Hake with Dill Butter
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Total: 20 mins
Flaky sustainable hake fillets, pan-fried in a garlicky lemon and dill butter sauce and served with chunky seasonal new potatoes and slinky green summer French beans.
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553 kcal
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Ingredients you'll need
  • 500g new potatoes
  • 200g French beans
  • 1 garlic clove
  • 1 lemon
  • A handful of dill
  • 2 hake fillets
  • 45g butter
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  • Sea salt
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • Freshly ground pepper
You'll need
  • Large pan with lid
  • Frying pan
Step by step this way
  • 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.

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