Cooking with Platypus - Stuffed Whole Salmon

[platypus]

This is a very simple dish to make, and tastes incredible. No pictures of the method sadly as I was doing a few things at once.

Ingredients

• 1 Whole Salmon
• 100g Pine Nuts
• 500g of Fresh Spinach
• 2 Cloves of Garlic
• 3 tablespoons of Pesto
• 250g Sun-dried tomatoes
• Freshly ground black pepper
• Cracked sea salt

Method
Very simple.

Preheat the oven to 200oC. Cut the head and tail off the fish and halve lengthways, or better yet get the fishmonger to do it. Lay both sides down on a light bed of pepper and salt.

Mean while, finely chop the spinach, sun-dried tomatoes and garlic. Mix the ingredients up into a paste, adding the pine nuts and pesto.

Simply brush the paste onto one side of the fish (inside, not the skin) and place the other side ontop. Tie together using string, or pin together using bamboo skewers.

Wrap the fish in foil, and bake for 15-20 minutes.

Serve with new vegetables.

Bleh at my photography.

 

[platypus]

We bought a whole salmon in the green supermarket just before Xmas for £6 and put it in the freezer, so now I know what we're having for supper this weekend!!

Let us know how it goes!

 

[platypus]

How many does it serve? Looks like there's enough there for 3 or 4, salmon is very filling. Tempted to try it.

PS: Silly question, but can you eat the skin on the salmon?

That served 6.

Jesus, could you fit much more on that plate?

My portion .