From The Accidental Chef - The Nick's Warehouse Cookbook, by Nick Price (Booklink, hardback, 144pp, colour photography throughout; £20)
Aka 'spetse fish' after a small island in the Saronic Gulf, Greece, where Kathy and I had our honeymoon 7 months late, but we were skint and had to save up after the event! We had a great couple of weeks. Kathy learned the finer points of ouzo drinking and I learned to love octopus and spetse fish.
When we got back home I tried many times to replicate the dish, as experienced on Spetse, and eventually succeeded.
4 pieces of thick hake about 170g per portion
Peperonata sauce
1 onion sliced
pinch of chilli flakes
1 of each red, green, yellow peppers, sliced
2 fresh tomatoes chopped (you can use tinned in winter)
3 cloves garlic crushed
1 tbsp basil chopped
1 tbsp dill chopped
375cl white wine
oil, salt, pepper, sugar tomato ketchup
serves 4
Heat the oil in a heavy saucepan. Add the onions, garlic and chilli flakes, soften and then add the peppers. Cook for 5 minutes, then add the tomatoes, herbs and white wine.
Cook for 30 mins and season with salt and pepper, then add a little tomato ketchup to give sweetness and balance.
Put a layer of sauce into a pyrex dish followed by the fish and then another layer of sauce.
Cover with foil or a lid and bake for about 20 mins.
To be authentic serve with saute potatoes and maybe a Greek salad -tomatoes, cucumber, feta red onion olives.
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