You can see I like to use chorizo in alot of my cooking, it's a great thing to keep in the fridge and you get an awful lot of flavour for your money. It's also a great way to turn cheap ingredients to be some thing special!
At the supermarket the other night there was a great pile of bagged fresh fish sitting in the reduced section, I was there like a shot a found and big piece of hake fillet. Hake is a meaty white fish, so if there's other white fish you can spot at a bargain, try it with that instead. Just remember to work out the cooking times out for your size of fish.
You will need:
1 hake fillet
Tennis ball sized piece of stale bread
Good inch of chorizo sausage
Handful of Parmesan shavings
2 dessert spoons of cream cheese
- First turn you oven to 190C. Line a baking tray with baking/parchment paper and splash in a bit of olive oil so the fish doesn't stick.
- Chop the chorizo into chunks and cook it gently in the pan until it goes all crispy.
Now this next bit does require using a mini chopper, or you could chop it all up with a knife and bash the bread into crumbs inside a freezer bag. But I have just bought a mini chopper / food processor, and it's making me lazy!
- Chunk up the bread and whizz it in the chopper until it looks like big breadcrumbs, then add in the crispy cooked chorizo (including all the lovely orangey oil in the pan) and a handful of parmesan shavings. Whizz again untill the chorizo is in small pieces and the breadcrumbs have turned a golden colour.
- Cut the hake fillet into 2 even pieces and place on the baking tray, spread over a thin layer of cream cheese and season with salt and pepper. Top with the cheesy chorizo crumb mixture.
- Cook the hake on the top shelf in the oven for 25minutes.
It works brilliantly with oven roasted cherry tomatoes.
Try it and see :)
Enjoy
