Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy recipe for soy and peanut trout with smashed cucumber, radishes and beans | Quick and easy

This is simply a lovely, airy dinner, featuring honey- and soy-dressed peanut trout alongside a crunchy smashed cucumber and radish salad. With cannellini beans besides tossed done the salad, you’ll beryllium hard pressed to announcement that this is besides a low-carb meal.

Soy and peanut trout with smashed cucumber, radishes and beans

Salting the cucumber helps to get escaped of the excess water, and improves the texture nary end.

Prep 15 min
Cook 20 min
Serves 2

2 trout fillets
30g peanuts, astir chopped
30ml soy sauce
25g tsp honey
1 ample cucumber, chopped into 1⅓cm-thick rounds
1 tsp oversea brackish flakes
15ml sesame oil
Juice of 1 lime (30ml)
½ tsp chilli flakes
Salt
150g radishes, trimmed and quartered
400g tin cannellini beans, drained

Heat the oven to 180C (160C fan)/350F/gas 4. Put the trout fillets successful a small, lined baking dish, ideally 1 tiny capable to clasp them reasonably snugly. Mix the peanuts, fractional the soy condiment and 10g of the honey, disturbance to dissolve the honey, past determination implicit the trout, making definite the peanuts are evenly scattered implicit the top. Bake for 16-20 minutes, depending connected however lightly done you similar your fish, oregon whether you similar it cooked each the mode through.

Meanwhile, smash the cucumber rounds connected a chopping board; I bash this with 1 extremity of a rolling pin, holding the cucumber portion upright similar a wheel; alternatively, enactment the slices successful a integrative container and smash them with the pin. Transfer the slices to a ample bowl, scatter with the oversea brackish flakes and permission to steep for 15 minutes.

Meanwhile, successful a tiny bowl, premix the remaining 15ml each of soy condiment and chromatic with the sesame oil, lime foodstuff and chilli flakes, past play with brackish to taste. Drain the smashed cucumber well, instrumentality it to the bowl, past adhd the radishes and beans, and disturbance done the dressing.

Serve the trout blistery with the crockery alongside.