Baked salmon steaks with a cream and prawn sauce

This recipe from Ireland makes a very respectable salmon dish worthy of any dinner party – either as a starter or as a main course.

Preparation Time: 10 Mins

Cooking Time: 30 Mins

Total Time: 40 Mins

Ingredients

For 4 servings…

4 steaks           Salmon     

60 gms            Flour  - seasoned     

60 gms            Butter       

2 tsp               Lemon juice            

For the sauce

30 gms            Butter       

30 gms            Flour  - plain

30 cl               Milk         

4                    Shallots  - chopped finely        

110 gms          Prawns  - peeled      

                     Pepper  - freshly ground, black 

                     Salt          

2 tbs               Cream  - double      

To serve

                     Potatoes  - new, buttered       

                     Green salad

Method

Toss the salmon steaks in the seasoned flour.

Place the steaks on a piece of kitchen foil, dot with butter and sprinkle with lemon juice.  Make the foil into a parcel and bake in a moderate oven (180°C) for 20 minutes.

Melt the sauce butter in a small saucepan and stir in the flour.  Cook for a few minutes and then gradually add the milk and the cooking juices from the fish.  Continue cooking until the sauce has thickened and then add the shallots and prawns.  Season to taste.  Finally, stir in the cream.

Serve the fish with the sauce, buttered new potatoes and a green salad.

Wine recommendations

A robust white wine – possible with aroma to cut though the sauce.

Conventional

     Côtes du Rhône blanc

Interesting

     Montagny

     Montlouis

     Saint Joseph blanc

     Savennières