Hevva Cornish Hake in Lemon, 113g
Hevva Cornish Hake in Lemon, 113g
Hevva Cornish Hake in Lemon is a tin of hake landed in Cornish waters and canned by Hevva at Norton Barton Artisan Village in Bude. The brand takes its name from the shout a Cornish lookout once gave when a shoal of pilchards was spotted heading for shore. Hevva are on a mission to make hake - one of the most sustainable fish landed around the UK, yet still overlooked in favour of cod - a storecupboard regular again. It's kept simple here: just the fish, rapeseed oil, agave and lemon.
It's built for the kind of lunch you can put together without really cooking. Flake it through warm pasta or a potato salad with the oil from the tin doing double duty as the dressing, or pile it onto good buttered sourdough with a grinding of black pepper. It holds its own in a simple green salad too, and the lemon note means it doesn't need much else alongside it.
Why we love it:
- Canned in the UK by Hevva at Norton Barton Artisan Village in Bude
- Made with hake landed around the UK, a genuinely sustainable alternative to cod that's still underused in British kitchens
- Simple ingredients, so the fish does the talking rather than a heavy sauce
- Ready to eat straight from the tin, so it's as useful for a fast lunch as it is for cooking with
- Part of a wider push to make good quality tinned fish the norm again, rather than an afterthought
How to use:
- Flake through 150g of warm cooked pasta with a squeeze of lemon and a handful of chopped parsley, using the oil from the tin as the base of the sauce
- Pile onto hot buttered sourdough toast with black pepper and a few capers if you have them
- Fold through a potato or bean salad while the potatoes are still warm, so they take on the oil
- Stir through a green salad or slaw, using the oil from the tin as the dressing
More information:
- Hevva, small-batch tinned seafood canned at Norton Barton Artisan Village, Bude, Cornwall
- 90g tin
- Store in a cool, dry place before opening; once opened, keep any leftovers in the fridge and use within a day
- Allergens: FISH
May also contain mollusc, crustacea, tree nuts, peanuts, sesame, mustard, celery & milk - Ingredients: Hake (72.22%), rapeseed oil, agave syrup, salt, lemon oil (0.3%), herbs.