We have been making a lot of recipes from Giada at Home by Giada di Laurentiis since getting it for Christmas, but tonight we went back to an old favorite; Jacques Pepin's Oven-baked Salmon with sun-dried tomato and salsa mayonnaise. The recipe is on page 118-119 of Fast Food My Way (Houghton Mifflin, 2004). Pepin is one of my culinary heroes, and this book is full of easy to prepare meals that we come back to time after time.
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| 2 pound Salmon filet, oiled and seasoned |
Everyone in my family loves salmon, and we generally make it one of three ways - on the grill with a hoisin glaze, grilled (plain) with a tomato, green onion and caper relish, or this way. Given that we got another 3 inches of snow between 10am and 3pm today, and that there is now well over a foot of accumulated snow between me and the grill....
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| Macadamia and bread crumbs |
Pepin's recipe coats a (large) salmon filet with a macadamia nut breading and then bakes it in the oven (we go very heavy on the breading). While it is baking, a sun-dried tomato salsa mayonnaise is made using simple store-bought ingredients that combine to make a fantastic sauce to accompany the fish.
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| Ready for the oven |
We served it tonight with an olive oil and roasted garlic couscous and garlic wilted spinach. And a Jacob's Creek 2012 Adelaide Hills reserve Chardonnay. Jacob's Creek is a huge output wine factory, but a good quality one, and this particular Chardonnay is an excellent value.
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| Done... |
Pepin is a brilliant chef (his Techniques book is a chef-wanna-be must have), and this is a fantastic recipe that requires almost no prep, no fuss, has a very short cooking time, and creates a special occasion worthy end result.
So that was what was for dinner...
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