Baked Salmon with Sesame Vegetables

Name: Baked Salmon with Sesame Vegetables
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 6 oz/170 g sugar snap peas, sliced diagonally (because it looks nicer); Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 3 leeks, trimmed and sliced into very fine strips; 2 carrots, peeled and sliced as finely as possible; 2 inches/5 cm fresh root ginger, pared of its skin and very finely chopped; 1 clove garlic, skinned and very finely chopped; 6 oz/170 g butter; 1 tbsp sesame oil; 1½–2 lb/675–900 g fresh salmon, filleted, boned, skinned and cut into 6 equal-sized pieces

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Claire Macdonald Cookbook

By Claire Macdonald

Published 1997

About

For this I cook the salmon in the best way I know, as taught me by John Tovey.

Ingredients

1½–2 lb/675–900 g fresh salmon, filleted, boned, skinned and cut into 6 equal-sized pieces
6 oz/<

Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free

Method

Put the pieces of salmon on a baking tray (unbuttered) and put a 1-oz/28-g piece of butter on top of each. Bake in a hot oven,