- 500g new potatoes
- 200g French beans
- 1 garlic clove
- 1 lemon
- A handful of dill
- 2 hake fillets
- 45g butter
- Sea salt
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- Freshly ground pepper
- Large pan with lid
- Frying pan
- 1.
Scrub the new potatoes, halve or quarter them so they're all roughly the same size, and add them to a large pan. Cover the potatoes with cold water and add a generous pinch of salt. Cover with a lid and bring to the boil, then simmer for 15-18 mins, till tender (see step 3 for when to check them so you can cook the broccoli).
- 2.
Trim the woody ends off the French beans. Peel and grate or crush the garlic. Zest the lemon and squeeze half the juice into a bowl. Finely chop the dill stalks and roughly chop the leaves, adding the stalks to the bowl of lemon zest and juice, and setting the leaves to one side.
- 3.
When the potatoes have cooked for 10 mins, pour 1 tbsp olive oil into a frying pan and warm to a medium high heat. When the pan is hot, carefully add the hake fillets and fry for 3 mins on each side, till the flesh is opaque and flakes easily when pressed with a fork. Lift the fish out onto a plate and take the pan off the heat.
- 4.
When the potatoes are nearly cooked (check after 12-15 mins), add the French beans to the pan. Cook for 2-3 mins, till the beans are tender. Drain the beans and potatoes and allow to steam dry in the colander for 1 min.
- 5.
Place the pan back onto a low heat and add the butter and garlic and fry for 2 mins till the butter has melted. Add the lemon zest, juice and dill stalks with a good pinch of salt and pepper. Warm together for 1 min. Add the hake fillets back to the pan with the butter and turn to coat them.
- 6.
Divide the potatoes and beans between a couple of plates. Top with the hake and pour over the butter sauce. Top with the dill leaves and crack over some black pepper to serve.