COD IN A RICH TOMATO SAUCE WITH COURGETTI
Ingredients
- 1 tsp vegetable oil
- 1 very small onion (50g/1¾oz)
- thinly sliced
- 1 garlic clove
- finely chopped
- ½ red pepper (75g/2½oz)
- roughly chopped
- pinch smoked paprika
- 300g/10½oz tinned chopped tomatoes
- 1 level tbsp tomato purée
- 175g/6oz cod fillet
- boneless
- skin on
- 150g/5½oz courgetti
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 200C/180C Fan/Gas 6.
- Heat the oil in small frying pan over a medium heat. Add the onion and fry for 4–5 minutes
- or until soft. Add the garlic
- pepper and paprika and cook for 2 minutes.
- Stir in the tomatoes
- tomato purée and salt and pepper
- to taste. Cook over a medium heat for 10 minutes
- or until the mixture begins to thicken.
- Transfer the sauce into an ovenproof dish
- lay the fish on top of the sauce and bake for 10–15 minutes
- or until the fish is cooked.
- Meanwhile
- place the ‘courgetti’ in a microwave and cook on high for 2 minutes. Stand for 1 minute before serving with the fish.

