Final product || Image: Andrea Love
Words by Andrea Love
IMPRESS your friends with your refined culinary skills, and serve up a quaint plate of salmon en papillote next time you host a dinner party.
Actually, ‘en papillote’ is really just a fancy way of saying ‘fish in a bag’.
The literally translation is French for ‘in parchment’ and refers to the flexible method of steaming food while enclosed in a parcel. Moisture is trapped inside, and upon reaching the right temperature, forms a delicious swirl of steam and flavours that proceeds to cook the ingredients at a pretty rapid rate. The result is a delicate, aromatic dish with practically no cleaning up. That spells winner to me. Your dinner guests will be none the wiser, so enjoy an evening of beautiful, French-style fish, and enjoy the compliments for being really fancy.
Salmon en Papillote
Serves 2
Preparing the salmon || Image: Andrea Love
What’s inside?
2 (200g) salmon fillets, skin on
2 tbsp fresh coriander
¾ lemon, sliced
2 small chillies, sliced
2 cloves of garlic, sliced
2 spring onions, sliced
Salt and pepper to taste
2 tsp butter
2 30x30cm square of baking paper
2 30x30cm square of aluminium foil
To make:
Preheat the oven to 180°C.
Place half of your lemon slices, garlic, chilli, spring onions and coriander on each square of baking paper, with a little salt and pepper to taste. Top each with a piece of salmon and place the remaining ingredients on top of the piece. Add 1 teaspoon of butter to each parcel. Wrap up baking paper so the entire pocket is sealed and then wrap again in aluminium foil.
Bake salmon in the oven for 12-15 minutes.
Serve in the bag, or turned out, with rice or potatoes and side salad.
Notes:
You can add a variety of different ingredients to salmon en papilotte. Try:
- Lemon, dill and capers
- Julienned carrot, zucchini and spring onions, with tomatoes, lemon and olive oil
- Sliced baby bok choy and capsicum, with bean sprouts and spring onions
- Julienned fennel, leeks, carrots and snow peas, with coriander seeds, orange and vermouth
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