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Cod in Grape Leaves with Lemon, Olives and Dill

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Total time: 45 min • Prep: 27 min • Cook: 18 min • Serves: 4 • Difficulty: Easy

This dish is typically cooked in olive oil, often up to 1/2 cup! Here, lemon slices tucked into the grape leaf packets provide moisture and flavour without excess calories, and a little bit of oil finishes the dish.

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Ingredients

Olive oil cooking spray

2 spray(s)

Lemon

1 medium

Canned grape leaf(ves)

24 leaf/leaves

Uncooked Atlantic cod

16 oz

Kosher salt

½ tsp(s)

Black pepper

¼ tsp(s)

Fresh dill

½ cup(s)

Small canned black ripe olives

5⅓ tbsp(s)

Olive oil

1 tsp(s)

Romaine lettuce

4 cup(s)

Fresh dill

⅓ cup(s)

Crumbled feta cheese

2 tbsp(s)

Fresh lemon juice

1½ tbsp(s)

Extra virgin olive oil

2 tsp(s)

Kosher salt

⅛ tsp(s)

Black pepper

1 pinch(es)

Dried oregano

1 pinch(es)

Instructions

1

Preheat oven to 400ºF with rack in middle of oven. Coat a 9- X 13-inch baking dish with cooking spray.

2

Cut lemon into 8 very thin slices; remove and discard seeds. Rinse and drain grape leaves.

3

Overlap 6 grape leaves on a large cutting board to form a roughly 8 x 8-inch square (leaves should be damp but not dripping with water; don't leave gaps between leaves.)

4

Place two lemon slices in center of each leaf square, slightly overlapping. Season a piece cod all over with heaping 1/8 tsp salt and generous pinch pepper; place on top of lemons. Sprinkle cod with 2 Tbsp dill and heaping Tbsp olives. Fold bottom of leaf square over fish and then fold in sides like an envelope to enclose fish; fold top of leaves over fish, forming a packet.

5

Place wrapped fish in prepared baking dish, seam side down; repeat with remaining fish ingredients to make four packets. Bake fish until opaque and cooked through, 16-18 minutes for 1 3/4-inch-thick fillets.

6

To make salad, while fish is cooking, toss romaine with feta and dill in a medium bowl; set aside. Combine lemon juice, oil, salt, pepper and oregano in cup; set aside.

7

Invert cooked fish packets onto serving plates; open carefully (packets will be steamy!); drizzle each piece of fish with 1/4 tsp oil and lemon juice, and season to taste, if desired. (Grape leaves used in this recipe are not meant to be eaten). Toss salad with dressing; serve with fish.

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Serving size: 4 oz fish and 1 c salad

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