Baked Salmon with Parsley Sauce

Ingredients

• •black pepper
• •2 teaspoons dijon mustard
• •1 handful flat leaf parsley
• •1 lemon
• •1 tbsp olive oil
• •½ oz all-purpose flour
• •10 oz reduced fat milk
• •4 salmon fillets
• •salt
• •½ oz butter

Method

Adapted from foodista.com

1. 1To bake the salmon, pre-heat your oven to 400F.
2. 2Place aluminium foil in a roasting tray. Enough so that you can wrap the fish in it loosely.
3. 3Place the fish on the foil.
4. 4Drizzle over the oil and the lemon juice.
5. 5Sprinkle over the salt and the pepper.
6. 6Cover your fish with the foil, making a loose parcel.
7. 7Place the tray in the oven and allow to bake for 7 to 12 minutes. The cooking time will not only depend on your oven, but also on how thick the salmon fillets are. While the salmon is baking you can make the sauce.
8. 8To make the sauce, melt the butter in a heavy bottomed pan. Not a non-stick pan.
9. 9Add the flour and mix it, using a metal whisk, until it is covered with the butter (a few seconds)
10. 10Add about half third of the milk, whisk vigorously, it will be lumpy, don't worry.
11. 11Once this is thickened into a mass, add the other half and whisk until smooth.
12. 12Turn the heat down to low, add the mustard and parsley with a little salt and mix it through with a wooden spoon, let it sauce simmer very gently for a few minutes.
13. 13If at any point you feel the sauce is too thick, add a little bit of milk.
14. 14Check for seasoning and serve.