salmon with pesto and puff pastry
Puff pastry and pesto salmon
Use frozen puff pastry sheet. Cut pieces that are slightly larger than the salmon filets. Like 1/4 sheet per slice of salmon (depending on size of sheet).
Top each salmon filet with sliced almonds Add them to the baking sheet with the puff pastry but give it room to puff up. Bake at 400 degrees for 10 minutes.
Thinly slice a tomato.
To assemble: put a slice of puff pastry then top it with 2-3 teaspoons of pesto, a slice or two of tomato and add the salmon.
notes: this only requires 5 ingredients, takes roughly 15 minutes and is perfect for a dinner party or an elegant dinner at home with suprisingly little hassle!!
review: Everyone ate a ton of this. I baked the puff pastry in the oven, they took about 15 minutes actually but put the salmon on the grill, since it IS only going to be summer for a little while longer. I did also use store bought pesto since i was out of home-made and it was THICK. So i mixed about 1/2 of it with some olive oil and that was a better texture. i excluded tomatoes because we didn't have any and i'm not a huge fan but it didn't matter. We all scarfed this down! it was SOO good and really filling. We just had some green beans with it and we all were talking about how full we were. I'm going to keep this one and make it again this winter :)
if you're wanting more recipes look later this week, i'm going to be trying out a few to see how well they keep/reheat in terms of bringing my lunch with me to work the following week so we'll be doing some experimenting with new recipes :) yay new recipes!