Baked Cod Steaks with Butter Beans and Avgolémono

Name: Baked Cod Steaks with Butter Beans and Avgolémono
Cuisine: Mediterranean
Ingredients: 2 rashers of streaky bacon, chopped; 1 small onion, chopped; 1 garlic clove, crushed; 1 tablespoon olive oil; ¼ teaspoon dried chilli flakes; 100 g dried butter beans; 800 ml well-flavoured hot chicken stock; 3 plum tomatoes, roughly chopped; 1 tablespoon chopped flat-leaf parsley; salt and freshly cracked black pepper; salt and freshly cracked black pepper; 4 cod steaks, 225g each; 2 shallots, thinly sliced; juice of ½ lemon; 150 ml fish stock; 150 ml avgolémono, to serve

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Paul Gayler's Sauce Book

By Paul Gayler

Published 2015

About

The cod here can be substituted for halibut, if you like.

Ingredients

1 small onion, chopped
2 rashers of streaky bacon, chopped
1 tablespoon

Europe
Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Preheat the oven to 160°C/325°F/gas mark 3. In a large ovenproof casserole, sweat the onion and bacon in the oil over a low heat for 3–4 minutes. Add the garlic, chilli flakes and butter beans and cook for 1 minute.
Pour on the chicken stock, bring to