Salmon in Red Wine

Name: Salmon in Red Wine
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 tbsp olive oil; 1 red onion, chopped; 50 g butter; l00 g mushrooms, sliced; 1 clove of garlic, crushed, peeled and chopped; 30 g flour; 1 bottle red Burgundy; freshly ground black pepper; 6 x 150 g salmon fillets (skin left on); sea salt

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
30 min

Appears in

The French Kitchen

By Joanne Harris and Fran Warde

Published 2002

About

This unusual combination – Saumon au Vin Rouge – makes for a rich, earthy dish, excellent with pasta (serve it for example on piles of ribbon pasta) or rice.

Ingredients

50 g butter
1 tbsp olive oil
1 red onion

Europe
France
Fish course
Pescatarian
Mediterranean
Gluten-free

Method

Melt the butter with the olive oil in a big, wide saucepan, add the onion, garlic and mushrooms and sauté gently for 10 minutes.

Sprinkle in the flour and mix well until it has absorbed the oil and butter, then gradually add the red wine and mix until smooth. Season. Bring to the boil. Add the salmon fillets to the pan and spoon the red wine over them to stain them evenly. Cover, then s