Roast Hake with Ginger & Tomato Sauce
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Total: 25 mins
Soft brown basmati and a rich gingery tomato sauce are the perfect platform for flaky sustainably caught hake fillets, surrounded by tender leaves and crisp shallots and finished with a bright squeeze of lime.
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495 kcal
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Ingredients you'll need
  • 300g brown basmati rice
  • 800g tomatoes
  • A thumb of ginger
  • 4 garlic cloves
  • 2 chilli
  • 100g tamari
  • 2 pak choi
  • 8 shallots
  • 4 hake fillets
  • 2 lime
From your kitchen
  • 300ml boiling water
  • Sea salt
  • 1 tsp olive oil
  • 2 tbsp water
You'll need
  • Small pan with a lid
  • Measuring jug
  • Ovenproof dish
  • Frying pan
Step by step this way
  • 1.

    Heat your oven to 200°C/Fan 180°C/Gas 6. Fill your kettle and boil it. Rinse the rice under cold water, then tip into a small pan. Add 300ml boiling water and a pinch of salt. Cover, bring to the boil then turn the heat right down and very gently cook for 25 mins till all the water has been absorbed. Take off the heat and leave to steam in the pan, lid on, for 5 mins to finish cooking the rice. It will keep warm in the pan.

  • 2.

    While the rice cooks, finely chop the tomatoes and place in an ovenproof dish. Peel and grate the ginger and garlic. Halve the chilli and flick out most of the seeds. Finely chop it. Add to the dish. Pour in the tamari and mix everything together. Bake for 20 mins at the top of the oven.

  • 3.

    While the tomatoes bake, finely shred the pak choi. Peel and thinly slice the shallots.

  • 4.

    When the ginger and tomato sauce has baked for 20 mins, take out of the oven and place the hake in the dish. Pop back on the top shelf and bake for 10 mins till the hake is white and flakes easily when pressed with a fork.

  • 5.

    While the hake cooks, heat a frying pan. When hot, add in 1 tsp oil. Add the shallots and fry for 5 mins till golden and crispy. Set aside on a piece of kitchen paper to drain.

  • 6.

    Add the shredded pak choi to the pan with 2 tbsp water. Stir fry for 3-4 mins till the pak choi has just softened. Take off the heat.

  • 7.

    Fluff the rice up with a fork. Arrange on 2 warm plates. Top with the pak choi, hake, ginger and tomato sauce and the crisp shallots. Serve with lime wedges for squeezing.

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