Stuff wrapped in pastry's always good, right? Not great for slimmers, though, unfortunately. As a treat for Christmas Eve I wanted to make us salmon en croute, so adapted a recipe to make it not quite Syn free, but an awful lot healthier than it would have been!
I bought a whole salmon and used one full side (skinned and boned), but you could always use smaller pieces and put them together, or make individual portions.
This is really simple - I promise - but super tasty.
Ingredients
Salmon Fillet
Filo pastry
Bag baby spinach
Bag watercress
Bag rocket
Sprig of dill
Tub low fat mascarpone
Small chilli (optional)
Few capers (optional)
Fry light
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1. Place salmon on a sheet of greaseproof paper on a baking tray.
2. Spray with fry light and rub capers into top of salmon.
3. Pre cook in oven for about 10 minutes (you want the salmon to be about half cooked; this is because filo takes less time to cook than the traditional puff or shortcrust pastry)
4. Remove the salmon from the oven and allow to cool completely.
5. Place the mascarpone, rocket, watercress and spinach leaves, chilli, salt and pepper in a bowl and blend until you get a smooth green paste. Obviously you could do this in a mixer, but I don't have one!
6. Layer the filo on to a sheet of greaseproof paper, spraying with fry light in between each layer.
7. Place the cooled salmon carefully on top of the filo layers and pour half of the green mixture over the top.
8. Carefully fold each layer of filo over the salmon to create a neat, secure parcel.
9. Carefully cut a couple of slits in the top to allow steam to escape and stop your pastry going soggy. Give a final spray of fry light and bake in centre of oven for about 15 mins until pastry is golden.
10. Warm remaining green sauce and pour over salmon en croute to serve.
I'm serving with small potatoes, asparagus, channtenay carrots and roasted tomatoes. Yum!!!
N.B I've pre prepared mine ready for tomorrow night so I'll post the final picture after baking!
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