Sizzling salmon with bean mash

Sizzling salmon with bean mash

Sara Buenfeld creates a stylish main course in minutes that's smart enough for casual entertaining.

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 15 mins

Method

  1. Set the grill to its highest setting. Put the salmon fillets flesh-side up and evenly spaced in a shallow flameproof dish. Finely grate the zest of the lime into a bowl, then squeeze in the juice and stir in the honey, mustard and a good sprinkling of salt. Pour the mixture over the salmon and grill, without turning, for 5-6 minutes until it's golden on top and cooked through (check the centre with a fork).
  2. Meanwhile, tip the beans into a saucepan and add the butter, crème fraîche, garlic and plenty of salt and pepper. Turn the heat on to moderate and coarsely mash everything together - a wooden spoon or a masher will do the job - until hot and bubbling. This only takes a few minutes as the beans are already cooked.Tip in the rocket and stir into the mash until it's hot and just wilted.
  3. Serve the salmon on the mash, drizzled with the cooking juices.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, May 2002.

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  • 05 August 2009

    julie rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    very easy to make ,a quick meal in the week, i ate most of it but enjoyed the salmon the most, the butter bean mash wasn,t great,as my hubby and 2 sons didn,t think it was great.

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  • 10 October 2009

    Mark commented on this recipe

    Just made this now and it was lovely. Warning, do not over mash the beans otherwise they are too soft to hold up the salmon. Used Spinach instead of Rocket and worked really well.

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  • 14 April 2010

    iamac rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Love the bean mash. family liked this recipe.

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  • 10 June 2010

    lisa rated this recipe

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  • 13 June 2010

    Marina rated this recipe

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  • 29 June 2010

    Libby0 rated and commented on this recipe

    1 stars

    I normally like butter beans but this was yuk!

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  • 02 November 2010

    Vicki Flashman commented on this recipe

    Not a bad recipe, but we found the beans a little bland.

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  • 09 November 2010

    AK19 rated this recipe

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  • 29 June 2011

    EmSmith rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    The flavours were all great but the dish didn't really turn out as I'd hoped. The bean mash was very dry and required a good slug of stock to moisten it up. The rocket was also very overpowering - I would either use a lot less or substitute it with baby spinach. And by the time the salmon was cooked through under the grill there was very little in the way of 'cooking juices' to drizzle over the dish since it had pretty much dried up. I had to serve it with lime wedges instead. Good flavours, though. And the beans made a pleasant departure, carb-wise, from potatoes or rice.

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  • 22 July 2011

    sllyst rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Delicious and nutritious! Fine the grill on the highest setting burns the mixture so will cook it lower next time to have the juices left.

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  • 07 September 2011

    helen rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Lovely easy meal to make for dnner. Salmon marinade/sauce easy to make and tasty. Let it go crunchy on top of salmon. Butter bean mix lovely and creamy, will use this with other meat/fish.

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  • 31 October 2011

    LoloMuds commented on this recipe

    Lovely dish! Very impressed and very easy for a Monday night tea! My 16 month old loves it too. This will become a family favourite.

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  • 15 February 2013

    Sparky rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    I really enjoyed cooking & eating this recipe. The sauce is sweet & zingy going perfectly with the salmon & bean mash. I didn't grill my salmon but put it in the oven in a dish with all the sauce, so there was plenty of sauce to pour over it all when plated up. Also served with slightly roasted cherry tomatoes on the vine. Delicious !

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  • 27 April 2013

    ppp99 rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    This was lovely and the beans worked really well. I cooked the salmon in the oven but I think I'll double the quantity of the sauce next time as I'd prefer a bit more to drizzle.

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Serves 4

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