Stuffed Salmon Parcels With Tomato Cream Sauce

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 2 (200 g) mid-cut salmon fillets
• 8 large wide cabbage leaves
• 6 large mushrooms, chopped fine
• 2 stalks green spring onions, chopped fine
• 2 sprigs fresh basil leaves, chopped fine
• 1 medium carrot, grated
• 3 tablespoons lemon juice
• salt & pepper
• 2 tablespoons lemongrass paste
• toothpick, to secure the parcels
• 4 tablespoons any red pasta sauce or 4 tablespoons salsa
• 3/4 cup half-and-half cream
• 1 dash black pepper

Recipe

• 1 wash the salmon fillets , add 2 tablespoons of the lemon juice and 1 teaspoon of the lemon grass paste and keep aside for 15 minutes.
• 2 in a microwavable bowl add the chopped mushrooms, basil, carrot , spring onion,1 teaspoon lemon grass paste and the lemon juice, season with salt and pepper.
• 3 microwave for 2 minutes and set aside.
• 4 wash the cabbage leaves and blanch them in hot salted water , run cold water to keep them from wilting but they should be nice and soft.
• 5 carefully remove the skin from the salmon and cut into 8 pieces of same size.
• 6 on each cabbage leaf spread a little lemon grass paste,a small amount of the microwaved mix put a piece of salmon sprinkle little course black pepper and fold the leaf to make a neat parcel-secure with tooth picks.
• 7 use a round open glass dish , spray with cooking spray and arrange the parcels . spray the parcels with the spray again.
• 8 cover with a microwavable dish cover and microwave on high for 8 minutes.remove on a serving dish or a plate-let cool for few minutes.remove the tooth picks.
• 9 in a glass bowl mix the pasta sauce and cream and blend till well mixed.
• 10 either pour all the sauce on the parcels if serving as a one dish or if on individual plates spoon a bit of the sauce on the plate, put one parcel , spoon sauce on the parcel. garnish with a fresh basil leaves.