BAKED HAKE WITH GREEN SAUCE AND FENNEL SALAD
Ingredients
- 165g/6oz unsalted butter
- 265g/9oz panko or sourdough breadcrumbs
- 2 tsp sea salt
- glug of olive oil
- 4 x 150g/5½oz–200g/7oz hake fillet
- skin-on
- pin-boned
- 1 bunch flatleaf parsley
- ½ bunch fresh tarragon
- 4–6 anchovy fillets
- 1 tbsp small capers
- 2 cloves garlic
- roughly chopped
- 1 tsp Dijon mustard
- 1 unwaxed lemon
- finely grated zest only
- 2 tbsp red wine vinegar
- 4–6 tbsp olive oil
- 1 garlic clove
- crushed
- 1 orange
- finely grated zest and juice
- 2 tbsp white wine vinegar
- 1 tsp Dijon mustard
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 2 fennel bulbs
- thinly sliced on a mandolin
- 2 green apples
- cored
- sliced and cut into matchsticks
- 1 tbsp finely chopped fresh dill
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 200C/180C Fan/Gas 6. Melt the butter in an ovenproof frying pan over a medium–high heat until it starts to turn brown. Add the breadcrumbs and salt and cook until golden brown. Tip the mixture onto a plate and leave to cool. Wipe out the pan.
- Heat the oil in the frying pan over a medium–high heat. Add the hake and cook for 2–3 minutes. Turn the fish over and top with the breadcrumb mixture. Transfer to the oven and bake for 4 minutes
- or until cooked through.
- Meanwhile
- for the green sauce
- blend together the parsley
- tarragon
- anchovies
- capers and garlic in a food processor. Add the mustard
- lemon zest and vinegar
- then with the engine running pour in the oil until you have a smooth sauce.
- For the salad
- make a vinaigrette by mixing together the garlic
- orange zest and juice
- vinegar
- mustard and oil in a small bowl. Put the fennel
- apple and dill in large bowl and toss with the vinaigrette.
- Serve the fish with the green sauce and the salad alongside.

