fish from the freezer feat

Thursday night’s gym night, then straight back to the flat to start dinner. It’s almost the end of the week! I planned on doing a freezer raid, and I came out with frozen smoked haddock, frozen peas and frozen green beans. Perfect! It may not sound gourmet, but the results were extremely satisfying.

Smoked haddock with pea puree and green beans
(serves 2)

2-3 Youngs frozen haddock fillets (depending on size – total, about 350 g)
300 g frozen peas (garden peas or petit pois)
200 g frozen green beans
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Tartar sauce

Preheat the oven to 180 C. Wrap the haddock fillets in a foil parcel and bake for 30-35 minutes. (Add a lemon wedge if you like, but it’s not necessary)

Ten minutes before the fish is due to finish, steam the green beans and the peas. (I like to use a two tier steamer.) Remove the peas and puree with a hand blender, adding salt and pepper.

Divide the pea puree equally on the two plates. Add the green beans to the side, and then the fish, angling it so that one end is propped up on the puree. Add additional pepper and a dollop (1 tbsp) of tartar sauce. Serve immediately.

Because it was gym night, I split the portions 50/50 with my husband, cutting the third fillet in half. Other nights I might give him both, or just make two fillets.

Total calories for one serving: 445 – very healthy and really, just scrummy. The smoked haddock gives such a wonderful savoury flavour, and the pea puree is divine. My husband loved it – it even beat chip shop mushy peas, he said. (No doubt they are healthier too, at about 70 cals per 100 g. If you wanted to cut the calories, just don’t have the tartar sauce – it will reduce your count by about 80 calories.

This has been one of my favourite dinners all week, topping even the swede curry.