Salmon With Pesto Crust

Submitted by ChefDebs

"My Dads fiancee gave this recipe to me when we were visiting in England recently. I cooked this the other day using wild alaskan salmon(found in Walmart,can you believe!) And it was superb,I made my own pesto as my garden is full of basil. Also I cant buy creme fraiche locally so I made my own by adding lemon juice to heavy cream until thickened."

 

• Ready In: 25mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 1 cup fresh breadcrumb
• 1 lemon, juice and rind of
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 4 tablespoons pesto sauce
• 4 salmon fillets

• FOR the lemon sauce

• 2 ounces butter
• 1 lemon, juice and rind of
• 1 cup creme fraiche

directions

1. Mix the breadcrumbs, lemon rind, oil and pesto. Add the lemon juice. Remove the skin from the salmon, press on the crumbs and put on a greased baking tray and bake in a 400* oven for 15 mins or until salmon is cooked through.
2. Sauce --
3. Melt butter and whisk in the lemon juice, rind and creme fraiche.Pour the sauce on to plates and top with fish .

Reviews

[Tiippo iippo]

This was very good definetly will do again. Tho my crust got alittle burned. gf loved this. i did marinate the fish for 3 hours with lemon, olive oil,bredcrumbs and pesto. Didnt use the rind coz my lemons werent organic.

 

[Caroline Cooks]

Very good! Just topped the salmon with the pesto mixture. Served the lemon sauce on the side.

 

[Dr. Carrie]

The crust was excellent - I didn't make the sauce but the crust topping was a definite keeper! I didnt have any lemons so used just a bit of lemon juice and some salt.

 

[Ducky]

Love it! This is so simple and does make a nice crust on the salmon. I made a 1/2 recipe as there were only 2 of us. I did think there was too much lemon sauce. I would use a touch less lemon next time as it has somewhat of a predominant flavor. This was made for Pick-A-Chef spring 2006.