PAN FRIED COD FILLET WITH MEDITERRANEAN FLAVOURS	RECIPE

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This recipe for Pan fried cod fillet with Mediterranean flavours is one from Alan Spedding. Alan has featured on several TV cooking programmes as a keen amateur chef. If you want to know more read Alan's Biography page whihc was put togther a few years ago now.

2 nice fillets of fresh cod
olive oil
salt and pepper to coat

100 ml - olive oil (extra virgin if you can)
6 pieces of sundried tomato sliced roughly
1 tablespoon of capers
6 black olives roughly sliced
2 new potatoes cooked and sliced
1 fresh tomato peeled de-seeded and sliced into lozenges
handful of chopped parsley and small sprig of fresh rosemary roughly chopped
Sea salt and pepper

• Rub the cod with the oil, salt and pepper then place skin side down into a hot sauté pan for three to four minutes.

• Turn over and cook for roughly a further two minutes.

• Place in a warm oven to rest for three to four minutes.
  

• Whilst the cod is resting, prepare the sauce. Pour the olive oil into a pan, put all of the ingredients in and gently warm up, DO NOT sizzle and fry the ingredients, merely warm through to gently infuse all the wonderful flavours together.
  

• Place the cod, skin side up on your serving plate and spoon the sauce around.

Serves 2

Alan Spedding