A flavoursome dish which brings the best out of salmon with the inspiring compliments of orange and cranberry.
Recipe Information:
- Serves: 8
- Salmon Portion: Fresh Salmon, Fillet
- Course: Main
- Cooking Method: Bake
- Preparation Time: Less than 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- 8 x 125g / 4 oz fillets of Tartan Quality Mark salmon, skin on
- 25g / 1oz butter
- 1 orange, sliced
- 125ml /5 fl oz white wine
- 4 cloves
- 1 star anise
- 1 bay leaf
- salt and cracked black pepper
- zest and juice of 1 orange
- For compote
- 225g /8 oz cranberries
- 50g / 2oz brown sugar
- zest and juice of 2 oranges for the glaze
- zest and juice of 1 orange
Method:
- Pre heat the oven 190C /375F / Gas Mark 5
- Line a shallow dish with buttered foil. Place the salmon portions, skin side down in the dish. Top with orange slices, wine, cloves, star anise, bay leaf and seasoning.
- Cover loosely with foil and bake for 20 minutes. The salmon is cooked when the flesh is opaque.
- While the salmon is cooking, place all the ingredients for the cranberry compote into a saucepan and cook gently for 10 minutes until the cranberries softened and burst to release their flavour.
- When the salmon portions are cooked brush with the orange zest and juice glaze.
- Serve the salmon, topped with the cranberry compote, alongside new potatoes and green vegetables.