Miss Pixie's Salmon, Spinach & Mozzarella in Pastry
"This can be served hot or cold, and is a traditional new zealand recipe"
- Ready In:
- 1hr 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
-
12-16
ingredients
- 1 1⁄4 kg skinned and boned fresh salmon, 1 side
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt & freshly ground black pepper
- 500 g spinach
- 100 g fresh mozzarella cheese or 100 g bocconcini
- 200 g fresh ricotta cheese
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 2 tablespoons chopped spring onions
- 2 tablespoons chopped chives
- 1 egg
- 800 g puff pastry
- 1 egg, for glazing
directions
- Season the salmon with salt and pepper, and cut into 2 pieces down the middle lengthwise. Set aside.
- Wash the spinach carefully to release any dirt, then cook in a small amount of salted water until it wilts.
- Refresh under cold water; drain thoroughly. Chop very finely and place in a mixing bowl.
- Chop the mozzarella into tiny pieces and add to the spinach with the ricotta, salt and pepper, nutmeg, spring onion and chives.
- Mix well and add the beaten egg.
- Roll out half the pastry into a rectangle about 6cm larger than the salmon, on all sides. Place this on a baking sheet.
- Spread half the spinach and cheese mixture in the centre of the pastry, so that it covers about two-thirds of the area, leaving a strip of about 6cm on all sides.
- Place the salmon in the centre, side by side, topping and tailing the two pieces so that the shape of the salmon roughly equates to an oblong.
- Sprinkle over extra salt and pepper.
- Carefully spread the remaining spinach and cheese mixture over the salmon.
- Roll out the remaining pastry, and place this on top, pulling the extra pastry from the base up, brushed with the extra beaten egg.
- Seal the top piece of pastry to the base with egg so it will remain closed and form a neat parcel.
- Use any trimmings to decorate the top.
- Completely brush the parcel with the remaining egg.
- Return to the refrigerator for at least half an hour.
- Bake at 200 degrees for about 15 minutes until the pastry is crisp and golden, and the salmon is cooked.
- serve hot or cold.
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I lived in new zealand for 8 years of my life, now england for the past 8 years. I go to boarding school on the east coast of england. I have friends from all over the world, my best friend is canadian and also lived in france, so her mum and her for that fact, are mean chefs, boy do i like going to her house.
I recently found out I am intollerant to wheat so have found it difficult to give up such easy foods to find and now have to search harder. I also have 2 leaks in my heart, one on a valve going in and one on a valve going out. A top carteoligist from London told me as long as I don't get pregnant for a while (I should hope not, I'm only 15) or eat fatty foods, my heart would do allright. He said he didn't want to operate on me yet, beacause there is a operation coming in the next 10 years which is lazer, so he wants me to wait, but he said I was fit and healthy and had no need to worry, yet.......
when i was younger i dreamed of being a choreographer or a marine biolagist, then i wanted to work for vouge magazine, then get married and move to barbados and raise a family where the only thing that passes anyones lips will be home grown or hand made, a bit ambitious i know, hehe. But now my dream is to be a laywer and help others that really need it, and hopefully move back to my roots and bring up a family there
For lent i have given up refined sugars and it is so hard and i am only 3 days into it, i was starving at school, opened my tuk box only to find marshmallows and smarties and a box of cereal, i think cereal is about to become my best friend over the next 6 weeks. LOL
EDITED 30TH AUGUST; Last night at 3:30am, my best friend lost her battle to cancer and it has made me realise how important it is to live life to the full and take every opportunity thrown at us. She was a special girl and only 15 - wherever she is now though, she is out of her suffering. I have no doubt that she went straight to heaven. Lord rest your soul.
i also have a lot of favourite sayings, here are some of them
"shoot for the moon, even if you don't make it, you'll land amoung the stars"
"I'm on a seafood diet, see food and eat it"
"smiling is infectious, you catch it like the flu, when someone smiled at me today, i started smiling too, i passed around the corner and someone saw me grin, when he smiled i realised, i'd passed it on to him. I thought about that smile, then i realised it's worth, a single smile just like mine could pass around the earth. So if you feel a smile begin, don't leave undetected. Lets start an epedemic quick, and get the world infected!!!"
