Lazy Days Restaurant is a place where you can kick up your feet and enjoy award-winning Keys-style dishes in a spectacular oceanfront setting. This lovely dish is one of the most popular on the menu. Serve it with garlic mashed potatoes and a nice Pinot Grigio for a dinner that’s made to impress!
Ingredients
(Yield 4 Servings)
2 Lbs Fish Fillets, like Yellowtail Snapper or other white fish
1 Tbl Key Lime Juice
2 Cups Panko Breadcrumbs
2 Tbs Fresh Parsley, chopped
1 Cup Scallion, chopped
1 Cup Tomato, chopped
2 Large Eggs
1/2 Tsp Garlic powder
3 Tsp Cornstarch
1 Cup Flour
1/8 Tsp White Pepper, fresh ground
1/4 Lb Butter
1/2 Cup Parmesan Cheese, grated
1/4 Cup Dry White Wine
1 – 3/16 Cup Water
Preparation:
Place the water, wine and key lime juice in a large saucepan over a high heat and reduce by half, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic powder. Add pepper to taste. Cut the butter into pats about the size of 1 tablespoon. Reduce the heat to low. Add one pat butter and whisk until the butter is incorporated. Add another pat and continue until all of the butter is used. Mix the water and cornstarch together and add to the sauce. Raise the heat to medium and stir until the sauce thickens and a few bubbles appear. Set aside while the fish cooks.
Mix the eggs and water together in a small bowl (whisk vigorously, until combined). Place the flour on a plate and dip the fish fillets into flour, coating both sides. Dip the fish into the egg wash. Place the bread crumbs on a second plate and coat the fish with bread crumbs, making sure both sides are coated. Heat 4 tablespoons of the Key lime butter sauce over medium-high heat in a skillet large enough to hold the fish in one layer. Add the fish and sauté for 4 minutes until golden. Use a little olive oil for sautéing, if necessary. Turn the fish and sauté for 4 minutes for 1 inch-thick fillets. Sauté 2 minutes longer for thicker fish or 2 minutes less for thinner fish. The fish is cooked when the flesh is opaque, not translucent.
Place the fish on 4 dinner plates. Spoon the sauce over each piece and sprinkle with the tomatoes, scallions, parmesan cheese and parsley.
You can find Lazy Days right on the beach at 79867 Overseas Hwy (MM 79. Oceanside) in Islamorada. 305-664-5256; lazydaysislamorada.com.
