in my studio kitchen for quick and the list by susan so today i'm going to do herb crusted fish ways now i like to use cawed but you can use cod or haddock it's a nice white fish not too thick not too thin and this is the frozen cod i prefer the frozen because you can keep it in your refrigerator your freezer and when you're ready you take it out twenty four hours before you're going to cook leave it in your refrigerator and it's  ed and before i came in the studio i cleaned this and then i patted it dry a little bit now what we're going to do to make the crust is one fourth a cup of the talian bread crumbs now those have the spices already in them so you don't have to you know add anything extra then we're going to do a fourth of a cop parmesan cheese all really shredded and just a little bit of salt there you know and just kind of mix this up get that all mixed up we go like a little now here and then we're going to code it with the bread crumb mixture with the cheese and oh my gosh it smells so good then we're going to place the full lays into a glass bowl now this happens to be a pirate's ball but i'm all about using glass in the microwave so i don't ever use plastic so these are going to go into a glass bowl and if you have to fix fish maybe one side is thicker you want that to be an outside of the bowl so that will cook quicker let's do the second one here in the egg white two all right get it in that bread crumb mixture that's good it's going to be a mess there we go put this wood to the bowl now i've got extra crumbs some of just sprinkle that on top there we go get rid of those crumbs that's going to be your go before lamb and this is just going to give you a bit of a zest to that to the fish now i'm going to add a little paprika i'm going to do a mild paprika and this is for flavor but it's also it also looks nice isn't there a little bit of paprika there you go so this is what you're going to put into the microwave and you're going to do maybe a four to five minutes in the microwave now this also depends on your microwave so that it's going to do several things that's going to steam your fish and it's also going to keep your microwave nice and clean and it's vented so some of that extra condensation is going to be able to come up through steam so we're going to put it in the microwave  here we go we're going to do five minutes on high now if you take it out and it's not quite cooked yet it's you know not white flaky when i just put it back into the microwave for maybe thirty seconds or minute so we're going to do five minutes and in the microwave for about five minutes four to five minutes and look what you have absolutely beautiful fish steamed in the microwave now we're going to put ice aside and put this forward here because we're going to do asparagus steamed asparagus because it's a great side dish for the fish so this is what i like i like a thinner asparagus i mean you can go with a thicker but the taste of the thinner to me is better and it cooks so nice in the microwave when you steam it that this is how you're going to buy it in the store in for this show i'm just going to do about half of  this typically you would wash this dry it but since we're doing a cooking show we're just going to cut this you're going to cut this bottom part right here because that's the hard woody part  e definitely don't want to eat that so you're going to do maybe an inch to an intra half that you're going to take off of there and then if you have any little dried spots on the top you just want to get rid of those too but these actually look pretty good so we're going to put this on a dinner plate and add a little bit of water maybe a tablespoon there you go just like that with a little bit of salt to just a little touch of salt now we're going to cover this with my microwave plate cover it's made out of glass and it's got the vents here so once again you're steaming your food but you're going to allow that extra condensation to come out we're going to microwave the asparagus for probably to finisterra this is going to go from three to five minutes but if you've got a thicker asparagus you're probably going to go to three to seven minutes once again it just depends on how you like your asparagus that in the microwave ok so i'm back and the asparagus has steamed in the microwave for about three minutes now this is going to be really hot but take a look at this to help you to full that is that asparagus is just done perfectly in the microwave in about three minutes now this is what your finished product is going to be this is a wonderful meal look at this you've got fish low fat low calorie you have steamed asparagus with a little bit of butter in some lemon just take a look at that it's just absolutely beautiful just gorgeous so thanks again for joining me for another quick and delish recipe and you can go on my website cucina save dot com to look at this recipe and all of my other recipes