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Perch fillets with sun-dried tomato crust and tomato jam

Serves: 2

2017-01-05

Ingredients

For the fish

  • 2 x 200g thick perch fillets
  • 4 tbsp fresh breadcrumbs
  • 1 heaped tbsp sun-dried tomato pate (Ogygia)
  • Few basil and parsley leaves
  • Good glug olive oil (Borges)

You will also need

  • 1 packet lemon couscous (Ainsley)
  • 1 tbsp toasted pine nuts
  • 1 shallot, chopped
  • 1 tbsp olive oil (Borges)
  • Handful cherry tomatoes, halved
  • 1 tsp balsamic vinegar
  • 50g sugar
  • 150ml vegetable stock
  • Salt and pepper
  • Salad leaves to garnish

Method

Start this recipe with the tomato jam. Sauté the chopped shallot with a tbsp of olive oil and add in the cherry tomatoes. Cook for a minute, then add in the sugar, balsamic vinegar, sugar, stock and season well with salt and pepper. Reduce the heat and allow to cook down for 15 minutes. Meanwhile prepare the fish. Place the breadcrumbs in a food processor with the basil and parsley leaves and blitz together with a good glug of oil and the sun-dried tomato pate`. Place the fish onto a tray and season well with pepper. Press on the crumb mix and roll up tightly. Drizzle over a little more oil and bake in the oven for 10-15 minutes. You can now make up the tomato couscous with hot water and stir in the toasted pine nuts. To serve, place the couscous into 2 rings on 2 serving plates. Carefully place on the olive crusted perch and dress with a few salad leaves on top. Spoon the tomato jam around the edge of the plate and serve.
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Fletti tal-‘perch’ b’qoxra taż-żebbuġa iswed u ġamm tat-tadam

Ingredients

Għall-ħut

  • 2 x 200g fletti tal-‘perch’ ħoxnin
  • 4 mgħaref frak tal-ħobż frisk
  • mgħarfa ‘paste’ taż-żebbuġ
  • ftit weraq tal-ħabaq u tat-tursin
  • ftit żejt taż-żebbuġa

Se jkollok bżonn ukoll

  • pakkett kuskus tat-tadam imqadded
  • mgħarfa ‘pine nuts’ inkaljati
  • basla mqatta’
  • mgħarfa żejt taż-żebbuġa
  • ftit cherry tomatoes maqsumin min-nofs
  • kuċċarina ħall balsamiku
  • 50g zokkor
  • 150ml stokk tal-ħaxix
  • melħ u bżar
  • weraq tal-insalata biex iżżejjen

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