Local Salmon and Cream Cheese in Puff Pastry with Veg and a Lemon and Honey Drizzle- Day 4 - 04/01/12

Back to the student life today so do not have the luxury of my parents kitchen and utensils (especially the microwave steamer). Needed a quick meal as we Jace and I were v.hungry (as usual). The salmon in this recipe was freshly frozen fillets frozen earlier in the year - caught by my dad and de-boned by my mum.

Also forgot to mention that all the recipes so far and including todays have not come from pre made recipes and have been made up on the spot. So if you think anything is a strange combination this is why. 

Recipe for 2

Ingredients

• Salmon (2 fillets)
• Cream Cheese (1/3 a tub)
• Pre Rolled Puff Pastry
• Lemon
• Carrots (2)
• New Potatoes (6)
• Honey (3tbs)
• Milk

Method

1. Pre heat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
2. Roll out the puff pastry and place the salmon on top (cut enough puff pastry around each salmon piece as if it were present you need to wrap).
3. Take the cream cheese and squeeze the top cm of the lemon and mix.
4. Spread the cream cheese onto the salmon (1cm thick).
5. Wrap up the salmon with the puff pastry trying to make sure there is no gaps.
6. Pierce the top of your salmon parcel with a fork a few times.
7. Brush milk over the puff pastry parcel.
8. Place the parcel in the oven.
9. Cut the carrots and potatoes into inch cube sizes and put on to steam/boil.
10. Mix the honey and rest of the lemon juice with a touch of hot water to make the drizzle.
11. Once ready split onto 2 plates, put a small amount of the drizzle over your veg and serve.

Photographs

Salmon and Cream Cheese on the Puff Pastry Sheet

Once the salmon has been wrapped in pastry

The Final Dish

The salmon parcel on the inside

This recipe was the fastest to make yet, the salmon parcels with moist and extremely tasty. I found the drizzle had too much honey but Jace liked it so I suppose it depends on your pallet. Would add a few more different types of veg and maybe bake them with the drizzle instead of steam.

Ease of Recipe:   (9/10)
Taste:                (8/10)
Look:                 (6/10)

Overall:              (23/30)

Enjoyed the meal and liked the fact that it was local salmon, I think Jace's best bit was his brew dog beer to wash it down with (only joking).

P.S. this took me an hour and a bit to write due to Jace's laptop being on the brink of dying. His mouse pad was going mad and zooming in and out ahhh! Thank goodness that's out of the way. :)

Laura xo