Kitty Coles’ recipes for lemon- and oil-poached fish and cucumber and yoghurt salad

Kitty Coles’ olive oil- and lemon-poached fish with grated courgette salad. Photograph: Ola O Smit/The Guardian. Food and prop styling: Kitty Coles. Food styling assistant: Megan Lambert.

There’s something quietly luxurious about gently poaching fish in good olive oil and lemon. It’s the sort of cooking that feels generous but effortless; everything simmers away in one big pan, and produces a sauce that’s rich and thick from the potato starch but lemony and fresh-tasting, too. I also often find myself craving an entire cucumber for lunch, so I love today’s salad for its simplicity and for its big flavours. I really enjoy writing recipes that I believe people will come back to again and again, and I think this is definitely one of those.

Olive oil and lemon-poached fish with grated courgette salad (pictured top)