Seared Hake Recipe with Leeks and Potatoes | Easy Fish Loin (2024)

Healthy cooking on a budget is hard if you don’t have the time to commit to it. So often I hear from my cooking class students that they buy all this produce, use part of it, and then leave the remaining half a head of broccoli to die a slow death in the fridge. The next time they cook, perhaps a week or two later, they’re less inclined to invest in fresh, healthy vegetables because they’re afraid, unlike those canned beans and bags of white rice, that it won’t last.

As a self-proclaimed lazy cook, I’m all for cutting corners if it allows you to spend time at the stove instead of browsing Seamless Web. And luckily for all you busy folks, there’s a new wave of meal services that take the hassle out of planning and shopping for dinner.

A few weeks ago, I finally tried Blue Apron and instead of doing my usual haul back and forth to Whole Foods, a beautifully packaged box of pre-portioned ingredients arrived on my doorstep with 3 recipes to try. Since Thanksgiving was coming up and I hate turning my crisper drawer into a vegetable cemetery, it was a relief to have exactly what I needed to make the meals and no more. My back was also grateful not to have to carry anything home, and my dignity thanked Blue Apron for delaying my inevitable granny cart purchase by one more week.

Two of the recipes sadly had gluten in them, so Charlie traded me two foot massages for an overflowing Tupperware container of yuzu-glazed chicken. But the seared hake I kept all for myself.

I love baking vegetables this time of year, so the melted leeks and potatoes that provided the bed for my fish were right up my alley. They got braised in a foil packet, which made for easy cleanup (lazy cooks hate needless dirty dishes!), though the resulting sauce of garlic, butter and lemon zest would have been reason enough to lick the pan clean myself.

Try your hand at this easy, healthy hake recipe below, or sign up for your own box of whatever seasonal ingredients and quick, tasty dishes Blue Apron is serving up this week. Feed Me Phoebe readers can get $20 off their first Blue Apron purchase here. There also offer great gift sets that you can get your loved ones this holiday season, just in case you don’t like trading meals for massages like I do.

Happy cooking!

Xo
Phoebe

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