Salmon Papillotes With Fennel, Potatoes, and Olives

Submitted by susie cooks

"Recipe from Gourmet Magazine"

 

• Ready In: 55mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 1 small fennel bulb, stalks discarded
• 3 medium carrots (1/2 pound)
• 226.79 g small red potato
• 118.29 ml kalamata olive, slivered
• 9.85 ml finely grated fresh lemon zest
• 19.71 ml fresh thyme leaves
• 2 clove garlic, minced
• 44.37 ml extra virgin olive oil
• salt & freshly ground black pepper
• 680.38 g center-cut salmon fillets, skinned and fish cut into 4 square pieces
• 113.39 g butter, quartered evenly
• 1 lemon, juice of

directions

1. Special equipment: a mandoline or other manual slicer, 4 pieces parchment paper, kitchen string Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Halve fennel bulb lengthwise.
3. Remove most of core, leaving enough intact to keep layers together when sliced.
4. Using manual slicer, cut fennel bulb (lengthwise), carrots (diagonally), and potatoes into 1/8-inch-thick slices, keeping vegetables separate.
5. Blanch vegetables, separately, in salted boiling water: fennel 2 minutes, carrots 1 minute, potatoes 2 minutes.
6. Transfer fennel and carrots with a slotted spoon to a bowl of ice water then drain well.
7. Drain potatoes.
8. Toss fennel and carrots with olives, zest, thyme, half of garlic, 2 tablespoons olive oil, and salt and pepper, to taste.
9. Toss potatoes with remaining oil and garlic and salt and pepper, to taste.
10. Fold the parchment paper in half along the longest side.
11. Divide potato mixture among centers of parchment squares.
12. Season salmon with salt and pepper and place on top of potatoes, then top salmon the fennel mixture.
13. Add a pat of butter to the package and a squeeze of lemon juice.
14. Fold the parchment paper up over fennel mixture and crimp the edges.
15. Place packages directly on hot baking sheet in oven and cook 20 minutes.
16. Serve immediately.

Reviews

[spatchcock]

Since DH and I don't eat poultry, we made this for Thanksgiving dinner. Excellent flavor. I followed the recipe as writen, except that I, like the previous reviewer, also did my slicing by hand. I will be making this again. Thanks for posting!

 

[kathryn.b]

simple, light meal. I had no mandoline so I hand cut everything. It came out great though slightly more time consuming. Also, I had no oilves in house so I substitued capers and was satisfied.