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They had monkfish on the fish counter in Makro on Saturday, so we treated ourselves to a tenner’s worth. But what to do with it? I’m currently trying to do a low fat diet, having just been given a preliminary diet of diabetes [scream], so wanted to be careful.

So: finely sliced 1.5 onions (as we had .5 left from lunch), and a red pepper, and chopped some garlic, and fried them off in much less olive oil than I usually would, adding four small Unearthed chorizo to the mix. When they were cooked, we stirred in a couple of teaspoons of our home made Ras el Hanout, stirred it about a bit, then hurled in a big can of chickpeas (probably twice the size of the normal ones) and a carton of passata, then about half a carton of water. Little bit of salt and some fresh rosemary went in next.

Cooked that for about half an hour, then added the chunked monkfish. The flesh didn’t really want to come off the end of the tailbone, so we hurled that in whole. Cooked the lot for another ten minutes or so, and consumed with couscous.

It made three meals worth (so six servings), and Pete manfully parted the bone from the fish when it was cold.