Cheat’s bourride

  • Portion size: Serves 4
  • Hands-on time 10 min, simmering time 20 min
  • Difficulty: easy

We’ve put a twist on bourride – a French fish stew – to cut down the cooking time but not the flavour. Make this midweek meal in just 30 minutes.

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Ingredients

  • 1 tbsp light olive oil
  • 2 onions, thinly sliced
  • 1 tsp fennel seeds, bruised
  • 1.2 litres fish stock or water
  • Pinch saffron threads
  • Pared zest and juice 1 orange
  • ½-1 tsp cayenne pepper
  • 100g dried lasagne sheets, roughly broken up
  • 400g pack frozen fish pie mix (check the fish is from a sustainable source)
  • 4 tbsp good garlic mayonnaise (aïoli)
  • Large handful fresh flatleaf parsley, finely chopped
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Method

  1. Heat the oil in a medium heavy-based saucepan over a low-medium heat. Cook the onions for 8 minutes until starting to soften and turn golden. Add the fennel seeds and cook for a further 2 minutes.
  2. Add the stock, saffron, pared zest and cayenne pepper. Bring to the boil, then add the broken-up lasagne sheets and cook according to the pack instructions
    (about 8 minutes), adding the fish pie mix after the first 2 minutes of cooking.
  3. Remove from the heat, stir in the mayonnaise/aïoli and parsley, season with a pinch of salt and a grind of pepper, then squeeze over the juice from the orange to taste.
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Nutrition

  • 373kcals Calories
  • 18.7g (2g saturated) Fat
  • 24.4g Protein
  • 25g (6.2g sugars) Carbs
  • 3.3g Fibre
  • 3.5g Salt
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