"Judith in France" schrieb :
> On Mar 10, 5:12 pm, "Michael Kuettner" wrote:
>> "Judith in France" schrieb :
>> <snip>
>>
>> > A more pressing problem for me going to be preparing and cooking
>> > salmon en croute for dinner on Wednesday night when 3 friends are
>> > coming round. I haven't made it so any tips would be appreciated and
>> > if I did it tomorrow, would it be o.k. to serve it cold as a starter
>> > with Hollandaise?
>>
>> I know at least 5 different ways to prepare salmon in pastry-dough.
>> Do you want champignons, spinach or what ?
>> Or what's your recipe ?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Michael Kuettner
>
> I want to use spinach, I am confused as to whether I should seal the
> salmon beforehand or cook it from raw in the croute, I have seen
> different methods and that's why I asked for a personal recommendation
> of something someone has tried, it's much better than a book I think.
> Many thanks.
>
OK, here we go.

Salmon in pastry dough
(serves 4)

600 grams salmon fillet (without skin)
600 grams spinach (or 400 grams frozen spinach)
1 large onion (ca.70 grams) ,finely chopped
2 eggs
120 milliliters cream
1 table spoon wheat flour
a little bouillon
nutmeg, grated
salt, pepper
pastry dough

a little oil for frying
1 egg yolk
1 egg white
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Wash spinach and dry well.
Heat oil in pan (high heat), throw in spinach and stir, until spinach is wilted.
Throw in a sieve and drain.

Mix cream with the 2 eggs, flour, bouillon, nutmeg salt and pepper.

Bring pan to medium heat, add some oil and fry onions until golden brown
(ca. 4 minutes), while stirring.
Add spinach and stir for ca. 3 minutes.

Add the mixture. Reduce.

Salt the salmon fillet.

Either cut the fillet in 4 pieces and put each on dough, or make one big pie.

Put salmon on pastry dough, put spinach mix on top of salmon.
Fold dough over salmon (first from the long axis, seal with egg white,
then short axis, seal with egg white).
Poke wholes on upper side of the package with a fork.
Now smear some egg yolk on dough.
Bake in preheated oven at 200 deg. C for ca 20 minutes.
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Is that what you had in mind ?

Cheers,

Michael Kuettner