Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, pesto salmon and asparagus in foil. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
The other way I want to try this next time is with asparagus in place of the green beans which I think I'll like even more, it's just that I already did a salmon and foil recipe with asparagus so I wanted to switch things up and use something different. Assemble the foil pack with a vegetable on the bottom. In this case, I used asparagus.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook pesto salmon and asparagus in foil using 9 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Pesto Salmon and Asparagus in Foil:
- Get 2 skinless salmon fillets
- Get 1/2 bunch asparagus, tough ends trimmed
- Get 1 tbsp olive oil
- Get 1 clove garlic, minced
- Make ready salt
- Get pepper
- Make ready 1/2 lemon thinly sliced
- Prepare 2 tbsp fresh dill, chopped
- Take 2 tbsp pesto
Place one salmon fillet in the center of each sheet, top with a serving of the asparagus and drizzle with lemon juice. Sprinkle with fresh ground pepper Bring up the sides of foil and fold top over twice. Seal ends, leaving room for air to circulate inside the packet. Place packets on a cookie sheet and cook in.
Instructions to make Pesto Salmon and Asparagus in Foil:
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Cut two sheets of aluminum foil about 14-inch long. Divide asparagus into 2 equal portions (about 8 spears per foil packet) and layer in centre of each length of foil.
- In a small bowl stir together oil with garlic. Cover the asparagus with half of the oil mixture, then sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- Season each salmon fillet with salt and pepper. Layer fillets over asparagus
- Drizzle top of each salmon fillet with the remaining olive oil mixture. The cover with pesto.
- Top each with about 2 sprigs dill and 2 lemon slices.
- Wrap sides of foil inward over salmon then fold in top and bottom of foil to enclose.
- Place foil pouches in a single layer on a baking sheet. Bake in preheated oven until salmon is cooked through, about 25 minutes.
- Unwrap and serve warm with boiled potatoes if you like potatoes.
The best thing about this salmon and asparagus recipe is that you can cook just as much (or as little) as you need. This is the perfect recipe if you are making something for yourself, but this can also be a family meal. This recipe bakes salmon, asparagus and lemon together for a complete meal in a single serve packet. If you haven't tried baking salmon in a foil packet, you've been missing out on one of the easiest ways to get flavorful baked salmon that's NEVER dry! Place vegetables on top of salmon.
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