This is a great YomTov recipe - quick and easy. It calls for few ingredients, it's family friendly, and delicious served cold or warm. You can make it with a whole salmon or trout fillets, if preferred.
Serves: 6
Preparation: 10 minutes
Cooking: 20 minutes
Ingredients
6 150g salmon fillets, skinned
1-2 tbsp olive oil
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
140g Greek or natural yoghurt
1 tbsp tahini
1 tbsp lemon juice
3 tbsp each of fresh mint, coriander and flat leaf parsley, finely chopped
Zest of 1 lemon
2 tsp sumac
50g toasted pine nuts
Garnish
● 1 lemon – cut into wedges
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Place the salmon fillets on a tray lined with baking parchment.
- Drizzle with olive oil and season well.
- Bake for about 20 minutes or until just cooked.
- Remove from the oven to cool.
- Transfer to a platter.
- Meanwhile, mix the yoghurt, tahini and lemon juice in a bowl and season.
- In a separate bowl combine
- the chopped herbs, lemon zest,
- sumac and pine nuts.
- Spread each salmon fillet with the tahini sauce and scatter with the herb mixture.
- Garnish with lemon.
