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Crispy Baked Cod with Herby Broccoli, Peas and Beans
Introduction from Rukmini Iyer
This is such an easy weeknight dish, with mostly storecupboard ingredients: pesto, breadcrumbs, frozen peas. Adding a tin of butter beans (by all means use cannellini, haricot or Puy lentils if that’s what you have) picks up all the flavour from the roasting tin. Serve with good crusty bread for an additional carb.
Ingredients
Method
Preheat the oven to 180°C fan/200°C/gas 6. Pop the Tenderstem into a bowl, tip a kettleful of boiling water over it and leave to sit for 2 minutes, then drain well. (If the stems are very thick, halve them lengthways.) If using ordinary broccoli, skip this step.
Mix the broccoli, frozen peas and courgettes in a large roasting tin along with 1½ tablespoons of the olive oil, the sea salt (if using) and a good grind of black pepper. I like to add the butter beans at the end, to just warm through in the residual heat of the roasting tin, but if you’d prefer them piping hot, stick them in now.
Lay the cod fillets over the vegetables, spread each with 1 teaspoon of pesto, scatter over the breadcrumbs, then drizzle with the remaining ½ tablespoon of olive oil. Grind over some black pepper, then transfer to the oven and roast for 20–25 minutes (20 if your cod fillets are quite thin, 25 if they are a little thicker).
Once cooked, stir in the butter beans (if you haven’t already), lemon zest, juice and fresh basil and serve hot.
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