Garlic-Butter Baked Fish with a Soft Crumb Crust

Name: Garlic-Butter Baked Fish with a Soft Crumb Crust
Prep time: 25 min
Yield: 3 servings
Ingredients: 400 g white fish fillets; 50 g breadcrumbs (fresh or dried); 20 g parmesan, finely grated; 30 g butter, melted; 1 tbsp garlic-infused oil; 10 g parsley, finely chopped

By Robin Tasker · Serves 3 · 25 min

Pouch load

1.3/10

Likely gentler

Flavour

6.0

Punchy

BlandBam

Nutrition

Very nutritious

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Fibre & prebiotics +

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Omega-3 fats +

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Three lenses: how gentle on the gut, how nourishing, how tasty — because gentle isn't the same as healthy. How the scores work →

Dinner Pescatarian Low-FODMAP Egg-free Nut-free Shellfish-free Sesame-free Under 30 min

Soft white fish baked under a golden garlic-butter breadcrumb and parmesan crust — gentle, quick, and one of the easiest proteins to digest.

White fish is one of the gentlest proteins going — soft, lean and quick to cook. The only risk is it being a bit plain, and a garlic-butter crumb crust sorts that out completely.

You press a mix of breadcrumbs, parmesan and garlic butter over the top and bake it until golden. The crust gives a little crunch and a lot of flavour; the fish underneath stays soft and flaky.

Ingredients

Serves

400 g white fish fillets
50 g breadcrumbs (fresh or dried)
20 g parmesan, finely grated
30 g butter, melted
1 tbsp garlic-infused oil
10 g parsley, finely chopped

Method

Heat the oven to 200°C and sit the fish fillets in a lightly oiled baking dish. Season with a little salt.
Mix the breadcrumbs and parmesan with the melted butter, garlic-infused oil and chopped parsley until the crumbs are evenly coated — this is your garlic-butter crumb.
Press the crumb mixture over the top of each fillet in an even layer.
Bake for 12–15 minutes (depending on thickness), until the fish flakes easily and the crumb is golden and crisp. Serve with mash or rice and a soft green veg.

Gentler swaps

The crumb: a toasted garlic crumb gives gentle crunch on soft fish. Made with garlic-infused oil, there's no raw-garlic bite.

Goes with: garlic-butter mash or stock-glazed carrots.

For the family

Cook once — your gentle version, plus how to pep it up for everyone else.

Bake the one dish. For the others, add a pinch of chilli flake or lemon zest to their crumb before it goes on, and serve theirs with a squeeze of lemon and a sharp salad — yours stays gentle.

Scores are modelled estimates, not medical advice. Everyone's gut is different, and tolerance changes over time. Reintroduce foods one at a time, and follow your own medical team's advice.