m really glad I’m the only one in the house right now.

How to make a seafood bake

One of my favorite things about this recipe is how easy it is to customize, because no matter what ingredients you use, the instructions for how to set it up will remain the same.

Step 1 – Melt butter and flavor it with your favorite herbs and spices. In the case of this recipe, I used fresh dill and minced garlic.

Other seasonings you can add to the melted butter:

Fresh Parsley
Fresh Cilantro
Fresh Basil
Fresh Spinach
baking sheets
Cajun seasoning

Step 2 – Lay out some long pieces of foil, then arrange your chosen seafood in the center. I kept it simple and used cod and shrimp (both were on sale at my grocery store at the time).

Other types of seafood you can use:

Tilapia
Salmon
Scallops
Clams
Halibut

Other meats you can use (note that all of these should be cooked before adding them to the foil packet):

Sausage
Bacon
Ham

Step 3 – Add some raw veggies and/or fruits for flavoring. I used a bag of small red potatoes, corn, and some sliced lemons.

Other veggies you can use:

Zucchini
Squash
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Asparagus
Carrots
Red, green, or yellow peppers
Red or sweet onions

Other fruits you can use:

Limes
Oranges
Pineapples
Apples

Step 4 – Wrap up the foil packets and bake!

How to cook a seafood bake

When it comes to seafood bakes, you can go about cooking them two ways:

In the oven. This is my preferred method and how I’ve always baked seafood packets. The cook time usually depends on the size of the filet, with an 8oz or smaller taking 20-30 minutes and 8oz or bigger taking 30-40 minutes.

On the grill. For the true cookout feel, grilling a seafood packet is the way to go. Once the grill is warmed up, the packets typically only need 15-20 minutes to be cooked through.

If you’re ever in doubt of how long to cook your chosen seafood, you can either ask someone behind the deli counter at the time you purchase your seafood OR you can always do a visual check of the seafood as it bakes. Check out these tips on how to tell if a fish is done.

notes & tips for this seafood bake:

Before making this recipe, make sure you have plenty of aluminum foil and large baking sheet on hand!
When your seafood bake is ready, there’s no need to remove the food from the foil – just serve the foil-packets as is, so that the foil creates its own plate. Doing this will make cleanup so much easier because all you’ll have to do is wrap up the foil and throw everything away.

Other great seafood recipes:

This recipe was originally posted on September 23rd, 2015. It received a TLC update on January 15th, 2018.

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