Hake with blood orange and green olive salsa verde

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The green olive salsa verde should be made rough and ready, with the green olives being roughly chopped rather than finely chopped into a paste. We used big juicy, garlic stuffed olives from the Real Olive Company.

Hake with blood orange and green olive salsa verde

SERVES

2

PEOPLE

PREP TIME

10

MINUTES

COOKING TIME

15

MINUTES

CUISINE

COURSE

Main

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 200°C.

  2. Season the fish well with sea salt, freshly cracked black pepper and a pinch or two of chilli flakes if you so wish. Place the seasoned fish on a large piece of baking parchment on top of the slices of blood orange. Drizzle all over with olive oil and sprinkle over the zest of one of the blood oranges. Places the slices of garlic on top along with the butter, divided. Gather up the parchment and pour in the white wine before tightly wrapping the parchment to seal.

  3. Place in the oven for 15 minutes. While in the oven prepare the salsa verde. Mix together all the chopped ingredients with the crushed garlic, blood orange zest, red wine vinegar, olive oil and a good pinch of sea salt. Divide liberally between two serving plates. When the fish is ready, place on top of the salsa verde and serve.

Ingredients

  • 2 nice size fillets of hake

  • Olive oil

  • 4 cloves of garlic, thinly sliced

  • 2 blood oranges, zested and cut into slices

  • Sea salt

  • Black pepper

  • Chilli flakes

  • 60ml of white wine 

  • 50g butter

  • For the salsa:

  • Handful of flat-leaf parsley, roughly chopped

  • Handful of coriander, roughly chopped

  • 8 spring onions, thinly sliced

  • Zest of one blood orange

  • 100g good quality marinated green olives, pitted, very roughly chopped

  • ½ small red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped

  • 2 teaspoons of red wine vinegar

  • 60ml extra olive oil

  • 2 cloves of garlic, crushed

  • Sea salt

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 200°C.

  2. Season the fish well with sea salt, freshly cracked black pepper and a pinch or two of chilli flakes if you so wish. Place the seasoned fish on a large piece of baking parchment on top of the slices of blood orange. Drizzle all over with olive oil and sprinkle over the zest of one of the blood oranges. Places the slices of garlic on top along with the butter, divided. Gather up the parchment and pour in the white wine before tightly wrapping the parchment to seal.

  3. Place in the oven for 15 minutes. While in the oven prepare the salsa verde. Mix together all the chopped ingredients with the crushed garlic, blood orange zest, red wine vinegar, olive oil and a good pinch of sea salt. Divide liberally between two serving plates. When the fish is ready, place on top of the salsa verde and serve.