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Cheat’s bourride

Name: Cheat’s bourride
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: French recipes
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

Published: 7 Feb 19
Updated: 18 Mar 24

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.

Easy
December 2018

Test kitchen approved

Serves 4
Hands-on time 10 min, simmering time 20 min

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.

Nutrition: per serving

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

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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

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.
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.
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.