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Healthy nut and herb crusted fish and chips with pea mash

Nut-Crusted Hake with fresh Herbs

Hake fillet crusted with a healthy herb and nut mix - adapted from The Healthy Life by Jessica Sepel
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Total Time 25 minutes
Course Main Course
Cuisine Mediterranean
Servings 4

Ingredients
  

  • ½ almonds toasted
  • ¾ cup chopped fresh herbs parsley, basil, coriander, mint
  • 1 tsp dried oregano
  • ½ tsp dried rosemary
  • 1 lemon, zested and juiced use 1 tbsp juice and 1 tsp zest
  • 1 tbsp olive oil extra virgin
  • ¼ cup grated parmesan
  • salt and pepper, to taste
  • 4 portions of fresh skinless white fish fillets e.g hake

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 180℃.
  • Place all the ingredients except the fish in a food processor and pulse until finely chopped to a coarse crumb. Taste and season accordingly.
  • Place a sheet of cling wrap on a plate and spoon over a quarter of the nut mixture. Use a spoon and compress into a rectangle shape, roughly the size of a single fish portion.
  • Place a fish fillet over the nut crumb and wrap tightly in the clingfilm, pressing the nut mixture into the fish fillet. Repeat for the remaining fish fillets and place in the fridge for 10 minutes.
  • Unwrap the fish fillets and gently place on a lined baking tray, crumb side up. Bake for 10-15 minutes until the the fish flakes apart with a fork. Serve with a drizzle of olive oil.