Cranberries is one of the typical Christmas ingredients, they are a bit bitter, a bit sweet and a very colorful addition to the menu. The combination of cranberries with fish is not very common but since I am a real fish lover I wanted to give it a try and honestly I loved it!!! Soft and warm salmon with a cranberry -orange spread. I believe it is a perfect Christmas dish if you want to do something non-traditional.
Ingredients for 4 pers.:
- 250 gr cranberries
- 600 gr salmon fillet
- 1 orange
- bread-crumbs (2 slices of bread)
- fresh parsley
- salt and pepper
How to prepare it:
Pre-heat your oven to 200 degrees.
Put the cranberries into a small pan with a bit of water and put them on the stove. Let them boil for about 5 min and take them of the stove. In the meantime, you can grate the skin of the orange and squeeze out the juice. Chop the parsley and roast the bread.
Sprinkle some salt and pepper on both sides of the salmon and put the salmon in a greased oven dish.
Put the cranberries in a mixing bowl, add the orange zest, the orange juice, the parsley and the bread crumbs. Keep a bit of the zest and the parsley aside. Mash everything and taste well, add it a bit of sugar if you feel the mixture is too bitter. Add a bit of salt and pepper as well. Mash again till it is a soft and smooth mixture.
Put the cranberry mash on top of the salmon, spread it out evenly. Put the salmon in the oven for 20 minutes.
Take it out of the oven and cut 4 equal slices of salmon. Put them on a plate and garnish with some orange zest and parsley.
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