Salmon and dill spaghetti

Serves 4 : Very easy : Quick

Ingredients
300gm spaghetti
1 small onion, thinly sliced
300 – 400gm skinless salmon steak fillets, cut in chunks
±18 – 24 small prawns, cleaned
2 cups fat free milk

3 Tblsp chopped fresh dill
1 Tblsp cornflour

Lemon zest to garnish

Method
Put the spaghetti on to cook in lightly salted boiling water.
Drain when al dente and keep warm.

Poach the onion, salmon and prawns in the milk until the fish flakes easily.
Remove the salmon and prawns from the milk.
Thicken the milk with the corn flour slackened with a little water.
Season with black pepper and the chopped dill.
Put the salmon and prawns back into the sauce and heat through.

Serve the fish over the spaghetti, garnished with grated lemon zest and a sprig of dill.
Accompany with a fresh, crisp salad.

Scilly fish

Serves 4 : Very easy : Very quick

Ingredients
450gm skinless hake fillets, cut in chunks
2 anchovies, chopped
2 onions, thinly sliced
3 fennel bulbs, thinly sliced
2 red ‘bonnet’ chillies, deseeded, thinly sliced
2 x 400gm tins chopped tomatoes
200ml dry white wine (optional)
500ml veg or fish stock
100gm couscous

Lemon zest and parsley to garnish

Method
Spray a large pan with non-stick cooking spray.
Dry fry the onion, fennel, chillies and anchovies until the onion begins to soften.
Pour in the tomatoes, stock and wine, and bring to a boil.
Stir in the couscous.
Scatter fish chunks over the top.
Cover with a lid and simmer for 5 to 10 minutes, until the fish flakes easily.

Serve garnished with lemon zest and chopped parsley

The couscous is the starch here, but you could serve with crusty bread if you wish.

Salmon Surprise

Serves 4 : Very easy : Quick

Ingredients
1 x 400gm tin pink salmon in brine, drained
2 cups frozen peas, thawed
4 eggs, hard boiled and sliced

2 cups fat free milk
1 – 2 Tblsp corn flour

400gm potatoes
1 large tomato, sliced
45gm strong cheese, grated
1 Tblsp chopped fresh parsley

Method
Cook the potatoes in lightly salted boiling water.
Once cooked, drain well and mash.

Heat the oven to 200ºc.

Make a white sauce with the milk and corn flour.
Fold in the peas and salmon.

Place the salmon/sauce mix in a deep dish.
Cover with slices of hardboiled egg.
Then spoon the mashed potato over the top.

Decorate the dish with the tomato, cheese and parsley.
Bake in the oven for about 20 minutes, or until the cheese is browned and the sauce is bubbling.

Serve with a fresh salad.

Hurry fish curry

Serves 4 : Very easy : Quick

Ingredients
1 onion, chopped
1 – 2 Tblsp curry paste
450gm skinless hake fillets, cut into large chunks
400gm tin chopped tomatoes
250ml veg stock
2 cups green beans

240gm rice

Method
Put the rice on to cook in lightly salted boiling water.
Drain when cooked, and keep warm.

Spray a pan with non-stick cooking spray.
Dry fry the onion until it begins to soften.
Stir through the curry paste.
Add the tomatoes, stock and green beans.
Lastly add the fish chunks.
Bring to a simmer.
Cook for 5 minutes.

Serve the curry with the rice and sambals of your choice.

Tuna Pasta

Serves 4 : Very easy : Quick

Ingredients
240gm penne
2 small tins tuna chunks in brine or spring water, drained
2 Tblsp pine nuts
1 red pepper, sliced
200gm button mushrooms, sliced
2 courgettes, chopped
150gm cherry tomatoes, halved
2 spring onions, sliced
¼ cup water

Method
Put the pasta on to cook in lightly salted boiling water.
Drain when al dente and keep warm.

Spray a saucepan with non-stick cooking spray.
Toast the pine nuts slightly and then add the red pepper slices, the courgettes and tomatoes.
Add the mushrooms, spring onions and water.
Stir well.
Cover with a lid and simmer for 10 minutes.

Tip the drained tuna and the pasta into the vegetables.
Stir to combine.

Serve with a mixed lettuce and fresh basil salad.

Cabbage and beans with white fish

Serves 4 : Very easy : Quick

Ingredients
4 large fillets of hake (skin on)

4 rashers back bacon, all visible fat removed, chopped
1 onion, sliced
2 stalks celery, sliced
2 large carrots, chopped
2 baby cabbages, shredded
1 large potato, cut into small chunks
½ cup dry white wine (optional)
250ml chicken stock
1 x ±440gm tin cannellini beans, rinsed and drained

Method
Spray a large pan with non-stick cooking spray and place over heat.
Dry fry the bacon for a few minutes and then add the onion, celery and carrots.
Continue stir frying until the onion begins to soften.
Add the potato pieces.
Pour in the wine (if using) and the stock.
Cover and simmer for 10 minutes.

Add the cabbage and the beans and lots of black pepper.
Cover and simmer for another 10 minutes. (The cabbage should still have some crunch)

Now spray a large frying pan with non-stick cooking spray and place over heat.
Spray the fish with non-stick cooking spray, too.
Place the fish in the pan, skin side down.
Cook for about 5 minutes before turning.
Cook the other side until the fish flakes easily.
(Cooking time depends on whether your fish is fresh or frozen)

Serve the fish on top of the cabbage and beans.

I cut my fish fillets in half to accommodate them in the pan – they were about 140gm each. Cabbage done this way is really delicious. I left the skin on my potato and par-cooked it in the microwave for a couple of minutes.

Lemon and rosemary fish with chips

Serves 4 : Very easy : Quick

Ingredients
8 small fillets hake (about 60gm each)
1 tsp dried rosemary
40gm dried breadcrumbs
Grated rind and juice of 1 lemon

4 large tomatoes, halved
2 cups frozen peas
400gm oven chips
1 small pack mixed lettuce

Method
Cook the oven chips according to the packet instructions.
Grill or microwave the tomato halves.
Microwave, steam or boil the frozen peas.

Mix the breadcrumbs, rosemary and lemon rind together.
Brush the fish with lemon juice and coat lightly with the breadcrumb mix.

Meanwhile, spray a frying pan with non-stick cooking spray and heat.
Dry fry the fish for about 5 minutes each side (longer if cooking from frozen), or until the flesh flakes easily.

Divide the chips and other vegetables between 4 plates, with two fish fillets each.
 

Tuna basil pasta

Serves 4 : Very easy : Quick

Ingredients
240gm pasta penne
1 aubergine, chopped
1 cup frozen peas

2 x 170gm tins tuna in brine, drained and flaked
150gm cherry tomatoes, halved
±10 large basil leaves, chopped
½ cup tomato puree
½ cup water

Method
Cook the pasta in lightly salted boiling water for 10 minutes.
Add the chopped aubergine and the frozen peas and simmer for a further 5 – 10 minutes until the aubergine is transparent, and the pasta is al dente.
Drain and set aside.

Using the same saucepan, pour in the tomato puree and water.
Add cherry tomatoes and basil.
Simmer for five minutes.

Tip in the flaked tuna and the drained pasta and vegetables.
Turn gently to combine.
Allow to heat through.

Serve with a crisp green salad.