Pesto Salmon Parcels, with green vegetables

This simple pesto salmon recipe is the ultimate hassle-free meal. A green vegetable medley of courgettes (zucchini), peas and green beans is wrapped in parchment with salmon fillets and fresh pesto and all roasted together for a tasty dinner.

Ingredients

Serves Four
220g green beans
150g frozen peas
2 courgettes (zucchini), trimmed and finely sliced
2 tbsp olive oil
2 lemons, ½ juiced, the rest cut into wedges to serve
4 salmon fillets, skinned
4 tsp fresh pesto

To Serve Optional*
500g miniature potatoes
25g butter
10g fresh mint, finely chopped

Method
1. Preheat the oven to gas 6, 200'C, fan 180'C. Put the green beans and peas in a pan of boiling salted water and cook for 3 mins, then drain.
2. Cut 4 rectangles (30 x 40cm) of non-stick baking paper. Divide the courgettes, green beans and peas between each paper, season and drizzle with olive oil and a squeeze of lemon juice. Top with a salmon fillet and spread each piece of salmon evenly with pesto.
3. Loosely fold each paper into a parcel and place on a baking tray or in a shallow roasting tin. Roast for 10-15 mins until the salmon is cooked through and the vegetables are tender.
4. If serving with potatoes ... boil them for approx. ten/fifteen minutes, then drain and return to the pan. Toss with the butter and mint.
5. Remove the parcels from the oven and serve with the potatoes and lemon wedges.

*Serving Suggestions

i) If you haven't got any baby potatoes, try dicing a large white potato instead.

ii) Alternative lower carb choice to potato could be mashed swede (rutabaga), with more lower carb suggestions here

The above recipe from original idea here

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