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Thought I'd share what we had for dinner last night - it was a huge hit with DW!
Salmon with lemon pasta and broccoli
I bought two really nice pieces of organic salmon for this. I used the chunkier fillets from the middle of the fish. The rest of the ingredients was:
Linguine (or spag or any other thin pasta).
A lemon
A red chilli
A clove of garlic
EVOO
Broccoli spears
Here's how I've taken to cooking salmon recently - it works great and lets you get on with the rest of the meal while it's doing it's thing:
Pre-heat your oven on to the hottest it can get as well as a non-stick frying pan stupidly hot on the stove top. Add a splash of oil to the pan, season the salmon both sides and sear skin side UP for a minute. Turn the salmon over in the pan and put straight into the oven.
Obviously you need a frying pan with a metal handle that can survive in the oven - if not just transfer it to an oven tray.
Turn the oven down to very low. That's it - the fish should take about 10 mins to cook and comes out really moist and perfectly cooked.
Cook your pasta (I used fresh so it only took 2 mins) and in another frying pan, gently cook the garlic and chilli for a couple of minutes in some OVOO. Do not let this burn or brown!
Add the pasta to the chilli / garlic / oil, squeeze the juice of the lemon all over and mix up very well.
Cook your broccoli (I used the pasta water) for a couple of minutes until just done. The broccoli can be decorated with the zest of the lemon if you like.
That's it!
There's an optional ingredient which many may think just won't go with this particular recipe, but I can't have salmon without a small splash of Soy Sauce on the fish. It just makes the meal!!
Salmon with lemon pasta and broccoli
I bought two really nice pieces of organic salmon for this. I used the chunkier fillets from the middle of the fish. The rest of the ingredients was:
Linguine (or spag or any other thin pasta).
A lemon
A red chilli
A clove of garlic
EVOO
Broccoli spears
Here's how I've taken to cooking salmon recently - it works great and lets you get on with the rest of the meal while it's doing it's thing:
Pre-heat your oven on to the hottest it can get as well as a non-stick frying pan stupidly hot on the stove top. Add a splash of oil to the pan, season the salmon both sides and sear skin side UP for a minute. Turn the salmon over in the pan and put straight into the oven.
Obviously you need a frying pan with a metal handle that can survive in the oven - if not just transfer it to an oven tray.
Turn the oven down to very low. That's it - the fish should take about 10 mins to cook and comes out really moist and perfectly cooked.
Cook your pasta (I used fresh so it only took 2 mins) and in another frying pan, gently cook the garlic and chilli for a couple of minutes in some OVOO. Do not let this burn or brown!
Add the pasta to the chilli / garlic / oil, squeeze the juice of the lemon all over and mix up very well.
Cook your broccoli (I used the pasta water) for a couple of minutes until just done. The broccoli can be decorated with the zest of the lemon if you like.
That's it!
There's an optional ingredient which many may think just won't go with this particular recipe, but I can't have salmon without a small splash of Soy Sauce on the fish. It just makes the meal!!