Escalopes of Fresh Salmon Marinated with Basil

Name: Escalopes of Fresh Salmon Marinated with Basil (Escalopes de saumon frais, mariné à I’huile de basilic)
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: For two people
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: fine salt, freshly-ground white pepper; juice of one-and-a-half lemons; 1 tablespoon chopped parsley; 10 handsome leaves of basil or 1 teaspoon chopped dill (or you can omit the herbs altogether and serve the salmon ‘au nature’); 5 tablespoons olive oil; 300–400 g (10½–14½ oz) very fresh tail-cut of salmon; 200 g (7 oz) fresh white button mushrooms

Escalopes de saumon frais, mariné à I’huile de basilic

Preparation info

For
two
people

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
20 min

Appears in

Cuisine of the Sun

By Roger Vergé

Published 1979

About

Ingredients

300–400 g (10½–14½ oz) very fresh tail-cut of salmon
200 g (7 <

Europe
France
Fish course
Pescatarian
Mediterranean
Gluten-free

Method

Ask your fishmonger to fillet a tail cut of salmon weighing 300–400 g. If he won’t, scale the tail yourself and remove the fillets, cutting through the skin down either side of the backbone and then repeating on the stomach side. Remove any little bones from the base of the