Baked Cod Recipe
This oven baked cod recipe is tender & flaky, with the best lemon butter sauce! Learn how to bake cod with just 5 ingredients, in 20 minutes.
Healthy Fish Recipes
These easy healthy fish recipes have simple ingredients and easy prep, and include all kinds of fish, like salmon, cod, halibut, tuna, and more. They are great sources of healthy omega 3 fats and protein, and naturally gluten-free. More importantly, they are packed with flavor and quick to make. Each recipe includes tips for cooking the fish to the perfect flaky texture.
Making a fish dish into a complete meal is super easy — just add a veggie side dish or healthy salad, and maybe some mashed cauliflower for the low carb eaters and potatoes for anyone else. (The salad I make most often with fish is tomato cucumber avocado salad: Just throw together some cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, avocado, and maybe some red onion, and add a quick vinaigrette.)
If you’re a fan of seafood in general or really want to wow your guests, all of those sides also pair well with other types of healthy seafood recipes beyond just fish, such as shrimp or lobster.
The Best Healthy Baked Fish Recipes
Because they cooks so quickly and require minimal hands-on time, baked fish fillets are the perfect healthy dinner for a busy weeknight. The most basic ingredients that work for almost any kind of flaky or white fish are olive oil or butter, lemon juice, fresh herbs and spices (garlic powder is the most common), sea salt, and black pepper (or crushed red pepper). Healthy baked fish recipes pair particularly well with roasted asparagus or green beans almondine, or you can add some taco seasoning and turn them into fish tacos!
Baked Salmon Recipe
This easy oven baked salmon recipe is flaky, moist, and flavorful! Make it in just 15 minutes with olive oil, lemon, garlic, and fresh herbs.
Rainbow Trout Recipe
Learn how to cook trout, the simple and easy way! My baked rainbow trout recipe uses common ingredients and takes just 15 minutes.
Baked Tilapia
Make this flaky oven baked tilapia recipe in only 20 minutes, with 5 simple ingredients: tilapia, butter, lemon, parsley and garlic. So easy!
Healthy Fish Spotlight
Pan Seared Halibut
This is the single most popular healthy fish recipe on Wholesome Yum! It comes with an easy, but luxurious lemon butter sauce and takes just 20 minutes from start to finish… which you’d never guess with how fancy it looks.
In fact, this sauce is so popular that you can also get the standalone recipe to make lemon butter sauce for fish here. It will work for almost any healthy fish recipe, not only halibut.
Healthy Salmon Recipes
Salmon is probably the most popular healthy fish, which is why I have so many healthy salmon recipes. In case you get bored with the taste of plain baked or pan seared fish, here are more ideas for what to do with your salmon fillets:
Featured Healthy Fish Recipe Video
Easy Pan Seared Salmon
Learn how to pan sear salmon perfectly every time! This 15-minute pan seared salmon recipe (pan fried salmon) is flaky and buttery inside, with a crust on the outside, crispy skin, and herb lemon butter sauce.
Unique Fish Recipes
Want to change it up and try something different? Try these easy and healthy fish recipes that are a little extraordinary — either in preparation or because they use an interesting species of fish:
Baked Haddock
This baked haddock recipe is fancy AND easy! Learn how to cook haddock fish with an irresistible crunchy almond topping and fresh herbs.
Chilean Sea Bass
Just a few simple ingredients and really quick to prepare. You won’t even miss the rice.
Flounder Recipe
This baked flounder recipe makes flaky, buttery fish in 20 minutes! You only need a few simple ingredients: olive oil, butter, lemon & spices.
Fish Ceviche
You’ll love my ceviche recipe with simple, fresh ingredients: fish, avocado, veggies, herbs, and lime. An easy, flavorful Mexican appetizer!