Salmon Fillet with Honey, Orange and Ginger

This quick and easy salmon recipe is sweet with the honey, while the orange and ginger accompanies the fish delightfully.

Serve this dish with a plateful of salad, or some new baby potatoes and steam vegetables for a meal that takes 30 minutes to complete from start to finish.

Serves 2

Ingredients

2 fresh salmon fillets
1 tbsp of honey
juice of 1 orange
2 tsp of grated ginger
a handful of chopped fresh coriander
sprinkle of salt and freshly cracked black pepper

Method

1. Turn on the oven and heat at 200 degrees.
   
2. Place tin foil on a baking tray and lay on the two salmon fillets. Turn up the foil so that it can hold a small amount of liquid.
   
3. Now grate the ginger root and squeeze the juice from the orange.
   
4. Mix together with the honey to form a paste and pour over the salmon fillets.
   
5. The paste will fall off, so wrap up the tin foil around the sides of the fillets.
   
6. Sprinkle on the chopped coriander and place in the oven for 20 to 25 minutes depending on how well done you like your salmon.
   

To improve the above recipe you should marinate the salmon fixture in the mixture for at least a few hours.

Yeah this blog needed some pictures - so here is a salmon fillet :)

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Thai coconut fish and noodle soup recipe

I used swordfish loins in this tasty easy-to-make soup, but try tilapia or your fish of choice and you'll still get great results.

Serves three as a main.

Ingredients:

2 swordfish loins
100g of egg fried noodles
1 litre of fish stock
1 sachet of creamed coconut
1 onion
1 leek
2 sticks of lemon grass (broken and crushed)
3 spring onions
an inch of ginger (crushed)
fresh coriander
freshly cracked pepper
salt to taste

Method:


Heat some oil in a saucepan and fry the chopped onion, ginger and lemon grass for five minutes. Add the fish stock and sliced leek and simmer for ten minutes.
Place the contents of the sachet of creamed coconut and mix until dissolved.
Add half the coriander and two chopped spring onions, cracked black pepper and taste the soup, now add salt if desired.
Place the swordfish loins and noodles into the simmering soup and cook for five minutes.
Test the fish is cooked and then remove the ginger and lemon grass and serve. Sprinkle the remainder coriander and spring onion in the bowls.

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Luxury Fish Pie

Ingredient:

Fish and Sauce:

Two salmon fillets

One cod loin

100g cooked prawns

75g butter

75g plain flour

500ml fish stock

200ml milk

50ml cream

1 glass of white wine

1 carrot

1 leek

1 medium onion

1 bayleef

handful of fresh parsley

5 peppercorns

salt and pepper (to taste)

splash of lemon juice

50g red leicester cheese (grated)

Mashed potato:

Six medium potatoes

Two sweet potatoes

50ml milk

25g butter

25ml cream

50g red leicester cheese (grated)

Topping:

50g red leicester cheese (finely grated)

50g breadcrumbs

Method:

This meal sounds like a lot of effort given the ingredient list above, but it is simple and can be prepared in 45 minutes - plus another 25 minutes of oven cooking time. It is well worth the effort too.

Start off by preparing the potatoes by pealing them all and chopping them into quarters. Add them to salted water and bring to the boil and then simmer for 20 minutes. Once cooked strain the water, add the small amounts of butter, milk and cheese and mash.

Meanwhile, add the chopped onion, leek, carrot, peppercorns and bay leaf to the fish stock and bring to the boil and then simmer for ten minutes.

Place the salmon and cod to the stock and continue to simmer for three minutes.

Take out the fish and set aside to cool

Strain the stock with a sieve, then return to the boil and then simmer and add the wine.

Melt the butter and then mix with the flour and return to the heat for a minute. Slowly add the stock while continually mixing and then add the milk, cheese, parsley and flour. Add salt and white pepper to taste.

Now put the meal together by placing the prawns, and fish in a dish along with salt, pepper and lemon juice. Mix around so the fish breaks into pieces.

Pour over the sauce and sprinkle over some extra grated cheese and cracked black pepper before layering on the mashed potato.

Smooth the dish before adding a mixture of grated cheese and breadcrumbs.

Return to the oven at 200degrees for at least 25 minutes, or until the breadcrumbs become crispy.

Serve with vegetables and garlic bread and enjoy.

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