Name: Couscous & fish in a bag
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Moroccan
Ingredients: 1 lemon; 100g couscous; 25g pine nut toasted; 1 small courgette thinly sliced; small handful dill leaves only, chopped; 150ml strong vegetable stock; 1 haddock or other white fish fillet

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Couscous & fish in a bag

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Serves 1

Easy

Prep: 10 mins

Cook: 20 mins - 25 mins

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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1 lemon
100g couscous
25g pine nut

toasted
1 small courgette

thinly sliced
small handful dill

leaves only, chopped
150ml strong vegetable stock
1 haddock

or other white fish fillet

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal552
fat20g
saturates23g
carbs57g
sugars6g
fibre2.1g
protein41g
salt0.46g

low

Method

step 1

Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Fold a large sheet of foil or baking paper in half and tightly fold one side to seal. Grate the lemon zest and mix with the couscous, pine nuts, courgette and dill. Season well, then tip into the open ‘bag’. Cut the lemon in half, then cut 2 thin slices from one half. Juice the other half and add the juice to the stock.
step 2

Lay the haddock on top of the couscous, top with the lemon slices, then carefully pour over the lemony stock. Fold the remaining open sides tightly. Bake for 20-25 mins, depending on how thick your fish is, until the fish is cooked and couscous is fluffy.

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HEALTHY BENEFITS

Cooking in a bag steams the fish in its juices, which helps to retain valuable nutrients including the B complex of vitamins. The fish is protected from high oven temperatures, so there’s no need to add oil.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, April 2006

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