Monday 20 August 2012

Jamie's Fish Tray Bake

Jamie's Fish Tray Bake


This is a Jamie Oliver recipe- from his book '30 Minute Meals'. It's typical Jamie, simple, rustic and packed full of flavour! It's not a very budget meal though, so one for a treat! Just a tip is make sure you use as big a tray as you can fit in your oven, and don't cover your fish skin with anything (like i did above) or it won't go crispy.

Time Taken: 20 minutes TOPS (Jamie's 30 minute meal included 3 side dishes and a dessert- but this dish alone was PLENTY- we were both full- so I did it on it's own).

2 year old friendly: He still turns his nose up at plain fish- so he got fish fingers!

Hubby and I had this on our own but we were stuffed! It would easily serve 4 with a side, like some rice, cous cous or even crusty bread!

INGREDIENTS
4 x 150g salmon fillets (I used 2 but they were massive!) scaled and pin-boned
8 large unpeeled tiger prawns (i used bannana prawns cause the shop didn't have tiger)
1 bunch asparagus
1 lemon
1 fresh red chilli (i left this out cause I don't do chilli)
a small bunch of fresh basil
1 x 30g tin of anchovies (I used a jar that was slightly bigger but only half the oil. You can leave these out if you want to)
4 cloves garlic
3-4 tomatoes (I used 8 cherry tomatoes cause regular tomatoes are very expensive right now!)
4 slices pancetta

METHOD
Turn your oven grill up to full heat.
Lay the salmon fillets and prawns in a large roasting tray.
Snap off the woody ends of the asparagus, then add the spears to the tray with a good pinch of salt and pepper.
Quarter the lemon and add it to the tray.
Finely chop the chilli (if using) and add it to the tray with the basil leaves.
Drizzle over the oil from the anchovies and tear in 4 of the fillets.
Crush in 4 unpeeled cloves of garlic and drizzle over some olive oil.
Roughly chop the tomatoes (or halve if using cherries) and add.
Arrange everything nicely in the tray so the lemons are facing up and the salmon is skin side up.
Drape the 4 slices of pancetta wherever you like.
Place the tray under the grill on the middle shelf for about 10- 12 minutes or until salmon cooked through.

1 comment:

  1. Delicious and certainly filling. Plenty for tw greedy adults. Took longer than 30 minutes but I don't move like a teenager these days

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