Orange Glazed Fish with Moroccan Couscous

Orange Glazed Fish with Moroccan Couscous

Ready in 25 minutes Serves 4-5
This dish most recently appeared in My Classic (5 Nights For 4) on Sunday, July 1, 2018.

Ingredients

Couscous

  • 1 courgette
  • 1 red onion
  • 2 cloves minced garlic
  • ¾ cup couscous
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ¾ cup boiling water
  • 1 Lebanese cucumber
  • 1/3 bag baby spinach
  • 3 Tbsp chopped parsley
  • 3 Tbsp chopped mint
  • 1 Tbsp butter
  • 30g currants
  • 50g feta cheese

Fish

  • 600g market fish
  • Zest of 1 orange
  • Juice of 2 oranges
  • 2 Tbsp butter

Steps

  1. Bring a full kettle to the boil. Finely dice courgette and red onion. Heat a drizzle of olive oil in a medium frypan on high heat. Cook courgette, onion and garlic for about 3 minutes until slightly charred and onion is soft.
  2. Place couscous, salt and a drizzle of olive oil in a heatproof bowl or small pot and pour over boiling water. Stir, cover and leave to swell for 5 minutes, until tender.
  3. While couscous cooks, dice cucumber and roughly chop spinach. Add both to a large bowl with herbs and set aside. Pat fish dry, remove any remaining scales or bones and season with salt.
  4. Heat a good drizzle of olive oil in a large fry-pan (preferably non-stick) on medium-high heat. Cook fish for 1–2 minutes each side until just cooked through. Add orange zest, juice and second measure of butter. Allow butter to melt and spoon orange butter glaze over fish.
  5. Add first measure of butter to couscous and fluff up with a fork. Toss couscous with courgette mixture cucumber, herbs, spinach and currants. Crumble over feta and season to taste.
  6. To serve, divide couscous between plates and top with a piece of fish. Spoon over any extra orange butter glaze from the pan.

Nutritional Information

Energy 1796 kj
429 kcal
Protein 34.8g
Carbohydrate 24.7g
Fat 21.2g