Pan fried gurnard with lemon butter

In the spirit of trying something new (and having fish at least once a week), I picked up a few fillets of gurnard and pan fried them for dinner. Apparently, gurnards are bony and lacking in flavour and so they are usually quite cheap to buy. And indeed, at €8.90 per kilogram, they were the cheaper ones on offer at my local fishmonger. However, while bony and lean, they were still quite flavourful. But that may have to do with the knobs of butter and dashes of fresh lemon juice I used.

Pan fried gurnard with lemon butter, served with brown rice spaghetti with garlic, courgette, pesto

Ingredients

for 2

100g x 4 gurnard fillets
knobs of Kerrygold butter
fresh ground peppercorn
fresh lemon juice

120g brown rice spaghetti
3 cloves garlic
1tsp coconut oil
1 courgette, cut into sticks
home-made basil pesto