Recipe - Salmon In A Sauce

1 pound Salmon fillet (cut into 3
servings ); (3 to 4)
1 Lime
Butter
One half teaspoon Salt
One fourth teaspoon Pepper
1 teaspoon Ginger; (One fourth tsp. for sauce)
One fourth cup Chopped shallot or green
onion; use white part only
One half cup White Port wine
One half cup Heavy cream

Remove outer green rind of lime. Cut into narrow strips (1/8 inch). Boil 2
minutes or so to remove bitter taste. Drain. Remove enough lime section so
that you have 2 sections per salmon portion . Squeeze One half teaspoon lime
juice for remaining lime sections. Preheat oven to 500 degrees. Prepare
piece of heavyduty foil for each serving of salmon. Brush foil with
butter. Arrange salmon with combination of salt, pepper, ginger, cooked
lime rind. Top each serving with 2 lime sec tions. Fold foil over fish and
seal. Place on baking sheet. Bake for 5 to 7 minutes or until packet begins
to puff. To test for doneness, carefully open corner of packet, fish should
just begin to flake when touched with fork. Meanwhile, prepare sauce; saute
shallots in butter until soft (3 minutes). Pour in wine. Cook over
mediumhigh heat until liquid is reduced by half and syrupy, about 8
minutes. Stir in cream, reserve lime juice, ginger and cayenne. Whisk in
some butter just before serving. To serve, spoon sauce onto plate. Remove
salmon from packet and place 1 portion in each pool of sauce. Garnish with
dill sprigs, if you wish. 524 calories.

This is a recipe from our database at Cookbooks On/Line!
Posted to EATLF Digest by Kat scizwiz@lazerlink.com on Feb 5, 1998