Salmon onepot with vegetables
Salmon onepot
Ingredients
- 1 x 150g skinless, salmon fillet or any fish fillet
- 2 florets broccoli, sliced in half lengthwise through the stalk
- 3 cherry tomatoes halved
- 3 baby potatoes, boiled and sliced in 3
- ½ small onion, sliced
- 1 small carrot, ribboned with a peeler
- ½ tablespoon soy sauce
- 3 tablespoons water
- 1 dessertspoon oil
Method
Heat the oil in a frying pan and when hot add the onion and potatoes. Cook until golden then add the tomatoes, carrot ribbons, broccoli, soy and water. Place the salmon on top, cover with greaseproof and cook gently for about 8 minutes. When fish is firm remove greaseproof and top with the butter.
You could substitute chicken fillet – get your butcher to butterfly it.
Ginger and Scallion Butter
Ingredients
- 100g soft butter
- 2 finely chopped scallions
- 50g grated fresh ginger
Method
Blend together. Wrap in sausage shape in cling and chill. Slice onto the salmon. With what you don’t use, slice, cling and freeze.
Damson Bakewell Slice
Shortcrust Pastry
Ingredients
- 225g plain flour
- 150g butter
- 75g castor sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tablespoon ice cold water
Method
Rub the flour and butter to fine crumb consistency.
Mix in the sugar well.
Add the egg yolk and water and mix to a dough.
Wrap in cling and chill for 10 minutes.
Roll the pastry and press into a traybake tin – about 20x30 cm.
Trim the edges.
Set oven to 180oc.
Press a sheet of foil into the pastry and fill with baking beans or rice. Bake for 10 minutes and remove foil.
Frangipane
Ingredients
- 200g soft butter
- 200g castor sugar
- 100g ground almonds
- 100g self-raising flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 4 eggs
- 25g flaked almonds
- 4 tablespoons damson jam (or substitute your favourite)
Method
Place the butter, sugar, almonds, flour, baking powder and eggs in a mixing bowl and whisk until well mixed and pale.
Spoon the jam over the pastry bottom and spoon over the frangipane.
Smooth over and scatter over the almonds.
Bake for about 40 minutes. Cool and slice.
Dust with icing sugar.
Can be frozen.
