Stuffed Salmon Parcels With Tomato Cream Sauce

This recipe is my very own creation. Together with Salmon, mushrooms, some herb seasoning and cabbage leaves makes this quite a presentable dish that can be an entre/side dish or as a starter for a sitdown dinner/ lunch. The cream sauce brings out the flavor in the salmon, the sauce is very simple to make with ready to use ingredients from a bottle. The lemon grass paste is available in tubes in Australia ,maybe its also available in large grocery stores-if you can't get it you can leave it out

• Ready In: 50 mins
• Serves: 8
• Yields: 8 8

Ingredients

• 2 (200 g)  mid-cut salmon fillets
• 8  large  wide cabbage leaves
• 6  large white mushrooms, chopped fine
• 2  stalks  green spring onions, chopped fine
• 2  sprigs fresh basil leaves, chopped fine
• 1  medium carrot, grated
• 3  tablespoons lemon juice
•  salt & pepper
• 2  tablespoons  lemongrass paste
•  toothpick, to secure the parcels
• 4  tablespoons  any  red pasta sauce or 4  tablespoons salsa
• 3⁄4 cup half-and-half cream
• 1  dash black pepper

Directions

1. Wash the salmon fillets , add 2 tablespoons of the lemon juice and 1 teaspoon of the lemon grass paste and keep aside for 15 minutes.
2. In a microwavable bowl add the chopped mushrooms, basil, carrot , spring onion,1 teaspoon lemon grass paste and the lemon juice, season with salt and pepper.
3. Microwave for 2 minutes and set aside.
4. Wash the cabbage leaves and blanch them in hot salted water , run cold water to keep them from wilting but they should be nice and soft.
5. Carefully remove the skin from the salmon and cut into 8 pieces of same size.
6. On each cabbage leaf spread a little lemon grass paste,a small amount of the microwaved mix put a piece of salmon sprinkle little course black pepper and fold the leaf to make a neat parcel-secure with tooth picks.
7. Use a round open glass dish , spray with cooking spray and arrange the parcels . spray the parcels with the spray again.
8. Cover with a microwavable dish cover and microwave on high for 8 minutes.Remove on a serving dish or a plate-Let cool for few minutes.remove the tooth picks.
9. In a glass bowl mix the pasta sauce and cream and blend till well mixed.
10. Either pour all the sauce on the parcels if serving as a one dish or if on individual plates spoon a bit of the sauce on the plate, put one parcel , spoon sauce on the parcel. garnish with a fresh basil leaves.