Homemade baked fish and chips! A delicious cheesy comfort food served with creamy lemon herb dip. Inspired by the cheesy baked fish recipe from Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. This 90-minute baked fish and chips recipe will have you coming back for more!
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I cannot even begin to contain my excitement over the fact that cheese is now an ingredient in Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. I get to make pizza in the future, along with so many more cheesy dishes! I’m a huge cheese fan, if you didn’t notice.
In Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, cheesy baked fish can be cooked in any cooking pot or portable Zonai pot by combining Hateno cheese with any seafood. A pretty easy recipe to remember!
It can give quite a few hearts too! Try cooking it with a hearty salmon for a full recovery meal that you’ll just love when you’re fighting the Queen Gibdo or the Phantom Ganons of Hyrule castle.
Cheesy Baked Fish in Zelda Tears of the Kingdom: Any Fish or Seafood + Hateno Cheese
The journey to get cheese as a regular in-game ingredient is also quite a fun and cute one. First, you need to travel to the Hateno pasture and complete the “A Letter to Koyin” side quest to unlock this wonderful food. The quest involves finding a message in a bottle lost in Lake Sumac, just beyond the pasture. It’s a pretty easy quest, but very rewarding when you get your cheese!
I do also think it’s worth completing another quest in Hateno Village at the same time, so that you can unlock the ability to buy Hateno cheese at other places around Hyrule.
To do this, you need to initiate the quest “Team Cece or Team Reede?” This quest involves a rivalry between Cece, the local fashionista who is decorating Hateno and its inhabitants with mushrooms, and Reede, the long-time mayor of Hateno who is looking to reignite the spark of agricultural farming that Hateno has long been known for.
After activating this quest and completing the “Letter to Koyin” quest, go speak with Reede again. He’ll likely be in his house if you can’t find him. Talk to Reede. He will smell the “unique, pungent aroma” of Hateno cheese on you, and become very excited, thinking this cheese discovery will help him win the upcoming election.
But, lucky for Link, after this conversation you can also buy cheese at the Hateno general store, Lookout Landing, and a few travelling vendors will also have a few wheels in stock. Yay for Hateno cheese!
Cheesy Baked Fish and Chips
This delicious fish and chips recipe makes 4 servings, and is ready from start to finish in about 70-90 minutes.
Serve it with this homemade creamy lemon herb dip for an extra scrumptious experience!
Ingredients
- 4 small cod fillets (about 500-600 grams) – salmon, halibut, or mahi-mahi would also work!
- 4 medium-sized potatoes
- 2 eggs
- 5-6 tbsp oil
- ¼ cup flour or potato starch
- ½ cup grated parmesan
- 1 cup panko bread crumbs (regular bread crumbs will also work; see gluten-free suggestions below)
- 2 tsp paprika
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- ½ tsp onion powder
- 1 ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp ground pepper
Serve With:
- 1 cup creamy lemon herb dip
- lemon slices, to garnish
Click here for my creamy lemon herb dipping sauce recipe!
*Gluten-free substitutions for breadcrumbs could include:
- rice flour bread crumbs
- crushed potato chips
- crushed rice cakes
- cornmeal or crushed corn flakes
- ground almonds, pecans, walnuts, or sunflower seeds
Tools
- knife
- cutting board
- garlic mincer
- small mixing bowl
- measuring cup
- measuring spoons
- 3 shallow bowls or plates, for coating the fish
- large bowl, for soaking the fries in water
- paper towel or tea towel
- 1-2 baking sheets, for the fries
- baking dish, for the fish
- oven mitts
Instructions
1. Arrange your oven racks so one is in the lower third and one is in the top third.The fries will be cooked on the lower rack and the fish on the top rack.
2. Preheat the oven to 400˚F.
3. Wash the potatoes and cut them into thin sticks or wedges.
4. Add the cut fries in a large bowl of very cold water and let soak for 20 minutes. You can even add a few ice cubes, for good measure.
5. While the fries are soaking, prepare the coating for the fish.
- Lay out 3 bowls or plates in a row, with the baking dish for the fish at the end.
- Add the flour to the first plate.
- Add the beaten eggs to the second plate.
- On the third plate, mix together the parmesan, panko bread crumbs, paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, ground pepper, and ¼ tsp of salt.
6. Coat the inside of the baking dish for the fish with ½ tsp of oil.
7. Rinse the soaked fries in cool water and then pat them dry with a paper towel or tea towel – as bone dry as you can!
8. Place the fries on baking sheets and drizzle with 3-4 tbsp of oil.
9. Put the fries in the oven and set a timer for 15 minutes.
10. While the fries are baking, prepare the fish. Pat the fish dry with a paper towel, then coat the fish slices, one by one, in the following order.
- Rub each fillet with flour.
- Coat each fillet with beaten egg next.
- Press each fillet repeatedly into the bread crumb mixture until well coated.
- Place the breaded fillets in the oiled baking dish.
11. Once all the fillets are placed in the oiled baking dish, drizzle the remaining oil over the fillets, as evenly as you can.
12. Once the oven timer for 15 mins for the fries goes off, flip the fries over on the baking sheet. This will assure the fries cook evenly. Place the fries back in the oven, on the lower rack.
13. Reduce the oven temperature to 375˚F.
14. Add the baking dish of fish into the oven on the upper rack, and bake the fries and fish simultaneously at 375˚F for 25-30 minutes, or until crispy and cooked through.
Note: You’ll know the fish is fully cooked when it flakes easily with a fork and is opaque white in colour (no longer semi-translucent).
15. When the fries and fish are fully baked, remove them from the oven. Serve right awaywith a side of creamy lemon herb dip. Enjoy!
Fish and Chips – A Delicious Comfort Food
This cheesy baked fish was absolutely delicious, and it works well with so many different types of fish.
I’ve tried this recipe with cod, halibut, and salmon so far, but I think many other types of fish would work equally as well, mahi-mahi just to name one.
I do recommend trying to get fish that has fewer bones in it, but I know that can sometimes be hard to achieve.
One last tip, for extra amazing fries: Remove the fries from the oven 5-10 minutes before they’re done, grate more parmesan cheese all over them, then put them back in the oven to finish baking.
This just takes them to a whole other level, it’s so good!
So, did you make this cheesy baked fish and chips? Let me know!
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