its the same as I use for everything:
1/2 cup canning salt
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup molasses
8 cups of water
Here y'go (Note: This is our favorite halibut, and other white fish, recipe):
Halibut Parmesan
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FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY - You mix two things up and you bake two times, putting the stuff on separately ...I won't tell you why I know it's easy to miss this detail :wink:
2 Tbsp butter, melted
1 Tbsp minced fresh onion (dried is OK in a pinch)
1 tsp minced chives (dried is OK in a pinch)
1 Tbs mayonaise
1/4 c. grated parmesan cheese (dried)
MIX up 1st four ingredients above, then mix in the parmesan and set this mixture aside for now.
2 halibut filets (approx. 6-oz or bigger, 3/4" thick or
slightly thicker)
2 Tbsp lemon juice
1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce (some like the
new 'Worcestershire Sauce for
Chicken', formerly know as
'White Wine Worcestershire
Sauce')
Black pepper to taste
PUT the filets in a shallow baking pan (skin-side down if the skin is still on the fish). Mix the Worcestershire sauce and lemon lightly, then pour over the fish. I prefer the regular Worcestershire sauce, believing that it adds a certain richness that you don't get from the chicken/white wine Worcestershire sauce. Use what you personally prefer. That reminds me ...feel free to enhance the mixture with a bit of wine wine too but don't over do it. Sprinkle with black pepper to taste.
BROIL until barely cooked. Time will vary from around 4 minutes to 9 minutes depending on filet thickness and type of fish (seabass/blackies/chinese rock fish broil faster than halibut, true cod broils faster than black cod, etc). Note that if you pulled the fish when it was ever-so-slightly not-quite cooked yet, that this would be great too and results in a finished product with more moisture in it.
REMOVE the pan from the oven and spread the parmesan mixture over the fish, leaving no exposed flesh (leaving skin exposed is OK). Place the fish back in the oven and broil until the parmesan mixture is lightly toasted, about 2 or 3 minutes in most ovens. :cheers: :wave: :yay:
Enjoy!
Brian D