Thursday 26 March 2015

Hake with chorizo and bean stew

This is another simple midweek dish, but it looks posh and can easily do a dinner party too...



Hake's fairly inexpensive in the UK and delicious, any white fish can easily be substituted.

Ingredients (to feed 2)

2 hake (or other white fish) boneless fillets
10 cm piece of chorizo sausage
1 medium onion
100ml dry white wine
10 cherry tomatoes
175g cannelini (or other white) beans, tinned is fine
Handful of purple sprouting broccoli or other green veg of your choice
Olive oil, salt and pepper
1/2 lemon
Small handful of parsley

Method

1) Slice onion thinly and sweat slowly in 1 tbsp good olive oil until soft and sweet, then add the chorizo, diced and allow to soften and give it's oil to the mixture.

2) Add the white wine to the pan and allow the alcohol to evaporate before adding the drained beans and cherry tomatoes.

3) Allow to reduce by half and the tomatoes to soften, add the parsley (finely chopped), taste and season with salt and pepper.

4) Steam or pan fry the green veg and season with lemon juice, olive oil, salt and pepper.

5) Check the fish fillets for bones. Oil and add nearly fully opaque on the skin side until nearly fully opaque, before turning over and finishing on the flesh side.

6) Season the fish, plate on top of the stew with the green veg and serve with a lemon wedge.