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- Ingredients
- Potatoes, 4-5 large
- Salt and pepper, or just seasoning salt
- Tartar sauce, 3-4 Tbsp.
- Olive oil
- Broccoli, one small head, cut into florets
- Salmon pieces, about 2-1/2 cups (or lightly smoked salmon)
- Roma tomatoes, about 3 of them, chopped
- Chives, dried or fresh, about 1 tsp. dried
- Salt and pepper
- Juice of 1/2 lemon
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Prepare a shallow baking dish with non-stick spray. [I use a 9″ ceramic pie pan.]
Boil potatoes until soft. Strain potatoes and season with salt and pepper (or seasoning salt). Mash the potatoes. Stir tartar sauce into the mashed potatoes. Stir about 1/2 Tbsp. olive oil into mashed potatoes. Spoon the mashed potatoes into the prepared baking dish and tamp it into the bottom and sides with a spoon or rubber scraper. Drizzle with olive oil. Bake at 400 degrees F for 20-30 minutes, until golden.
Steam or broil or otherwise cook broccoli. Set aside.
Stir together salmon, tomatoes, chives, salt and pepper, and lemon juice. Set aside.
Remove potatoes from oven and arrange broccoli over the top. Scoop the salmon mixture over the top of the broccoli. Bake an additional 15-30 minutes at 400 degrees F, until fish is cooked.
*Lightly Smoked Salmon . . . Spread one salmon filet with Dijon mustard and then sprinkle with salt and pepper (heavy on the pepper). Smoke at 225 degrees F for 1-1/2 hours. Good to go.
NOTES: This recipe started from Jamie Oliver. I have SO MUCH salmon. I had lightly smoked a salmon filet, but then realized I wasn’t having a dinner party so what would I do with it all. Improvise! I couldn’t really figure out where Jamie Oliver was headed just by reading the recipe, but once I started making this, I was like, “Oh, I get it!” So, that time I used smoked salmon instead of regular. It was already “cooked” instead of raw. I didn’t use any prawns because, well, I have SO MUCH salmon. I get salmon from my friend Sandy, and she had sent me a couple frozen bricks of boneless salmon meat. Another time, I used nearly the whole brick making this. It’s perfect! I didn’t have cherry tomatoes, so I used Romas instead. And on and on it goes. Mixing tartar sauce with mashed potatoes was the real mind-blower, but it’s great! I cannot overstate how flavorful this dish is, a mix of earthy and tart. Try it!
I’ve made this dish several times over the past couple years and it’s really, really delicious. My recipe is based upon one found at TamingTwins, but I’ve modified it quite a bit.
This dish is how I use my leftover salmon that’s already cooked. I haven’t tried it, but I believe canned salmon would work as well. We eat a lot of sweet potatoes because they purportedly are lower in carbs than regular potatoes, but that may just be an advertising ploy by sweet potato growers. Sweet potatoes are commonly called yams in the USA, but real yams are an entirely different vegetable originating in Africa or Asia and most of us have probably never eaten or seen one. That aside, if you’re at the grocery store shopping for yams, almost assuredly they are selling you sweet potatoes. Go ahead and get the yams.
This recipe’s proportions are basically eyeballed. I’ll give you my ingredient proportions, but do feel free to wing it with a handful of this or that. You’ll see. I tend to start by choosing a baking dish that I can spread a layer of flaked salmon evenly across the bottom. The next layer is prawns and onion that has been cooked in milk. TamingTwins poached her salmon with onion in the milk, but I like to use my leftover salmon that’s already cooked. However you decide to do things, the purpose is to flavor the milk with seafood. The next layer is the shrimp and onion-flavored milk made into a white sauce. The next layer is the mashed sweet potatoes mixed with grated cheddar cheese. You can cook the sweet potatoes however you like, they just need to end up mashed. The last layer is grated cheese over the top. This dish is like a shepherd’s pie, but maybe we should call it a fisher’s pie. It may not look like much, but it’s super yummy.
- Ingredients
- 2-3 Sweet potatoes (yams)
- Salt and pepper
- 1 cup grated cheddar cheese, divided
- Cooked salmon, at least two serving pieces
- 1-1/2 cups milk
- 1/2 onion, chopped
- 5 Prawns (extra-large), peeled, deveined, and rough chopped
- 3 Tbsp. butter
- 3 Tbsp. flour
- 1 Tbsp. parsley flakes (optional)
Peel and cut the sweet potatoes into large pieces. Put them into a pot with an inch or so of water and boil/steam until the sweet potatoes are soft. Mash them and then stir in a dash of salt and pepper and 1/3 cup grated cheese. Set aside.
Debone and flake the salmon. Spread it evenly across the bottom of a baking dish. I used a 2-quart dish. Set aside.
Bring milk with onion to a boil in a saucepan and let simmer for a couple minutes until the onion is cooked. Stir in the prawns. Let simmer until they’re cooked. It won’t take long at all, a minute or two. Strain out the onion and prawns, making sure to save the milk. Spread the onions and prawns across the salmon in the baking dish. Set aside. Let the milk cool to room temperature or less. It was zero degrees here while I was last making this, so I just strained the milk into a measuring cup and set it outside to cool. Didn’t take long. Ha.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Make a roux by melting butter in a small saucepan and stirring in the flour, salt, and pepper over medium heat. Stir in the cooled milk and continue stirring over medium heat until the sauce is thick and bubbly. Remove from heat and stir in the parsley flakes, if using (I didn’t have any). Pour the sauce over the seafood in the baking dish.
Dollop mashed sweet potatoes evenly over the filling in the baking dish. You can smooth it out or fluff it up, however you like. Sprinkle with remaining 2/3 cup grated cheese.
Bake at 350 degrees F for 30-40 minutes, until heated through. Heavenly!
I baked this one for thirty minutes, but it could have used another 5-10 in the oven. I was too hungry to wait!
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