Name: Mediterranean baked hake
Total time: 50 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Mediterranean
Ingredients: 3 tbsp olive oil; 1 onion sliced; ½ green pepper sliced; ½ red pepper sliced; 3 cloves garlic thinly sliced; 1 tsp hot smoked paprika; 100g mixed pitted olives; 400g tin chopped tomatoes; 4 skinless hake fillets; flat-leaf parsley a handful of leaves; 1 lemon wedged, to serve; crusty bread to serve (optional)

3 tbsp olive oil
1 onion
sliced
½ green pepper
sliced
½ red pepper
sliced
3 cloves garlic
thinly sliced
1 tsp hot smoked paprika
100g mixed pitted olives
400g tin chopped tomatoes
4 skinless hake fillets
flat-leaf parsley
a handful of leaves
1 lemon
wedged, to serve
crusty bread
to serve (optional)

Method

step 1
Heat the oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Heat the olive oil in an ovenproof frying pan over a medium-high heat. Cook the onion and peppers with a pinch of salt for 10 minutes until translucent and slightly charred at the edges. Add the garlic and paprika, and cook for 2 minutes, then tip in the olives, chopped tomatoes and 100ml of water. Simmer gently for 10 minutes.
step 2
Nestle the hake fillets into the sauce and season. Put the pan into the oven for 15 minutes until the fish is just cooked through.
step 3
Sprinkle over the parsley and serve with lemon wedges and crusty bread, if you like.