Fish is one thing that I have always loved. But I was mistakenly under the impression that it was difficult and complicated to cook. Fearing failure, I limited myself to ordering it in restaurants. Last year, my husband started working nights, and so with just myself to cook for most evenings, I felt ready to try new things. Besides, with a big German Shepherd in the house, even burnt offerings don’t go to waste. This recipe is one of my favourite new discoveries. Enjoy xxx
Serves 2
Ingredients:
- Two fillets of cod (approximately 200g each)
- 120g of Easy Cook brown rice (check the packet for cooking times, the one I use takes 25 minutes, so adjust accordingly)
- 1 butternut squash
- 1 red onion
- 2 bell peppers
- 2 tomatoes
- 2 tablespoons of pesto
- a drizzle of olive oil
Cost per serving: €5.50
Method:
- Preheat your oven to 180 degrees centigrade and boil a full kettle of water
- Peel the squash and chop it into cubes
- Cut the top off the peppers, pull out the seeds and chop them into large bite size pieces
- Peel the onion and cut in into quarters.
- Put all the chopped veg into a Pyrex dish and drizzle a little olive oil over them, shake them and pop them into the over
- Put the rice into a pot of boiling water, the rice should take about 25 minutes to cook
- Slice your tomatoes
- Put the fish into a Pyrex dish, skin side down, season with salt and pepper
- Lay the sliced tomatoes out on top of the fish and top it with about a tablespoon of pesto on each piece of fish
- When the rice has about 15 minutes left, pop the fish into the oven
- Serve and enjoy
Nutritional Information per serving:
Calories: 553
Protein: 39.5g
Fat: 15.2g
Carbohydrate: 64.6g
