Name: Baked cod with a chorizo crumb & lemon aïoli
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Mediterranean
Ingredients: 175g cooking chorizo skin removed, cut into chunks; 50g slightly stale breadcrumb; 25g blanched almond toasted and roughly chopped; zest ½ lemon; 1 ½ tbsp olive oil plus extra for greasing; 6 boneless, skinless sustainable cod fillets (about 175g each); 6 tbsp good-quality mayonnaise; ½ garlic clove crushed; 2 tsp lemon juice

Baked cod with a chorizo crumb & lemon aïoli

175g cooking chorizo
skin removed, cut into chunks
50g slightly stale breadcrumb
25g blanched almond
toasted and roughly chopped
zest ½ lemon
1 ½ tbsp olive oil
plus extra for greasing
6 boneless, skinless sustainable cod
fillets (about 175g each)

For the aioli

6 tbsp good-quality mayonnaise
½ garlic clove
crushed
2 tsp lemon juice

Method

step 1
Tip the chorizo into a frying pan and cook over a medium heat until it releases its oil and becomes crisp in places. Meanwhile, make the aïoli: stir together the ingredients with some seasoning, then chill.
step 2
Put the chorizo and its oil in a food processor and pulse until broken into small chunks. Add the breadcrumbs, almonds, lemon zest, seasoning and half the olive oil, then blitz to a crumb.
step 3
Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Put the cod fillets on a lightly greased baking tray, then brush with the remaining oil. Heap the crumbs onto the fish and pat down so that the fillets are well covered. Let them firm up in the fridge for at least 20 mins.
step 4
When you’re ready to cook, pop the fish in the oven for 10-15 mins, depending on the thickness of your fillets, until the flesh has turned opaque and the chorizo crumb is golden.