We have been given the most beautiful, huge pieces of hake and as this fish can take on so many wonderful flavours, I decided to make use of the anchovy butter with olives and caper berries to sauce it up. Hake is a locally caught fish and there are quite a few companies in the Western Cape that trawl for hake. We don’t often eat it and over Easter you will find that this fish is quite expensive. At that time of the year I tend to buy frozen hake which is filleted and packaged at sea in most instances. The rest of the year, when the fish are in abundance, hake is quite reasonably priced.
Hake with Anchovy Butter, Olives and Caper Berries
Ingredients
- Salt to season
- hake fillets
- 15g butter
- 1 shallot, sliced
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- 10 olives, depipped
- 10 caper berries
- 10g anchovy butter
Method
- salt the skin of the hake
- heat the butter in a frying pan and sauté the shallot and the garlic
- place the hake in the pan skin side down
- when cooked turn, and add the olives and caper berries
- serve with the anchovy butter
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It looks great!!
thank you 🙂
We are eating raw this month and I think this post sums up what I miss most. Fish, capers, anchovy butter… yum!
that is such a marvelous this to do – and a good fish dish will be a great reward. Good luck with the raw food diet 🙂
Fab flavours. Yum!
thanks so much 🙂
looks great!
thanks JamieAnne 🙂
What an interesting flavor combo, I love it. This looks great Tandy!
thank you Caroline 🙂
Hi Tandy, Caper berries and olives make your fish dish a stand out.
thanks so much Karen 🙂
How weird, I made skate with capers last night and was going to do a post soon! This looks lovely with the anchovy butter – wish I´d thought of that!
how awesome! I wish we got skate here 🙂
What a fabulous meal! Pete would want to know where the chips are though. 😉
Have a happy day. 🙂
There was not enough space on the plate LOL!
My kind of meal too! Love the anchovy butter… 🙂
thanks Celia 🙂
My kind of meal *heart*
I will save you a piece for when you visit 🙂