5 Ingredients – Quick & Easy Food
By Jamie Oliver
15 mins
Super easy
serves 4
About the recipe
One-pan dishes like this are great, because they deliver a big flavour punch with minimal washing up. This five-ingredient wonder is all about beautifully fragrant, fluffy rice, perfectly steamed fish and soft, juicy cherry tomatoes, accompanied by a flavour-packed tapenade straight from your store cupboard.
Ingredients
300g white basmati rice
6 heaped teaspoons green olive tapenade
350g ripe mixed-colour cherry tomatoes
½ a bunch of fresh basil (15g)
500g white fish fillets, such as haddock, skin off, pin-boned, from sustainable sources
Top Tip
I’m using white fish, but of course you could make it with salmon or prawns.
Method
- In a large shallow casserole pan on a high heat, mix the rice with 2 heaped teaspoons of tapenade, then pour over 600ml of water.
- Put the lid on and let it come to the boil while you halve the tomatoes and, in a bowl, mix them with 1 tablespoon each of olive oil and red wine vinegar.
- Taste, season to perfection with sea salt and black pepper, and tear in most of the basil leaves.
- Cut the fish into four equal-sized pieces and place in the pan, pushing them into the rice.
- Scatter over the dressed tomatoes. Put the lid back on and boil for 10 minutes, or until the rice is cooked through, then remove the lid and cook for a further 2 minutes until all the liquid has evaporated.
- Spoon the remaining tapenade over the fish, pick over the remaining basil leaves, drizzle lightly with extra virgin olive oil, and dish up.
- Swap out the tapenade for chopped destoned olives, or you could try jarred pesto.
- Use any fresh tomatoes you’ve got – just chop ’em up and get ’em in the mix.
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