Baked salmon with garlic and herb crust

2 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1 Clove garlic; finely chopped
1 tablespoon Dried Marjoram
4 tablespoons Flat leaf parsley; chopped
3 tablespoons Fresh bread crumbs
4 tablespoons Extra virgin olive oil
½ teaspoon Salt
Ground pepper to taste
pounds Salmon fillets; skinned

Directions

1. Heat the oven to 400 degrees.

2. With a mortar and pestle crush the garlic to a paste. In a small mixing bowl combine the garlic, marjoram, parsley, breadcrumbs, olive oil, and salt.

3. Grind in a little black pepper and stir until you have a paste.

4. Cut the fillet crosswise into four pieces, lightly grease a baking dish with about 2 Tsp. olive oil, arrange the fillets with at least 1 inch apart.

5. Bake the salmon for about 5 minutes, remove from the oven, spread the paste mixture over the fillets and bake the salmon for another 5-10 minutes.

Recipe by: Fine Cooking - Tauton Press Posted to recipelu-digest by RecipeLu <recipelu@...> on Feb 19, 1998

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