Cooking with Platypus - Salmon with coriander lime pistou

platypus · 13 Jul 2009 at 09:57

Sorry no photos, but I cooked this last night and the sauce was amazing, so I thought I'd share.

Ingredients
2 salmon fillets, skin on or off as desired.

Coriander lime pistou
1 cup fresh coriander
1 Lime
2 garlic cloves
1/4 cup olive oil
Large pinch of sea salt flakes

Method
Preheat a grill to 180°C (if you have a fan oven, otherwise just turn the grill on).

Finely chop the coriander and garlic. Zest the lime, and set aside. Place all the ingredients in a mortar and grind together, adding the juice of the lime. If you don't have a pestle & mortar, a bowl and the end of a knife handle works just as well.

Soak the salmon in the sauce, and then place under the grill. Drizzle the sauce over the salmon, grill lightly being careful not to over do the fish. Turn over, and drizzle more sauce over the other side.

Serve with new vegetables (potatoes, peas) as desired.

Efour · 13 Jul 2009 at 10:05

Cooking with Platypus - damn i read that and thought thats very different to the usual meat and fish.

Tefal · 13 Jul 2009 at 10:05

Do you grow coriander, as 2 cups seems an awful lot :confused:

Really want to try this but unfortunately our herb garden hasn't got coriander in it

Might buys some though, is it expensive for that much?

Really like the sound of this

when you say "soak" do you mean just rub it/cover it or marinate it for some time?

platypus · 13 Jul 2009 at 10:41

No its really cheap. Bought the fresh coriander from the grocers for 79p. 2 cups might be a bit too much thinking about it, I'm pretty sure I used less.

As for soaking, what I did was create the pistou and then turn the oven on. So just put the salmon in the bowl and turn it a few times whilst it is heating up - ~few minutes.

This is seriously the best sauce I've ever made for fish. It was amazing.

Lonewolf · 13 Jul 2009 at 10:42

I would say that this would be a rub rather than a marinade because I'm sure the lime would begin to cook the fish with it being an acid. I could be wrong!

Tefal · 13 Jul 2009 at 10:46

Cool, I'll give this a bash later in the week

The Dread Pirate · 13 Jul 2009 at 10:48

Could I use pollock instead of salmon?

platypus · 13 Jul 2009 at 10:52

You can use whatever you want, I'm only vouching for it with salmon though!

Makunouchi · 13 Jul 2009 at 11:13

I will actually be cooking this tonight, cheers

platypus · 13 Jul 2009 at 11:19

Excellent, let us know how it goes!

gillywibble · 13 Jul 2009 at 13:50

Hmm, must try this.

Tefal · 17 Jul 2009 at 16:47

How long would you say to cook it?

platypus · 17 Jul 2009 at 16:50

The Salmon? Depends on your tastes. I grilled it for 5 minutes each side.

Tefal · 17 Jul 2009 at 16:52

ok cheers mate

cheets64 · 17 Jul 2009 at 16:54

Location: Cambridge

Enough said. :cool:

platypus · 17 Jul 2009 at 16:54

About what?

Salmon is hardly a Cambridge delicacy.

Fusion · 17 Jul 2009 at 17:06

Perhaps he's implying you have a degree of sophistication (he is from Wigan, after all!).

Antar Bolaeisk · 17 Jul 2009 at 17:34

Sounds great, thanks Platypus

Tefal · 17 Jul 2009 at 18:38

Thanks for this Platypus just had it now, was absolutely delicious

platypus · 30 Jul 2009 at 10:42

Tefal said:
Thanks for this Platypus just had it now, was absolutely delicious

Awesome Alan, glad someone else enjoyed it!