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Salmon en Croute

Looking for new dinner ideas using salmon? This Salmon en croute recipe makes an impressive fine dining course for dinner parties. Half side of salmon topped with a mushroom, cream cheese and spinach filling before being encased in puff pastry and oven-baked to perfection! We show you how to cook this crowd-pleaser recipe, perfect for a family meal or an alternative Christmas main course.
Prep Time20 mins
Active Time30 mins
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: British, French
Keyword: Christmas, fine dining, party recipe, puff pastry, salmon, salmon en croute, Seafood
Yield: 8 people
Calories: 774kcal

Materials

Spinach filling

  • 70 grams (⅓ cup) unsalted butter
  • 2 Shallots chopped
  • 100 grams (1 cup) mushrooms we used chanterelle
  • 3 tsp Gia garlic puree or 5 garlic cloves
  • 220 grams Fresh Spinach
  • 1 tsp black pepper
  • sprinkle Salt
  • 70 grams (¾ cup) Breadcrumbs
  • 200 grams (4oz) Creamcheese
  • 10 grams fresh dill chopped

Salmon and Pastry

  • 700 g (1 ½ lb) half salmon side skin removed
  • 2 packs ready rolled puff pastry
  • 1 egg whisked

Instructions

Cook the spinach filling first

  • In a pan melt the butter over medium heat. Add the Mushrooms, Shallots and garlic, fry until shallots are softened.
  • Add spinach, black pepper & salt, cook until spinach has wilted.
    Spinach added to the mushrooms and onions cooking in a black pan
  • Add the cream cheese, breadcrumbs and chopped dill stir together, remove from the heat and place to one side.
    Cream cheese mixed in with the mushrooms, spinach and onions

Salmon en croute

  • Preheat the oven 180°c Fan /200° C /400° F /gas mark 6
    Lay parchment paper on a baking tray. Place 1 pack of puff pastry onto the parchment paper
    Place the salmon side in the centre of the puff pastry sheet,
    Placing a salmon fillet onto a puff pastry sheet by hands
  • Spread the spinach filling on top of the salmon fillet.
    cream cheese filling placed on top of the salmon
  • Place the second sheet of puff pastry over the top of the salmon and spinach, press the pastry down around the edges.
    Tuck the corners away to make it look more like a parcel.
    Placing puff pastry top over the salmon and cream cheese filling to make a parcel
  • Cut away any excess pastry, fold the edges of the first sheet of pastry up to meet the second.
    Use a fork to seal the two sheets together all around the edges.
    Crimping the edges of the salmon en croute with a silver fork
  • With a sharp knife score the top of the parcel with a criss-cross pattern, try not to cut too deep.
    Scoring the puff pastry parcel with knife
  • Optional, with the leftover pastry, you can make decorations for the parcel, we made little fish.
    Coat all over the pastry with the whisked egg.
    Coating the salmon en croute with egg wash by hand with a black brush
  • Bake in the oven for 30 mins.
    Salmon en croute with pastry fish decorations on top coated in egg to be placed in the oven
  • Enjoy!!

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Nutrition

Calories: 774kcal | Carbohydrates: 47g | Protein: 28g | Fat: 53g | Saturated Fat: 18g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 115mg | Sodium: 415mg | Potassium: 794mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 3297IU | Vitamin C: 10mg | Calcium: 101mg | Iron: 5mg