Skip to content
Main course · Lebanese

Tajen Samak (Hake Baked in Tahini with Caramelised Onions)

45 min Serves 4 ~834 kcal/serving ~£13.80 (£3.45/serving) Contains-nutsDairy-freeGluten-freePescatarian

Dietary and allergen labels, nutrition and cost are worked out automatically from each recipe’s ingredients and are a guide only. Check the labels on what you buy yourself — especially for allergies or coeliac disease. More about recipe labels.

Add to my meal plan How meal planning works

Opens Equal House and puts it on the night you choose. No app yet? It’s free, and the recipe comes with you when you install it.

Ingredients

  • 600 g hake fillets
  • 1 tsp ground cumin
  • 4 tbsp olive oil
  • 4 onion
  • 8 tbsp tahini
  • 3 lemon
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 30 g pine nuts
  • 300 g basmati rice
  • 15 g fresh flat-leaf parsley

Nutrition (per serving)

Calories
834 kcal
Protein
40.9 g
Carbohydrate
77.3 g
of which sugars
10.8 g
Fat
39.1 g
of which saturates
5.3 g
Fibre
10.1 g
Salt
0.39 g

Estimated from typical values for each ingredient — a guide, not a substitute for the label on what you actually buy.

Method

  1. 1

    Heat the oven to 200C (180C fan, gas 6). Season the hake fillets with the cumin and a pinch of salt, lay them in an oiled baking dish and bake for 10 minutes.

  2. 2

    Meanwhile, halve and thinly slice the onions and fry in 3 tbsp olive oil over a medium heat for 20 minutes, stirring now and then, until soft, sweet and golden brown.

  3. 3

    Whisk the tahini with the juice of 2 lemons, the crushed garlic and ½ tsp salt, then whisk in about 150ml water, a little at a time, until it is a smooth, pourable cream; it will thicken before it loosens.

  4. 4

    Stir the tahini sauce into the onions and simmer for 2-3 minutes until thickened. Pour over the fish and bake for 10-12 minutes until bubbling and the fish is opaque and flakes easily.

  5. 5

    While it bakes, toast the pine nuts in a dry pan for 2-3 minutes and cook the rinsed basmati rice in 600ml boiling water with 1 tsp salt, covered, on the lowest heat for 12 minutes, then leave covered off the heat for 5 minutes.

  6. 6

    Scatter the fish with the pine nuts and chopped parsley and serve straight away with the rice and the last lemon in wedges.

Equal House

Plan your meals — and share the cooking

Equal House builds your shopping list by aisle, times the cooking for dinner, and shares it out fairly. Free to start.

Free to start on your iPhone Free to start on your Android phone Free to start · No ads · Your family's data stays yours.