Salmon Recipe With Basil Sauce, Leek, Asparagus And Tomatoes

If you don’t know how to cook salmon, you definitely have to learn the secret. Salmon makes a great dish and it can be cooked in so many ways that cooking almost becomes an art. The best salmon recipe I’ve ever tasted was a smoked salmon one, but I’ve also eaten good grilled salmon. I’m not even mentioning here the salmon caviar which is absolutely delicious.

I’m giving you here a salmon recipe for the main dish, tasty, easy to prepare and also easy to digest.

Ingredients for two persons

• 600 g. salmon
• 400 g. asparagus
• 300 g. tomatoes
• 100 g. leek
• 40 ml. balsamic vinegar
• 50 g. rucola
• 20 g. fresh basil
• 10 g. fresh mint
• salt, pepper

The basil sauce:

• 80 ml. oil
• 400 g. sour cream
• 1 lemon
• 120g. butter
• 1 orange for decoration

Salmon Cooking Procedure

1. Put the salmon in the oven, at medium temperature, for 20 min.
2. Turn it on both sides.
3. Fry the tomatoes. Peel them off and cut them in thin blades. Leave part of them for the salad.
4. Cut the leek on its length in thin slices. Leave part of it for the salad.
5. Add the tomatoes and the leek with the salmon.
6. Put it in the oven for 15 min.
7. Blend the asparagus.

For the basil sauce:

1. Melt the butter.
2. Add the cream and the lemon juice. Stir.
3. Leave it to diminish for 5 min.
4. Cut the basil.
5. Add salt, pepper and the basil.

For the salad:

1. Cut the rucola, the mint and the basil.
2. Mix the up the slices of the tomatoes and the leek.
3. Add balsam vinegar.

On a plate put:

• The asparagus.
• On top the salmon.
• On top the sauce and the salad.
• The slices of orange, round about.

I hope you’ll manage to prepare such easy salmon recipes in very little time, for your guests’ pleasure. I’ve heard that there are chefs who cook some extraordinary salmon cakes, but I very much doubt I’d like to try cooking salmon that way. I’ll stick to smoked salmon for now.

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