Gigot of Monkfish with Roasted Vegetables

When I was young, monkfish was a fish that nobody wanted and nobody bought. It was largely turned into fake scampi and you could get it terribly cheaply. Now I’m afraid it is rather more expensive but a good tail of monkfish (it is never sold with the head because the head is huge and heavy and incredibly ugly as you would have seen if you were watching Jennifer and I meeting a ‘monk netter’ as they are appropriately called down in Mevagissey in the very first programme of