Combine smoked salmon with a dill and parsley pesto to make this quick and easy midweek meal. It uses ready-made puff pastry for speed.
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Ingredients
- 375g sheet ready-rolled puff pastry
- 1 medium free-range egg, beaten
- 1 lemon, ½ thinly sliced
- ½ red onion, finely sliced
- 1 tbsp capers, drained and rinsed
- 5 tbsp crème fraîche
- 200g leftover smoked salmon
For the dill and parsley pesto
- ½ garlic clove
- 1 tbsp toasted pine nuts
- Good bunch of fresh flatleaf parsley, roughly chopped
- Good bunch of fresh dill, roughly chopped, plus extra to garnish
- 15g Parmesan, finely grated
- 100ml extra-virgin olive oil, plus extra for dressing
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Method
- Preheat the oven to 200°C/fan180°C/gas 6. Unroll the pastry onto a baking sheet, brush with the beaten egg and bake for 20 minutes or until risen, crisp and golden.
- Meanwhile make the pesto. Whizz the garlic and pine nuts in a food processor (or pound in a pestle and mortar). Add the parsley and dill, then pulse (or pound) again until finely chopped. Remove to a bowl, add the Parmesan, then drizzle over the oil, whisking, until you have a spoonable consistency. Season to taste and squeeze over a little juice from the unsliced lemon half.
- Mix the onion, lemon slices and capers. Dress with the rest of the juice from the lemon half, a drizzle of olive oil and a little salt.
- Top the cooked pastry with dollops of the crème fraîche, the smoked salmon and the onion mixture. Return to the oven for 5 minutes to warm through. Drizzle with the pesto, garnish with the dill and serve with a crisp winter leaf salad.
Nutrition
- 400kcals Calories
- 27.9g (11.2g saturated) Fat
- 14.4g Protein
- 22.8g (1.5g sugars) Carbs
- 0.2g Fibre
- 1.9g Salt
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