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Crispy Baked Cod with Herby Broccoli, Peas and Beans

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Crispy Baked Cod with Herby Broccoli, Peas and Beans

Tender cod fillets are crusted in pesto and breadcrumbs and baked atop herby green veg and butter beans for an easy midweek evening meal.
Serves 2 adults + 2 children
Total 35 min
Prep 10 min
Cook 25 min
Easy

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

300g Tenderstem broccoli
300g frozen peas
2 courgettes, cut into ½cm half moons
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp sea salt (optional)
freshly ground black pepper
4 cod fillets
4 tsp green pesto
4 heaped tbsp panko or white breadcrumbs
1 x 400g tin of butter beans, drained and rinsed
½ lemon, zest and juice
A large bunch of fresh basil leaves, finely chopped

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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From the book: The Quick Roasting Tin

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