Ingredients
- Serves 4
- 4 large fillets of fish, grouper, gurnard or whatever tickles your fancy
- 2 lemons
- 4 spring onions, sliced into 2cm long pieces (use the green end as well)
- 4 potatoes, cooked and sliced into ½ cm slices
- handful sweet cherry tomatoes
- Sprig fresh thyme, basil, dill or parsley
- Sea salt and cracked black pepper
- White wine
- Extra virgin olive oil
- Tin foil for wrapping
SIMPLY COOKED FISH IN A BAG
Method
- Preheat the oven 200C Lay four large sheets of tin foil on your work surface
- Divide the cooked potatoes between each parcel and place in the centre of one half of each piece of tinfoil
- (it will be folded over)
- Now place the fish fillets on top of each pile of potatoes, and season lightly with salt and pepper
- Drizzle over a little oil, and scatter over the spring onions add little leaf or two of herbs and garnish with a thin round of lemon
- Fold over the remaining tin foil so it neatly reaches the other side (try not to squash the fish)
- Tightly fold the edges together starting from one side and working to the other
- When almost complete add a splash of wine and seal tightly
- Continue until all the parcels are completed (this can be done ahead of time and stored in the fridge)
- Place carefully onto a preheated oven tray
- Bake for 8-12 minutes or until the parcel puffs up like a pillow
- Carefully remove from the oven and serve straight away
- Any sort of fish can be cooked like this and it marries to many flavours
- Try a dash of soy sauce, spring onions, chilli and ginger
- The options are endless
Comments
Thanks to Edmonds Fresh Fish for providing the fish used in the cooking demonstration at the Otago Farmers Market
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