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- From: r.gagnaux@chnet.ch (Rene Gagnaux)
- Subject: COLLECTION: Fish
- Message-ID: <59LFux4gC1@chnet.ch>
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 12:00:00 +0200
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-
- Title: Salmon with Pistou and a tomato sauce
- Categories: Fish
- Servings: 4
-
- 2 x Salmon steacks, 3 cm thick 2 x New-season onions, white
- - (3/4 in) - part only
- 36 x Basil leaves 4 x Very ripe tomatoes
- 6 x Cloves of garlic, inner 15 g Unsalted butter (1/2 oz)
- - green parts removed 1 x Sprig of fresh thyme
- 6 tb Olive oil Salt, pepper and cayenne
-
- (Saumon au pistou)
-
- Preparation
- ===========
-
- Pistou: put the basil, peeled garlic, olive oil and some salt and pepper
- into a liquidizer or food processor. Work the machine until you have a
- fairly thick puree.
-
- Sauce: slice the onions, cut the tomatoes into quarters and put them with
- the onions into a saucepan on the stove. Add 100 ml (scant 1/4 pint)
- water, cook until the tomatoes have softened to a pulp, sieve and set it
- aside.
-
- Skin the salmon and bone it. Cut each piece in two horizontally. Arrange
- the fish in an oven dish smeared with olive oil. (the oven dish needs to
- be made of a thin metal that conducts heat quickly.) Season with salt,
- pepper and cayenne, and put a dab of butter on to each piece of fish.
-
- Finishing
- =========
-
- Pre-heat the oven to 200 oC/400 oF. Leave the salmon in the oven for 2
- minutes, then take it out again. It will continue to cook while you finish
- the sauces.
-
- Reheat the tomato sauce. Season it with salt, pepper, cayenne and fresh
- thyme. Bring it briefly to the boil.
-
- The pistou can be eaten hot or cold; to heat it, whisk it while it warms
- up over a low heat.
-
- Serving
- =======
-
- Serve each piece of salmon with a little tomato sauce underneath it. Coat
- with the pistou.
-
- (From: Fredy Girardet, Cuisine spontanee, M Papermac, ISBN 0 333 40957 4)
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-