Braised peas with bacon, lentils & cod

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1. To make the pea braise, heat half the olive oil in a shallow saucepan, then sizzle bacon for 5 mins until crisp. Turn the heat down, add the peas to the pan, then cover and braise for 8-10 mins until peas are tender (about 5 mins if you're using frozen peas). Add the lentils to the peas and cook until heated, then remove from heat and dress with lemon juice, seasoning and a bit more olive oil, if necessary. Just before serving, stir through the mint.
2. Meanwhile, heat the butter in a frying pan until frothy, then add the fish, skin-side down, and cook for 4 mins until the skin is crisp and the fish almost cooked. Flip the fillets over and cook for 1 min. Divide the peas between 4 plates and top with fish. Drizzle with olive oil and serve with a wedge of lemon.

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Making a fresh pea salsa by mixing chopped tomatoes, cold cooked peas, chopped spring onion, olive oil and red wine vinegar together.

Per serving

372 kcalories, protein 34g, carbohydrate 18g, fat 19 g, saturated fat 7.7g, fibre 5g, salt 2.7 g

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  Delicious and really easy

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  Delicious - quick, easy and really impressive - have cooked this several times and it always proves really popular

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  17 June 2008

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  The peas bacon and lentils are very tasty and I often use this as a side dish. For this recipe I substituted the cod for salmon (cooked in a foil parcel in the oven with bacon, lemon, ginger, and white wine) and it was lovely.

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  Unfortunately, I was a bit disappointed with this and didn't find it as tasty as I was hoping. The peas, bacon and mint all went really well together and I would probably also use this as a side dish but as a main meal, I found it just a little bit dry and a bit boring. Probably won't be making again.

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  I also made this with salmon, and reading that it was a bit dry, added some vegetable stock and then a clove of garlic for flavour. I was delicious!

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  great side dish, you could serve with anything, fish, steak...

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Ingredients

• 25g butter
• 4 sustainable cod fillets, about 100g/4oz each, skin on

FOR THE PEAS

• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 4 thick slices of back bacon , cut into matchsticks
• 300g shelled peas (fresh or frozen)
• 410g can lentils , drained and washed
• 2 lemons , 1 juiced, 1 quartered
• large handful mint leaves, roughly chopped

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Difficulty and servings

Serves 4

Preperation and cooking times

Prep 15 mins

Cook 20 mins

Ingredients

• 25g butter
• 4 sustainable cod fillets, about 100g/4oz each, skin on

FOR THE PEAS

• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 4 thick slices of back bacon , cut into matchsticks
• 300g shelled peas (fresh or frozen)
• 410g can lentils , drained and washed
• 2 lemons , 1 juiced, 1 quartered
• large handful mint leaves, roughly chopped

Per serving

372 kcalories, protein 34g, carbohydrate 18g, fat 19 g, saturated fat 7.7g, fibre 5g, salt 2.7 g

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