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Roast salmon with macadamia and rocket pesto recipe

Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw

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Roast salmon with macadamia and rocket pesto.
Roast salmon with macadamia and rocket pesto.William Meppem

Pesto doesn't have to be packed full of cheese for it to be good. This dairy-free version is full of flavour and a perfect match with fish like salmon.

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Ingredients

  • 4 x 180g skinless salmon fillets

  • light olive oil

  • salt and pepper

Macadamia and rocket pesto (makes 1 cup)

  • 1 small bunch rocket (about 2 cups, roughly chopped)

  • ½ cup roughly chopped parsley

  • ⅓ cup toasted macadamia nuts, roughly chopped

  • 1 garlic clove, roughly chopped

  • 1½ tbsp lemon juice

  • 100ml light olive oil

  • salt and pepper

Method

  1. Heat oven to 200C. Place the salmon onto an oven tray lined with baking paper and lightly drizzle with a little oil. Season with salt and pepper.

    Bake in the oven for eight minutes or until just cooked through.

    To make the pesto, process the rocket, parsley, macadamia nuts, garlic, lemon juice and olive oil to a coarse paste in a blender or small food processor. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

    Remove salmon from the oven and spoon over pesto to serve.

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Adam LiawAdam Liaw is a cookbook author and food writer, co-host of Good Food Kitchen and former MasterChef winner.

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Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/recipes/roast-salmon-with-macadamia-and-rocket-pesto-recipe-20160922-grlr1e.html