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Fish recipes

Fresh fish is full of flavour and goodness and makes easy, tasty meals

• Fish tray bake Filling as well as tasty – the kids will love them too, as long as you go easy with the chillies
• Crab cakes Filling as well as tasty – the kids will love them too, as long as you go easy with the chillies
• Grilled trout with
  almond butter Always popular, the delicate flavour of trout goes wonderfully with almond butter
• Peppercorn crust tuna steaks with tomato salsa Quick to make, this great mixture of flavours adds zing to tuna steaks
• Poached skate with
  brown butter You can poach any fish in the same way, using just enough water to cover
• Sea bass en papillote A succulent way to cook whole fish that seals in the flavour and looks delicious
• Fish pie with sweetcorn
• Fish, tomato, pepper and orange stew
• Moules marinières
  with fennel Mussels married with the aromatic aniseed flavours of fennel make this a fresh and tasty version of a French classic
• Spice crusted sea bream fillets with couscous The flavours and golden colour that the spices add to the fish make this an easy but stunning meal
• Squid rings and pea tagliatelle Use deliciously sweet, fresh British garden peas if you can
• Baked sardines with baby carrots and courgettes Fresh summer sardines are a treat – add a touch of spice with this unusual Indian recipe
• Crab and courgette salad Dressed Cromer crab, from the seaside town on the Norfolk coast, is famous for its high proportion of white to brown meat
• Salmon cannellini and watercress salad British watercress is famed for its tangy flavour and iron-rich goodness