Coconut Breaded Cod - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 1/4 lbs thick cod fish fillets, boned,cut into 4 pieces
    3 tablespoons lime juice
    1 cup fine dry breadcrumb
    1/4 teaspoon salt
    1/4 teaspoon ground mace
    1/2 teaspoon cayenne, to taste
    2 eggs
    3 tablespoons water
    2 cups finely grated unsweetened coconut
    2 tablespoons butter
Preparation
    Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
    Rinse off cod fillets well under cool water.
    Sprinkle well with lime juice and set aside.
    Mix together bread crumbs, salt, mace, and cayenne.
    Pour into a shallow dish suitable for dredging.
    Beat together eggs and water.
    Put coconut in a shallow dish suitable for dredging.
    Melt butter and pour into bottom of a baking dish.
    (Or spray baking dish with cooking spray.) Dredge each piece of limejuice-covered fish in the crumb mixture.
    Then dip in egg.
    Dredge in coconut.
    (You may repeat the egg/coconut step if you like a thicker coating.) Lay thoroughly-coated pieces of fish in baking pan.
    Bake for about 25-30 minutes or until fish flakes easily.
    Serve with good tartar sauce.
    Also good served along with baked bacon-wrapped shrimp.

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