Green Seasoning Baked Cod

“If you took the contents of nearly any bottle of green seasoning and broke it down to its component ingredients, you’d have the makings of this recipe,” writes recipe developer and cookbook author Brigid Washington. “Green seasoning is a bright, piquant, and herbaceous staple particularly beloved in Trinidad & Tobago, where it’s often used to inject complex and robust flavors into meat, poultry, and fish prior to cooking. The aromatic blend consists of cilantro (or culantro, which grows wild on the island), garlic, onions, scallions, a source of acid, and a source of heat. For this recipe, the core components of green seasoning aren’t puréed as they traditionally are but rather chopped by hand. Mild and mellow white fish—in this case, cod—is baked under this blanket of fresh herbs, and the end result is a simple yet comforting dish that also has bright bursts of tropical flavors and oomph. This is exactly the type of recipe I want during a very languid January.”