Basa Fillets With Bacon and Spinach
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp butter or olive oil
- 4 basa fillets
- 4 slices bacon cut into thin strips
- 100 g spinach fresh leaves, washed
- 1 lemon
- salt to taste - I used black Sea salt flakes
- honey optional - to drizzle
Instructions
- Heat the butter in a large frying pan – you can use olive oil however butter gives a nice brown crispiness – and when melted fry the bacon strips.
- When these are cooked use a slotted spoon to lift them out onto a small plate and set aside. In the bacon-y juices fry the fish fillets on both sides for several minutes until cooked through.
- Serve the warm fish on a bed of washed spinach. The heat will wilt the spinach leaves.
- Scatter over the cooked bacon strips, squeeze over some fresh lemon juice, a drizzle of clear honey.
Notes
The lemon pictured has been chargrilled to get the pleasing black stripes but there’s no need to do this at home unless you want to.
*Used here was a Cypriot black salt by FalkSalt available in selected branches of M&S.
This dish goes beautifully with a warm potato salad and if the mood takes you, a glass of chilled white wine. If you can dine in the garden even better!
This dish goes beautifully with a warm potato salad and if the mood takes you, a glass of chilled white wine. If you can dine in the garden even better!