What is Salmon en croute supposed to be?

[PeachesMcLean]

I've got salmon. I've got puff pastry. Is that it???

(I've just thought there should be some sort of sauce involved....) Hope not - was planning to start cooking in half an hour!
Thanks all in advance

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White/cream sauce too sometimes with dill - not too much though or it goes really soggy!

anything en croute is lovely

oh yes must have dill

Not easy - M&S much easier!

It is very easy, yes it is just salmon wrapped in puff pastry, salmon steam beautifully in the time it takes to cook the pastry. Serve it with a beurre blanc sauce.

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Yes, Salmon en croute is just salmon and pastry. Nice to add butter, lemon, dill or spinach as well.

Beurre blanc sauce is good and must have dill. Yummy

shuud gone to waitrose Cod

I could do a white sauce with lots of dill. Would a dollop of it go inside the pastry or served on top of it?

Thanks Carmenere but I'd have to start a thread entitled "What is beurre blanc supposed to be?"

LOL - just read Cod's 'srecnetly' as 'secretly' - was thinking 'but why does she want to keep it a secret?'

Personally would serve with hollandaise, if I could be bothered.

If you put it inside be very careful not to add too much - otherwise the pastry will go soggy.

Ok it is actually really easy once you get the hang of it and if it curdles it won't matter too much if you add a load of fresh chopped dill into it.
You need butter chopped into inch squares and in the fridge as it needs to be cold.

Reduce some white wine vineagar with some chopped shallots and peppercorns in the bottom of a heavy sauce pan. When it has reduced by half, add half a cup of cream. Allow this to reduce by half and then slowly add a cube of butter whilst stirring. Continue to do this until your butter is used up(about 1/4 lb should do it.
Keep the sauce warm by keeping it at the side of the cooker and add a handful of chopped dill just before you serve.

We did it at Christmas - layered mixture of softened chopped fennel and onions with watercress added at the last minute to wilt, then the salmon , then wrapped it up in pastry. Served with a "sauce" of watercress and cremefraiche blended.

That sounds delicious. Will have to try that next time as I've neither shallots nor white wine vinegar (or cream for that matter.... Oh, or in fact butter).

We're into salmon at the moment so I'll let you know how that goes next week!

Off now to start on tonight's food - thanks all for your posts. I've been googling for 10 minutes befoe posting and knew I'd get a better answer here.