Date Night Sexy Swordfish With Sweet Red Peppers

When it comes to cooking for a date there are so many unknowns…do they eat meat? Would they like fish? Are they allergic to anything? Are you going to get your end away? I’d never go with something like salmon or prawns because there is just too high a risk that people won’t like them so the key is coming up with a safe option. This is it. Swordfish is super meaty in texture (very much like a steak) and the sweetness of the peppers are devine. Best part is you can lash most of this together in advance leaving you free to make yourself look stunning, dim the lights and crank on a bit of Barry White. Give this a lash and you might well be getting the lash yourself…

Instructions

Step 1

Everything here is super simple to get apart from the Swordfish. Most supermarkets have it now or head to a good fish monger. Fresher the better.

Step 2

Chop the shit out of the onions and the garlic. Fine as you can

Step 3

Lash them into a frying pan on a nice slow heat. Bit like riding later on the slower the better.

Step 4

While those are cooking grab the red peppers

Step 5

Slice them up as thin as you can. You only want the red flesh none of the white bits.

Step 6

Fuck them into the frying pan with the garlic and the onions. Now you want to slowly sweat these down and extract the flavour out of them. More or less the lowest setting and stew them down for about 20 minutes so as they sweeten up.

Step 7

While that is going on take the swordfish out and let it come up to room temperature. Lash a bit of salt, lots of black pepper and a good lashing of olive oil

Step 8

Grab the basil and pick the leaves away from the stalks.

Step 9

Slice the basil up as thin as you can. Don’t be shy with it either. I used pretty much the whole bag. This is where the fresh flavour of the whole dish will come from

Step 10

Your peppers should be looking something like this now. Not burning or taking on any colour but super soft, sweet and full of flavour