Baked Hake with Crushed Potatoes, Nutmeg Spinach and Lemon Butter Sauce

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recipe by Suvi Coffey

  • Time icon
    Total Time
    40mins
  • Serves icon
    Serves
    1
  • Calories icon
    Calories
    813

Perfectly seasonal fish dish, that is easy to scale up for a big crowd or make it, as I have done here, just for one.

recipe updated Mar 1, 2022

Ingredients

  • Potato icon
    Potato
    1
  • Water icon
    Water
    as needed
  • Olive oil icon
    Olive oil
    2 tablespoons
  • Black pepper icon
    Black pepper
    as needed
  • Salt icon
    Salt
    as needed
  • Hake fillet icon
    Hake fillet
    1
  • Scallion icon
    Scallion
    1
  • Garlic clove icon
    Garlic clove
    1
  • Baby spinach icon
    Baby spinach
    60 g
  • Nutmeg icon
    Nutmeg
    ½ teaspoon
  • Butter icon
    Butter
    25 g
  • Lemon icon
    Lemon
    1

Tools

  • kCook icon Oven
  • kCook icon Stove
  • kCook icon Cutting board
  • kCook icon Frying pan
  • kCook icon Plate
  • kCook icon Baking pan - 13 x 9"
  • kCook icon Saucepan

Step preview

  1. Pre-heat oven - 190°C
  2. Add potato to a clean cutting board and chop into quarters
  3. Transfer potatoes to saucepan and add water
  4. Boil - 10 min
  5. Drain with sieve and transfer potatoes to baking pan
  6. Use a potato masher to crush the potatoes leaving lots of yummy bits to crisp up
  7. Add olive oil, black pepper and salt to the baking pan
  8. Bake - 15 min, 190°C
  9. Remove from the oven and add hake fillet
  10. Bake - 10 min
  11. Add olive oil, scallion, garlic clove, baby spinach and nutmeg to a clean frying pan
  12. Panfry - approx 5 min
  13. Transfer vegetables to plate and arrange the fish
  14. Add butter and lemon and melt
  15. Drizzle fish with sauce
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