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Hake in Herby Breadcrumbs

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Hake in herby breadcrumbs is a fairly simple way of serving hake, or any other white fish. It has a nice crunchy texture and subtle flavours from the herbs and pine nuts. It's easily scalable. The details here are for two servings.

Total 00:25
Yield 2 persons

Ingredients

  • 1 cup breadcrumbs
  • ½ cup chopped herbs (e.g. parsley, tarragon, etc.)
  • 1 tablespoon pine nuts
  • 2 tablespoons avocado oil or olive oil
  • Salt to taste
  • Pepper to taste
  • 2 ea. (200 g) hake fillets
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • Lemon juice

Instructions

  1. 1
    Preheat the oven to gas mark 4.
  2. 2
    Mix together the breadcrumb ingredients in a food processor, adding the oil last. It should be a slightly moist mixture.
  3. 3
    Dip each hake fillet in beaten egg, then in the breadcrumb mix. Try to get the fillet evenly coated.
  4. 4
    Place each fillet in a gratin dish, drizzling a little oil on top.
  5. 5
    Bake in the oven for 20 minutes until the breadcrumbs are browned.
  6. 6
    Sprinkle some lemon juice on top.
  7. 7
    Serve with a dressed salad.
Category
Entree/Main
Method
Baking

Recipe Attribution

Wikibooks Cookbook
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Hake_in_Herby_Breadcrumbs