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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

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SIMPLY COOKED FISH IN A BAG

fish in foil

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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