Salmon Recipes: Tray Baked Salmon With Olives

Tray Baked Salmon With Olives

Ingredients:

• 7 oz green beans
• 20 small cherry tomato
• 1 handful black olives
• 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• salt
• freshly ground black pepper
• 4 x 8 oz thick salmon, fillet, steaks, with or without skin, but definitely pin-boned
• 2 lemon
• 1 handful fresh basil
• 12 anchovy, fillets

Aioli

• 1/2 small clove garlic, peeled
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 large egg, yolk
• 1 tsp Dijon mustard
• 1 cup extra virgin olive oil, approximately
• 1 cup olive oil, approximately
• lemon, juice, to taste
• salt
• freshly ground black pepper

Cooking Procedures:

• Tail the green beans, blanch them until tender in salted, boiling water, and drain. Put in a bowl with the cherry tomatoes and the stoned olives.
• Toss in the olive oil and a pinch of salt and pepper.
• Give the salmon fillets a quick wash under the tap and pat dry with kitchen paper towels.
• Squeeze the juice of 1/2 a lemon over the fillets, on both sides, then season both sides with salt and pepper and drizzle a little olive oil over the top.
• Preheat the oven and a roasting tray at the highest temperature. Put your 4 fillets of salmon at 1 end of the roasting tray.
• Toss the basil into the green beans, olives and tomatoes and place this mixture at the other end of the tray. Lay the anchovies over the green beans.
• Roast in the preheated oven for 10 minutes, then remove from the oven and serve with lemon quarters.
• This is very tasty with some homemade mayonnaise or aioli. (See Aioli recipe)

Aioli

• Smash up the garlic with the salt in a mortar and pestle (if you don't have a mortar and pestle you can very finely chop the garlic).
• Place the egg yolk and mustard in a bowl and whisk. Then start to add your olive oil bit by bit. Once you've blended in a half cup of the olive oil you can start to add the rest in larger amounts.
• When you've added it all, you can add the garlic and lemon (to taste) and any extra flavours such as basil, fennel tops, dill, chopped roast nuts.
• To finish just season to taste with salt, freshly ground black pepper and lemon juice.