Baked chorizo orzo with white fish recipe
Created by The Tesco Recipes team
This stylish baked chorizo and white fish orzo makes a great midweek meal or simple dinner party dish. An easy one-pot meal, the tender white fish cooks on top of a rich orzo stew filled with peppers, spinach and spicy chorizo.
See method- Serves 4
- 15 mins to prepare and 40 mins to cook
- 571 calories / serving
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- ½ 225g Spanish chorizo ring, skin removed and sausage finely chopped
- 1 red onion, finely chopped
- 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 1 pepper, finely chopped
- 400g frozen spinach, defrosted
- 10g flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped
- 300g orzo
- 400g chopped tomatoes
- 4 x frozen white fish fillets
Each serving contains
- Energy
- 2400kJ 571.0kcal
- Fat
- 17g
- Saturates
- 5g
- Salt
- 1.6g
- Sugars
- 10g
of the Reference intake
Carbohydrate 65.0gProtein 40.1gFibre 5.0g
Method
- Preheat the oven to gas 6, 200°C, fan 180°C.
- Heat the oil in a shallow ovenproof casserole dish over a high heat. Add the chorizo, onion, garlic and peppers and fry for 5 mins until the chorizo is starting to crisp.
- Place the spinach in a sieve and squeeze out the excess liquid.
- Add half the parsley, the orzo, tinned tomato, spinach and 800ml boiling water to the pan and stir to combine. Bring to the boil and simmer for 3 mins, stirring occasionally.
- Top the orzo with the fillets of fish so they are slightly covered and bake in the oven for 20-25 mins until the fish is cooked throughout.
- Serve topped with the remaining parsley.
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