This elegant dinner party dish is guaranteed to please your guests
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp butter
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 onion, finely sliced
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 300g Puy lentils
- Handful of fresh thyme sprigs
- 450ml chicken stock, hot
- 2 tbsp creamed hot horseradish
- 75ml double cream
- Good squeeze of lemon juice
- 4 skinless salmon fillets
- Handful of fresh flatleaf parsley, chopped, to serve
Method
- 1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan160°C/gas 4. Heat the butter with the oil in an ovenproof dish, then fry the onion over a medium heat for 5 minutes. Add the garlic, fry for 30 seconds, then stir in the lentils, thyme and stock. Cover with a lid or tin foil, then transfer to the oven and cook for 20 minutes.
- 2. Remove the lentils from the oven. Stir in the horseradish, cream, lemon juice and some seasoning. Season the salmon, place on top, then return to the oven, covered, for 8-10 minutes until the fillets are just cooked.
- 3. Remove the dish from the oven, then sprinkle with the parsley. Serve with the chard.
Nutritional info
Per serving: 740kcals, 34.4g fat (12.4g saturated), 59g protein, 48g carbs (4.6g sugars), 0.7g salt, 16.3g fibre
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