Lukewarm Salmon Lasagne Food

SEAFOOD LASAGNE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 180C/365F/Gas 4.
• Place the milk, bay leaves and garlic into a pan over a medium heat and bring to scalding point (just before boiling point), then remove from heat.
• Melt the butter in a separate pan over a low heat, then stir in the flour and cook 2-3 minutes, stirring constantly (don't let it turn brown).
• Remove the bay leaves and garlic from the milk, then add a little of the milk to the flour and butter mixture. Stir to make a paste and cook out for 1-2 minutes, stirring constantly.
• Gradually add splashes of milk, stirring constantly, until a thick, smooth sauce has formed.
• Gradually add the rest of the milk, adding a little at a time and bringing to the boil before adding more milk. Repeat until all the milk has been added. Take off the heat, add the mustard and season well with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
• Place a spoonful or two of the sauce into a greased ovenproof dish to just cover the bottom. Cover with a couple of lasagne sheets.
• Stir the tarragon, fish, seafood and spinach to the remaining sauce and stir until well combined.
• Spoon some of the fish sauce mixture onto the llasagne sheets and top with another layer of lasagne sheets. Repeat this layering of fish sauce mixture and lasagne until all of the sauce and pasta have been used up. The final layer should be lasagne sheets.
• Sprinkle the top with the cheddar cheese and parmesan, then transfer to the oven to bake for 40 minutes, or until the fish is cooked and the topping is golden-brown.
• Serve at the table in its dish with a bowl of green salad and some garlic bread.

GRIDDLED COURGETTE & SEAFOOD LASAGNE

Steps:

• Heat a griddle and brush a little oil on the courgettes. Cook in batches until lightly charred. Season and scatter on the chilli, then set aside.
• Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Pour a little passata in a medium-sized ovenproof dish. Place half the seafood over it, then season and top with a third of the courgettes.
• Top with 2 sheets of pasta, then more tomato sauce, seafood, courgettes, another layer of pasta, more tomato sauce and finish with the rest of the courgettes. Mix the Parmesan and breadcrumbs, then scatter on top and cook for 25-30 mins until golden. Steam or boil the green beans and serve with the lasagne.

DILL-LICIOUS SALMON AND SPINACH LASAGNA:

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Pour wine into a wide shallow sauce pan, add lemon, garlic and about half of the dill (whole stems will work best), and salt and pepper to taste. Bring to a low simmer, add salmon, and poach until cooked through, turn once if liquid does not cover fish.
• Set salmon aside, and allow to cool. Remove dill sprigs, lemon slices, and garlic, increase heat to high, and reduce poaching liquid to 1/2 cup.
• Thin creme fraiche with reduced cooking liquid to a drizzle-able sauce consistency. Stir in green onions, pimientos, nutmeg, and the other half of the dill minced fine, and salt and pepper to taste. Refrigerate until ready to use.
• Flake salmon into generous bite size pieces with a fork or fingers. Refrigerate until ready to use.
• Cook lasagna noodles according to package directions.
• Lightly oil the bottom of a 9x13 baking dish. Layer 1/3 each of pasta, spinach leaves, salmon, sauce, and cheeses. Finish with cheeses on top.
• Bake about 30 minutes, until hot and bubbly, and cheese is melted.
• Allow lasagna to cool slightly and set up before slicing and serving. Enjoy!

SMOKED SALMON LASAGNE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 180°C To make the white sauce saute the sliced leeks and cashews in a little water until soft. Transfer to a blender and add the milk. Blend until smooth and then return to the pan.
• Mix the cornflour with 2 teaspoons of water until smooth, and then add to the sauce. Bring back to the boil. If the sauce seem too thick, add more milk. If too thin add mor cornflour. Season with salt and pepper.
• Put the mushrooms and balsamic vinegar in a frying pan and cook over hihg heat, stirring occasionally for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in the chopped basil.
• Spread a third of the white sauce over the base of a 3 litre (12 cup) casserole dish. Add a layer of the lasagne sheets, then half the spinach and the mushrooms. Top with another layer of lasagne, another thrid of the white sauce, the asparagus, salmon, anchoives, remaining spinach and then a final layer of pasta and sauce.
• Sprinkle the feta cheese over the top. Cover and bake for 20 minutes then uncover and grill 5-8 mins to brown the top.

LASAGNA WITH FRESH SALMON AND MASCARPONE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 200°C.
• Heat a large fry pan with a lid and add the oil and then add in all the vegetables and cook for a couple of minutes and then push the vegetables to the side of the pan and lightly fry the salmon a a couple of minutes and then pour in the stock and cover the pan with a lid and bring the pan to a light simmer and cook for 3 to 4 minutes or until the salmon is just cooked through.
• Remove the salmon onto a plate and let the vegetables continue cooking until they are very soft and most of the liquid has been absorbed, smash the vegetables with a fork until finely diced.
• Break up all the salmon flesh and mix with the vegetables.
• Whisk the mascarpone cheese with the egg yolks, the egg and season well with salt and pepper and then add the lemon zest and parmesan - this should make a slightly thick paste.
• Before you start layering the lasagna, put one spoon of the fish stock or keep some of the juice that you get from cooking the fish or make extra vegetable juice for this, into the bottom of the dish to make the lasagna moist.
• Layer the lasagna sheets (you may need to break these to fit the dish) with the vegetables, salmon and mascarpone mix and keep on doing this till all the mixture in used, put some vegetable of fish liquid over the top.
• This lasagna should not be too high, just 3 layers, it should be an elegant not a bulky dish.
• Sprinkle extra parmesan cheese on the top.
• Place dish in the oven and bake lasagna to warm through about 12 to 15 minutes.