The girls guide to good food! Mains!
Trout with creamy potato salad!
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Recipe from Good Food magazine, March 2009
Superhealthy pizza
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Recipe from Good Food magazine, April 2009
Pan-fried sea bass with citrus-dressed broccoli
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Recipe from Good Food magazine, February 2009
Healthy fish & chips with tartare sauce
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Recipe from Good Food magazine, February 2005
Ingredients:
- 250g waxy potatoes, such as Charlotte, peeled if you like and halved
- 4 tsp natural yogurt
- 4 tsp mayonnaise
- 1 lemon, ½ zested
- 1 tbsp small capers, rinsed
- 4 small gherkins or cornichons, sliced
- 2 spring onions, finely sliced
- ¼ cucumber, diced
- 2 trout fillets
Method
- Boil the potatoes in salted water for 15 mins until just tender. Drain and rinse under cold water to cool, then drain again. Heat the grill.
- Meanwhile, mix together the yogurt and mayonnaise, then season with a good squeeze of lemon. Gently stir into the potatoes with the capers, gherkins, most of the spring onion and cucumber.
- Season the trout, then grill on a baking sheet, skin-side down, for 3-4 mins depending on thickness, until just cooked. Scatter with lemon zest and serve with the potato salad, scattered with remaining spring onions. Cut the remaining lemon half into wedges for squeezing over.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, March 2009
Superhealthy pizza
Ingredients
- 100g each strong white and strong wholewheat flour
- 1 tsp or 7g sachet easy-blend dried yeast
- 125ml warm water
- 200g can chopped tomatoes, juice drained
- handful cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1 large courgette, thinly sliced using a peeler
- 25g mozzarella, torn into pieces
- 1 tsp capers in brine, drained
- 8 green olives, roughly chopped
- 1 garlic clove, finely chopped
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp chopped parsley, to serve
Method
- Mix the flours and yeast with a pinch of salt in a food processor fitted with a dough blade. Pour in the water and mix to a soft dough, then work for 1 min. Remove the dough and roll out on a lightly floured surface to a round about 30cm across. Lift onto an oiled baking sheet.
- Spread the canned tomatoes over the dough to within 2cm of the edges. Arrange the cherry tomatoes and courgettes over the top, then scatter with the mozzarella. Mix the capers, olives and garlic, then scatter over the top. Drizzle evenly with the oil. Leave to rise for 20 mins. Heat oven to 240C/ fan 220C/gas 9 or the highest setting.
- Bake the pizza for 10-12 mins until crisp and golden around the edges. Scatter with the parsley to serve.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, April 2009
Pan-fried sea bass with citrus-dressed broccoli
Ingredients
- 2 sea bass fillets, about 140g each (see tips, below)
- 1 small head of broccoli
- 1 orange
- 6 tbsp olive oil
- 4 tbsp small capers
- 6 anchovies, roughly chopped
- 1 lemon
Method
- Before you start cooking, get everything prepared. Trim each sea bass fillet so they are both the same shape, then score the skin, cutting into the flesh slightly, 5 or 6 times at about 1cm intervals. Set aside.
- Segment the orange – slice off the top and bottom, then cut away the skin and pith. Cut away each segment, then squeeze out the juice from the rest of the orange into a bowl. Cut the broccoli into medium-size florets.
- To make the warm broccoli salad, cook the florets in a pan of boiling salted water for 1 min until just cooked. While the broccoli is cooking, put a frying pan on to heat. As soon as the broccoli is cooked, drain it, then tip straight into the hot frying pan to ‘scorch’ out all the moisture.
- Turn off the heat, then scatter the orange segments over the broccoli. Toss for a few moments just to heat through, then tip into a bowl and dress with the orange juice and 2 tbsp olive oil. Season with pepper and a small sprinkling of sea salt, then set aside.
- Wipe out the pan. Season the fish with a little salt and pepper just before cooking. Heat the frying pan until very hot, then add 2 tbsp oil. Lay the fish fillets in the pan, skin-side down. As soon as it goes in, press each fillet down with your fingers or a fish slice to stop it from curling up.
- Reduce the heat to medium, then leave the fish to cook for 3-4 mins, undisturbed, until you can see that the flesh has cooked two-thirds of the way up and the skin is crisp and brown.
- Flip the fillets over, then fry on the flesh side for about 2 mins until just done, basting the skin with the oil in the pan as it cooks. Leave to rest on a warm plate, skin-side up, and baste with the hot oil and juices from the pan.
- Pour 2 tbsp olive oil into the pan and place it back on a high heat. Scatter in the capers and anchovies, then cook until they start to crisp. Grate over the lemon zest and squeeze in the juice of ½ the lemon. If there isn’t enough juices in the pan to drizzle over both plates, add a splash more oil. You are now ready to plate.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, February 2009
Healthy fish & chips with tartare sauce
Ingredients
- 450g potatoes, peeled and cut into chips
- 1 tbsp olive oil, plus a little extra for brushing
- 2 white fish fillets about 140g/5oz each
- grated zest and juice 1 lemon
- small handful of parsley leaves, chopped
- 1 tbsp capers, chopped
- 2 heaped tbsp 0% Greek yogurt
- lemon wedge, to serve
Method
- Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Toss chips in oil. Spread over a baking sheet in an even layer, bake for 40 mins until browned and crisp. Put the fish in a shallow dish, brush lightly with oil, salt and pepper. Sprinkle with half the lemon juice, bake for 12-15 mins. After 10 mins sprinkle over a little parsley and lemon zest to finish cooking.
- Meanwhile, mix the capers, yogurt, remaining parsley and lemon juice together, set aside and season if you wish. To serve, divide the chips between plates, lift the fish onto the plates and serve with a spoonful of yogurt mix.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, February 2005