One-pan salmon with roast asparagus
By Barney Desmazery
Cooking time
Prep: 20 mins Cook: 1 minSkill level
EasyServings
Serves 2For an easy side dish to complement a spring roast, just cook this recipe without the salmon
Nutrition and extra info
Additional info
- Easily doubled / halved
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 483
- protein
- 33g
- carbs
- 34g
- fat
- 25g
- saturates
- 4g
- fibre
- 3g
- sugar
- 6g
- salt
- 0.24g
Ingredients
- 400g new potatoes, halved if large
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 8 asparagus spears, trimmed and halved
- 2 handfuls cherry tomatoes
- 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- 2 salmon fillets, about 140g/5oz each
- handful basil leaves
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Method
- Heat oven to 220C/fan 200C/gas 7. Tip the potatoes and 1 tbsp of olive oil into an ovenproof dish, then roast the potatoes for 20 mins until starting to brown. Toss the asparagus in with the potatoes, then return to the oven for 15 mins.
- Throw in the cherry tomatoes and vinegar and nestle the salmon amongst the vegetables. Drizzle with the remaining oil and return to the oven for a final 10-15 mins until the salmon is cooked. Scatter over the basil leaves and serve everything scooped straight from the dish.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, May 2008
Comments, questions and tips
Comments
Made a change from my usual ways of serving salmon, and very easy. I added an uncrushed clove of garlic and seasoning to the new potatoes. My son thought looked this looked like a restaurant cooked meal! Served with a side salad. Will make again, maybe using courgettes and peppers when asparagus is no longer in season
This is an insanely delicious recipe, now made for the second time. I used lots of ground black pepper and salt. For the oil I used one tablespoon of garlic-infused olived oil to roast the potatoes, and then a tablespoon of basil-infused oil to drizzle over the fish. Really good recipe, definitely a keeper!
Yum-tastic!
The recipe didn't call for seasoning but next time I'll add both salt and pepper, especially to the potatoes.
The amounts are modest so this meal would be good for dieting or adding a starter and dessert to. Alternatively you can increase the portion sizes which I'll do next time.
It's a real low maintenance meal so good if you're busy.
Delicious!
Tried this recipe at the weekend. Read some of the comments before hand so added a small roughly chopped onion and a chopped garlic clove with the potatoes. I also seasoned and added a little more balsamic. The salmon was superb, as was the overall flavour. I added the asparagus at the same time as the tomatoes but it needed a bit longer so next time I will follow the recipe. Also, next time I will parboil the potatoes. This dish definitely gets the thumbs up!
