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Pan Seared Hake with Piri Piri Sauce

Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Mediterranean
Servings: 2 people

Ingredients

For the Hake

  • 2 Hake loin steaks 200-250g each
  • 1 Lemon
  • 25 g Butter
  • 1 tbsp Vegetable oil
  • Sea salt to taste

For the Piri Piri Sauce

  • 1 Banana Shallot diced
  • 2 Plum tomato diced
  • 2 Red chilli large
  • 1 Bird's eye chilli sliced
  • 2 Red pepper
  • 2 clove Garlic sliced
  • 1 tsp Smoked paprika
  • 3 tbsp Olive oil
  • ½ Lemon juice
  • 1 tsp Red wine vinegar
  • Sea salt to taste

Method

  • Char the red peppers and large red chillies under a grill or with a blow torch until blackened and blistered. Cover with a tea towel or cling film and leave to steam for 10 minutes.
  • Heat a splash of vegetable oil in a pan over a medium-high heat. Add the shallot and cook until soft and lightly coloured.
  • Add the garlic, bird’s eye chilli and plum tomatoes. Cook until thick and sticky.
  • Peel the skin from the peppers and chillies, then add the flesh and any juices to the pan.
  • Stir through the smoked paprika, lemon juice and red wine vinegar. Cook for 1 minute.
  • Blend the sauce until smooth, then slowly blend in the olive oil. Season to taste with sea salt and set aside.
  • Remove the fish from the fridge 15–20 minutes before cooking to allow it to come to room temperature. Pat dry and season with sea salt.
  • Heat the vegetable oil in a pan over a medium-high heat until hot but not smoking.
  • Add the fish skin-side down and cook for 4 minutes until golden and crisp.
  • Add the butter, turn the fish over and cook for a further 2 minutes, basting with the melted butter as it cooks.
  • Remove from the heat and rest for 2–3 minutes.
  • Finish with a squeeze of lemon juice and serve with the warm piri piri sauce.