Mediterranean fish stew with cheese toasts
Serves: 4
Total time: 
Recipe photograph by Kris Kirkham
Mediterranean fish stew with cheese toasts
Serves: 4
Total time: 
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Nutritional information (per serving)
Calories
631Kcal
Fat
31gr
Saturates
11gr
Carbs
35gr
Sugars
9gr
Fibre
5gr
Protein
45gr
Salt
2.2gr
Debora Robertson
Debora Robertson is a food writer, editor, and an inveterate kitchen botherer. She lives in London, where she is always on the hunt for new things to eat, blogs at Love and a Licked Spoon
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Debora Robertson
Debora Robertson is a food writer, editor, and an inveterate kitchen botherer. She lives in London, where she is always on the hunt for new things to eat, blogs at Love and a Licked Spoon
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Ingredients
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 1 fennel bulb, finely sliced
- a sprig of thyme
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed, plus 1 garlic clove, halved
- 100ml dry white wine
- 1 x 500g carton passata
- 250ml fish, chicken or vegetable stock
- 4 tbsp freshly squeezed orange juice, plus a piece of pared zest
- 600g mixed skinless, boneless fish fillets, cut into large chunks (eg cod and salmon)
- 4-5 tbsp roughly chopped flat-leaf parsley
- 8 slices of baguette
- 150g Gruyère cheese, grated
Step by step
- Warm the olive oil over a medium heat in a large pan. Add the onion, fennel, thyme and a good pinch of salt. Sauté for about 10 minutes until softened, stirring occasionally. Add the crushed garlic, stir for a minute, then pour in the wine; simmer until almost evaporated
- Add the passata, stock, orange juice and zest; simmer for 10 minutes. Adjust the seasoning.
- Add the fish and simmer gently until just opaque, about 4 minutes. Discard the thyme sprig and pared zest, and stir in the parsley.
- While the fish is cooking, toast the baguette under the grill. Rub the toasts with the cut garlic clove; divide the cheese between them. Grill until melting.
- Ladle the stew into warmed bowls and serve with the cheese toasts.
