Portuguese Style Baked Fish – Peixe Assado | Keto | Low Carb | LCHF

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This recipe is one that I used to make repeatedly since I was a teenager, but that I had forgotten all about for many years. It uses few ingredients and is one of the simplest and easiest recipes I’ve made, but has great flavour!

Opening the oven to the smell of this Portuguese Style Baked Fish or Peixe Assado was like smelling my childhood again, beautiful flavours and aroma you’d often smell in a Portuguese home, with ingredients that were ALWAYS on hand. Garlic, parsley and olive oil are used to dress many Portuguese dishes, especially fish. My grandmother would always have a basketful of garlic on the kitchen counter, good quality extra virgin olive oil in the cupboard and fresh parsley growing in the garden. I didn’t even have to tweak the recipe at all to make it keto friendly, it already hit that mark completely!

A LOT of people think that since Portuguese style chicken is so famous, that the Portuguese diet includes lots of this. But in reality the main food eaten in Portugal is definitely seafood, especially fish. Cod in particular is the most popular choice and there are endless dishes that use it. With so many people living right near the coast in Portugal, it’s no surprise that seafood is eaten so much. One tray seafood dishes made in the oven, are also extremely popular and are often made in traditional terracotta pots or trays and then brought to the table and served in the same dish.

While I haven’t used a terracotta tray for this Portuguese Style Baked Fish, it still is incredibly authentic on presentation and flavour! I always used to have this Portuguese Style Baked Fish with boiled potatoes to roll in the ‘molho’, which is like a sauce. But it also would go fantastically over some cauliflower mash or for something lighter, a really simple side salad would be great. Snapper fillets are a perfect choice for a dish like this, but can be expensive, so I opted for hoki instead for a cheaper option. Any fleshy white fish will do well though!

Want to see more Portuguese style keto recipes like this? Check out our other Portuguese faves!

1. Pastéis de Bacalhau – Portuguese Cod Cakes
2. Pastéis de nata – Portuguese Custard Tarts
3. Bife à Portuguesa – Portuguese Steak

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Portuguese Baked Fish

A quick and easy one tray bake using traditional Portuguese flavours.

Course Dinner, Lunch, Main Course

Cuisine Australian, Dairy Free, Diabetic Friendly, Gluten Free, Grain Free, Keto, LCHF, Low Carb, Nut Free, Paleo, Portuguese, Sugar Free

Keyword easy fish recipes, keto portuguese recipes, lchf portuguese recipes, low carb nikki, low carb portuguese recipes, portuguese style baked fish, quick and easy recipes, seafood recipes

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes minutes

Total Time 30 minutes minutes

Servings 5

Calories 376.6kcal

Ingredients

• 1 kg white flesh fish fillets (we used hoki)
• 1 red onion, sliced into rings
• 3 cloves garlic, sliced
• 1 tbsp paprika
• ½ cup extra virgin olive oil
• ½ cup dry white wine
• salt
• pepper
• 1 tbsp chopped parsley to garnish

Instructions

• Place fish fillets in a single layer in a baking dish. Layer over garlic clove slices, followed by red onion slices.
• Season with salt and pepper and sprinkle the paprika evenly over the top.
• Pour over half the olive oil and half the white wine.
• Bake in the oven at 180°C for 10 minutes. Remove and pour over remaining olive oil and wine. Return to the oven and bake another 10 minutes.
• Serve with freshly chopped parsley sprinkled over.
  

Notes

Net Carbs - 3.6g

Nutrition

Calories: 376.6kcal | Carbohydrates: 4.3g | Protein: 34.5g | Fat: 22.8g | Fiber: 0.8g | Sugar: 2g