Master Sous Chef presents:
GreItaSco (Greek honey, Italian wine and Scottish salmon)
- Music list:
- Music artist: Morcheeba
- Album: Parts Of The Process
This is my first fish dish and, of course, the expectations are very high!
I just came back from the supermarket and I bought salmon fillets, rocket salad and… that’s it!
Mmm… How can I make my salmon tasty, yummy and appealing?
Very simple, my friends… very simple.
I opened the cupboard and I found one of the many jars containing Greek honey (yes, my wife is officially the biggest Greek honey smuggler in the UK! She keeps bringing tons!)
If you do not know, by the way, Greek honey is the best (or at least is what Greeks say…).
Honestly, the honey is quite something and if you have ever been in Greeceland, you must have tried some yogurt with honey, simply divine!
Honey can be too sweet for my taste though to be very honest, so I had the idea of melting it in a pan with some wine… The experiment was very successful.
I simply baked the salmon in the oven and then poured the sauce of wine and honey over it and the rocket salad really made a difference in giving the dish some crunchiness and balance.
I am very pleased with this new creation, its simple, delicious and very impressive. The overall preparation took only 15 minutes!
If you are inviting guests for dinner and you are running out of time… there you go! (Also very good if you are not very excited about your guests… and you do not want to put too much effort!)
The results are very good… Trust me, I tried in both situations and it works! Ha!
- Ingredients:
- Salmon
- 2 full teaspoons of Greek honey
- ¾ of a glass of red wine
- Rocket salad
- Salt, Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Estimated Cooking time:
15 minutes
- Preparations:
1) Wrap the oven tray with some film and place the salmon fillets. Put in oven at 180 C for 8 minutes. (Do not cook your salmon over 10 minutes or it will loose all its moisture)
2) Pour the red wine in a pan. Add the honey. Stir until melted for at least 5 minutes. Make sure that the sauce it’s not too runny. It should cook on medium fire.
3) Remove the salmon from the oven and let it rest for 2 minutes.
4) Place some rocket salad on the bottom of the plate, sprinkle some salt and pour 2 tiny drops of olive oil.
5) Place the salmon fillets above the rocket. Add sea salt and olive oil. Pour sauce over the salmon.
6) Serve and enjoy
- WIFE’S MARKS:
- Flavour: 9/10 – The salmon was cooked to perfection, melting in the mouth! The sweetness of the sauce was balancing out the strong flavour of the salmon. The rocket was perfectly complementing the greasiness of the salmon. Very tasty !!!!
- Ctrativity: 9/10 – Beautifully presented. Fairly simple ingredients once again proved that sometimes …..less is more !
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