Tomato-baked herb-crusted fish

Recipe By:Zola Nene
Serves:4
Cooking Time:30 minutes
Serving Suggestion:steamed cous cous to serve
Prep Time:5 minutes

Ingredients

  • 4 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 tbsp garlic, chopped
  • pinch chilli flakes
  • 1 tbsp thyme, chopped
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 1 tin chopped tomatoes
  • salt and pepper
  • 800 g hake, deboned and skinless, cut into 4 portions
  • 1 cup fresh breadcrumbs (about 6 slices white bread, pulsed in a food processor)
  • 2 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped
  • 1 lemon, zested
  • pinch chilli flakes

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Cooking Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 200C
  2. In a pan, saute some crushed garlic, chilli flakes and thyme in 1 Tbs olive oil.
  3. Add the tomatoes, sugar and season with salt and pepper.
  4. Transfer to an oven dish.
  5. Nestle the fish on top of the tomato mixture.
  6. Mix together breadcrumbs,3 Tbs olive oil, coriander, lemon zest, chilli flakes and seasoning, then scatter generously onto the fish.
  7. Place into the hot oven and bake for 15 minutes or until the fish is cooked through and the crumbs are golden.
  8. Serve with steamed cous cous with lemon wedges on the side.