How to cook healthy and budget hake: a recipe for the whole family

Hake is a very tasty and satisfying fish that can be cooked with vegetables and sauces. It can also be baked, stewed, and fried.

The cook shared on Instagram a recipe for delicious fish stewed in vegetables, with spices and tomato paste.

Ingredients:

• hake
• 200 g bell pepper
• 1 onion
• 2 small or 1 large carrot
• 1 tomato (optional)
• 90 g tomato paste
• 20 g oil (for frying)
• 30 g wheat flour (for frying fish)
• 0.7 tsp of dry paprika
• spices for fish (optional)
• salt/pepper – to taste

Method of preparation:

1. Clean, wash, and cut the fish into several pieces as you like. Season with salt, add fish spices (optional), roll in flour, and fry on both sides for a few minutes until half cooked.

2. In a saucepan or a wide dish (frying pan with a lid), fry the chopped onion. When the onions are browned, add the thinly sliced carrots and simmer for a few more minutes, add the chopped bell pepper, tomato paste, tomato, 150 ml of boiling water, spices, and sugar, then stir, and bring to a boil.

3. Add the fried hake (raw is fine) to the vegetable mixture, cover, and simmer over low heat for 15-20 minutes.