Grilled Cod With Warm Bean Salad

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Grilled Cod With Warm Bean Salad

Glycemic Index Cooking made easy

Page 249

Dr. Jennie Brand-Miller, Kaye Foster-Powell, and Joanna McMillan-Price (2007)

"Glycemic Index Cooking made easy", USA, Rodale Inc., ISBN-13 978-1-59486-609-8

hardcover and ISBN-10 1-59486-609-0 hardcover

Ingredient #

Amount

Unit of Measure

Ingredient

1

2.00

cans (15.5 oz)

red kidney beans

2

1.00

cup

chicken broth

3

3.00

cloves

garlic

4

1.00

large

ripe tomatos

5

2.00

bunches

arugula

6

1.00

bunches

shallots

7

0.25

bunches

parsley (flat-leaf)

8

3.00

tbsp

lemon juice

9

0.00

to taste

salt

10

0.00

to taste

pepper

11

1.00

tbsp

olive oil

12

4.00

ounces

cod fillets

13

0.00

leaves

arugula

Preparation

1

reserve 1/2 cup of the kidney bean liquid.

2

In a bowl, mash 1/2 cup of the beans with 1/2 cup of liquid reserved.

3

Crush the garlic cloves

4

Coarsely chop the tomato.

5

Coarsely chop the arugula.

6

Finely slice the shallots.

7

Finely chop the flat-leaf parsley.

8

Place the mashed beans, chicken broth, chopped tomatoes, chopped arugula, sliced shallots, chopped parsley in a large saucepan.

9

Add the lemon juice, salt and pepper (to taste) to the saucepan.

10

Warm the bean mixture, covered, over a low heat for 10 minutes.

11

Meanwhile, preheat the grill or stove top grill pan and brush with olive oil.

12

Brush grill or grill pan with olive oil.

13

Grind black pepper over the cod fillets.

14

Cook the cod for 8 minutes, turning once.

15

Serve the warm bean salad as a bed for the cod fillets, and garnish with extra

arugula leaves.

Reviewed

Jerry Sandridge

on

8/7/2007 12:13:13 PM

I enjoyed the meal. The warm bean salad had a new and tangy taste

for me. I think it was mainly the parsley and I may have used too

much. The recipe calls for 1/4 bunch. I may have put just a bit

more than that, but the bunch was huge. Next time I make it, I will

add a tad less parsley.

The warm bean salad portion is large -- about 8 oz of beans plus

1/4 of a tomato; 1/4 bunch of arugula; etc. I froze the remaining 3

portions.

I cooked the cod the way the recipe said, but next time I will spice it

up a bit for me. Also, my cooking time was a bit longer than the 8

minutes the recipe called for. I also cooked the warm bean salad a

lot longer than the recipe said (which may account for some of the

tangy flavor that I liked so much).

All in all, I thought it was pretty good.

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