Meals for under £10: Baked fish with green & white beans

THIS is a lovely comforting supper dish and very easy to put together.

It works best with a nice, thick piece of white fish.

You’ll Need

4 x 150g white fish fillets (cod or haddock)
200g green beans, trimmed and halved
1 tbsp olive oil
1 small red onion, finely sliced into crescents
2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
grated zest of 1 lemon
100g cherry tomatoes, halved
2 x 400g cans of cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
bunch of basil, leaves torn
flaked sea salt
freshly ground black pepper

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C/ Fan 180°C/Gas 6. Line a baking tray with baking parchment, put the fish on it, season with salt and pepper.

Boil a kettle and pour boiling water into a saucepan and bring back to the boil. Add the green beans and cook for 3–4 minutes until just done. Drain the beans and set aside.

While the beans are cooking, start the sauce. Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan. Add the onion and cook gently over a medium heat for a few minutes – you want it to colour a little but still have some bite. Add the garlic and lemon zest, cook for another minute.

Put the fish in the oven and bake for 12–15 minutes. Meanwhile, add the tomatoes, onion and garlic to the saucepan, along with the cannellini beans and the green beans. Season with salt and pepper.

Cook gently for a few minutes until the tomatoes have warmed and start to release some juices.

Serve the fish with the beans, sprinkled with torn basil leaves.

Recipe from The Hairy Dieters Fast Food by Si King and Dave Myers (Orion, £14.99)

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