King Salmon with Sweet Pepper Sauce and Scampi Tails

  • King Salmon with Sweet Pepper Sauce and Scampi Tails

King Salmon with Sweet Pepper Sauce and Scampi Tails

Description


 
(makes 6 lunch serves)
 
INGREDIENTS

720g salmon fillets (skinless)

(cut into 6 x 120g pieces)

Sweet Pepper Sauce

Yellow and Red Pepper Salsa

12 small cooked Herbed Scampi Tails

METHOD

· Preheat oven to 200°C.

· Lightly grease a baking tray with oil and place salmon pieces onto tray.

· Place into preheated oven and cook for 6-8 minutes or till salmon is just cooked. Remove.

· To serve: Place salmon onto serving plate. Drizzle each piece of salmon with 2 tablespoons Sweet Pepper Sauce. Sprinkle with 1 heaped teaspoon Yellow and Red Pepper Salsa and garnish with 2 scampi tails.


Sweet Red Pepper Sauce

(makes 400ml)

INGREDIENTS

60g (6 tbsp) butter

1050g (6) red peppers (finely sliced)

70g (6-8) shallots (finely chopped)

flaky sea salt

white pepper

40ml (8 tsp) lemon juice

METHOD

· Place butter into a medium-sized frypan over a low heat till melted.

· Add peppers and shallots and stir well to coat in butter.

· Turn heat to very low or place pan on a simmermat over a low heat. Fold a piece of paper in half and sit it in frypan directly on top of peppers. Leave peppers to sweat over heat for 20-30 minutes or till very soft. You do not want any colouring of the peppers or shallots to occur.

· Remove peppers from heat, transfer to a blender and blend till smooth. Pass through a fine sieve.

· Add salt, white pepper and lemon juice to taste.

· Serve warm or hot with salmon.


Yellow and Red Pepper Salsa

(makes 160g)

INGREDIENTS

65g (1/2) red pepper (finely diced)

55g (1/2) yellow pepper (finely diced)

33g (3 tbsp) finely chopped red onion

15ml (1 tbsp) extra virgin olive oil

flaky sea salt

freshly ground black pepper

6 large basil leaves (thinly sliced)

METHOD

· Into a small bowl place red and yellow peppers, red onion, oil, salt and pepper.

· Just prior to service add basil and combine well.

· Serve immediately.


Herbed Scampi Tails

(serves 6)

INGREDIENTS

150g-200g (12 small) scampi tails (deveined, peeled of under-belly skin with very end of tail intact)

2 tsp finely chopped Italian parsley leaves

1/4 tsp flaky sea salt

freshly ground black pepper

15ml (1 tbsp) olive oil

METHOD

· Preheat oven to 200°C.

· Into a medium-sized bowl place scampi tails, parsley, salt, pepper and olive oil. Toss scampi to coat evenly.

· Spread scampi tails onto a low-sided baking tray with approximately 1cm space between. Place into preheated oven and cook for 2-3 minutes or till flesh is white.