Looking for a quick and versatile fish recipe? This hake with potatoes in almond sauce that we propose today becomes a great ally in the kitchen, both to complete the daily menu and to serve on a holiday. And it will only take you 25 minutes to have it ready.
The key to this recipe is in the sauce, which is impossible to resist. In inevitable, as you will have time to verify, wet bread until you finish with it. Doing it is very simple; just fry a few cloves of garlic, toast some almonds and make a mash that will fatten and flavor the sauce.
All the Baked potatoes they always form a great tandem with fish. So that the recipe does not stop being a quick recipe, we have cooked them in the microwave, to add them immediately afterwards to this dish. Little tricks that make this recipe a quick recipe.
The recipe
- 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
- 12 almonds
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 1 chopped onion
- 1 teaspoon of flour
- ⅓ teaspoon of sweet paprika
- A splash of white wine
- 1 glass of fish broth
- Sal Island
- Black pepper
- Fresh parsley
- 6 hake loins or slices
- 2 potatoes
- We heat the oil in a low saucepan and brown the peeled garlic cloves next to the almonds. Once browned, remove from the pan and reserve in a mortar.
- In the same pot, sauté the onion for about 5 minutes.
- Then add the flour and sauté one minute to cook and not indigestible.
- Next, we add the paprika, the white wine and the fish stock. Bring to a boil and cook over medium-low heat a few minutes while we prepare the mash and cook the potatoes.
- To do this we put in the mortar, together with the garlic cloves and almonds, a pinch of salt and a little parsley. We work until we get a paste, incorporating a little of the fish stock from the casserole.
- We also take advantage of prepare the potatoes. We cut them into half-centimeter-thick slices, place them on a well-spread plate, cover it with plastic wrap and take it to the microwave at maximum power for 4 minutes or until the potatoes are tender.
- Once the mash is done and the potatoes are cooked, we add them to the casserole and let it boil for one or two minutes before add the seasoned hake fillets. Cook over low heat for a couple of minutes and then turn the loins to finish cooking.
- We serve the hake with potatoes in a hot almond sauce.