Pan fried salmon with pea and citrus crush. Fresh and lemony crushed peas with succulent salmon, a recipe good enough to impress at a dinner party.
Recipe courtesy Birds Eye
Prep and cooking time: 1 hour
Serves: 4
Skill level: Easy
Ingredients
2 tablespoons of rapeseed oil
4 x 180g Salmon fillets
4 branches of cherry tomatoes on the vine
A squeeze of lemon juice
Sea salt and black pepper
For the citrus crush:
750 g of frozen peas
Juice and rind of 2 large lemons
Sea salt and black pepper
2 tablespoons of rapeseed oil
A pinch of sugar
Method
- Preheat oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas Mark 6
- Heat a frying pan and add the rapeseed oil, seal the salmon fillets on each side and place on a baking sheet with the cherry tomatoes, drizzle over the juices from out of the frying pan along with a good squeeze of lemon juice, season well with sea salt and black pepper and roast in the oven for 8-10 minutes, until the salmon is just about cooked.
- Meanwhile, cook the peas according to pack instructions, drain and return to the pan and reserve. When the fish is cooked, drain the fish cooking juices over the peas, add the lemon rind, season with sea salt and black pepper and crush the peas with a potato masher.
- Mix the oil and lemon juice together with a pinch of sugar, sea salt and black pepper. Place the pea crush on 4 plates and top with the salmon, the vine tomatoes and drizzle with the lemon dressing.