Pan-fried salmon, sweet potato and broccoli with chilli, garlic and fennel

This is a very simple assembly of flavours that just work together. We are all about keeping things simple and making everyday delicious fish easy.

What you will need: a frying pan and a small saucepan

Ingredients: Salmon, sweet potato, tender-stem broccoli, chilli, garlic and some fennel seeds.

Method:

Put a sweet potato in the oven at 180 C. it will take between 30-45 mins depending on size.

Put a pan on medium heat and add a few glugs of vegetable oil. Season your salmon with salt and place it skin side down in the oil.

In a separate sauce pan being some water to the boil to cook your broc for 3 minutes.

Keep the temperature medium and leave the fish alone for 5 mins or so. After this time you should see the area around the skin has turned to a caramel colour and the flesh as turned opaque nearly all the way to the non pan side.

Flip the fish over for another minute or 2 and then leave it to rest. 

In the pan you cooked the fish in add some olive oil, finely sliced garlic (1/2 clove per person) chilli, and fennel seeds (1tsp per person). Fry gently without colouring the garlic.

add your broccoli to the pan and mix though so it is covered in the chilli/garlic/fennel seed oil. finish with a squeeze of lemon .

Now assemble on a plate with a bit of butter in your sweet potato and dig in!