1 hr
Not Too Tricky
serves 12
About the recipe
Creamy, rich and packed with spices, this traybake is fresh, flavoursome and super-comforting. Simply whack it in the middle of the table and let your guests help themselves, and serve with clove-spiked rice, warm chapatis and poppadoms for a really epic meal.
Ingredients
3 onions
4 cloves of garlic
5cm piece of ginger
2 fresh red chillies
1 bunch of fresh coriander (30g)
1 red pepper
1 yellow pepper
olive oil
2 teaspoons brown mustard seeds
2 teaspoons fenugreek seeds
2 teaspoons fennel seeds
1 handful of curry leaves
1 x 1.5kg side of salmon, skin on, scaled, pin-boned, from sustainable sources
300g ripe cherry tomatoes
28 large raw peeled tiger prawns, from sustainable sources
2 x 400g tins of light coconut milk
4 lemons
Method
- Preheat the oven to 160ºC/325ºF/gas 3.
- Peel and finely slice the onions, garlic and ginger, then deseed and finely slice the chillies. Pick the coriander leaves, finely chopping the stalks, and deseed and slice the peppers.
- Put your largest roasting tray on the hob over a medium heat, and drizzle in 1 tablespoon of oil. Add the spices and curry leaves and fry for 2 minutes, then add the chopped veg, garlic and coriander stalks. Cook for 15 minutes, or until softened, stirring occasionally.
- Place the salmon into the tray, skin-side down. Season with sea salt and black pepper, and drizzle lightly with oil. After 1 minute, carefully turn the salmon skin-side up, then place the tray in the oven for 20 minutes, or until the salmon is almost cooked through.
- Quarter the tomatoes, and run the tip of a knife down the backs of the prawns and pull out the vein, meaning they'll butterfly as they cook.
- Remove the tray from the oven and preheat the grill to full whack. Carefully peel the skin off the salmon and place onto a piece of tin foil.
- Stir the tomatoes, prawns and coconut milk into the tray, then finely grate over the zest from 1 lemon and squeeze over the juice. Gently simmer on the hob over a medium-low heat until the prawns are just cooked through.
- Place the salmon skin under the grill for 5 minutes, or until lovely and crisp, then leave to cool.
- Break the salmon into big chunks. Season the sauce to taste with salt, pepper and a squeeze of lemon juice, then snap up and scatter over the crispy salmon skin.
- Sprinkle over the coriander leaves and serve with lots of lemon wedges for squeezing over.
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