Best Salmon And Couscous Pie Recipes

SALMON IN A COUSCOUS CRUST

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
• In a large bowl, stir together the parsley, raisins, olives, capers, pine nuts, olive oil, and lemon juice and season with salt and pepper; stir in the couscous to moisten completely and season generously with salt and pepper.
• Put the salmon in a single layer in a smallish buttered gratin dish or baking dish (bottom measured 10 by 7 1/4 inches; 2.8 liter); the fillets should not touch one another. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and drizzle with a little olive oil. Now spoon the couscous mixture over the top of the fish so that it completely covers them and fills in the whole dish at the same time. Pour over the water. Drizzle with olive oil. Put the dish in the oven and bake 25 minutes. Use a large spoon to spoon out the salmon and the couscous.
• Note: 1 cup couscous plus 1 1/3 cups water is a better quantity to serve 2 if you have a smaller gratin dish or baking dish (remaining quantities are the same).

NEW ENGLAND SALMON PIE

Steps:

• In a bowl, combine the potatoes, onion, milk, celery seed, garlic powder, salt and pepper. Stir in salmon and parsley. Line a 9-in. pie plate with bottom pastry; trim even with edges. Spread salmon mixture into crust. , Roll out remaining pastry to fit top of pie; place over filling. Trim, seal and flute edges. Cut slits in top. Beat egg and water; brush over pastry. Bake at 350° for 40-45 minutes or until crust is golden. Refrigerate leftovers.

SALMON AND COUSCOUS BAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°. Spray square baking dish, 8x8x2 inches, with cooking spray. Cut fish into 4 serving pieces.
• Stir couscous, seasoning packet from couscous mix, water, oil, lemon juice, 1/2 teaspoon dill weed, the zucchini and summer squash in baking dish. Place fish on couscous mixture. Sprinkle fish with 1/4 teaspoon dill weed.
• Cover and bake 20 to 25 minutes or until liquid is absorbed and fish flakes easily with fork. Sprinkle with pine nuts.

SALMON AND COUSCOUS PIE

Steps:

• Boil two of the eggs for ten minutes, then cool, drain and peel.
• Wilt the spinach in a bit of boiling water.
• Let cool, then press as much water as you can out of the spinach.
• Place the couscous in a bowl.
• Squeeze juice from half of the lemon into the bowl, add 300ml boiling water and give it a good stir.
• Cover and leave for up to 10 minutes, then use a fork to loosen the grains.
• Cut the salmon into large chunks and squeeze the juice from the other half of lemon on top.
• Season generously with pepper and 1 tbsp of the dill.
• Roughly chop the eggs into big pieces.
• Season with salt and pepper.
• Oil a flat baking sheet and lay out one of the pieces of puff pastry.
• Whisk the remaining egg and then brush a 1 inch border around the pastry.
• Cover with half the spinach.
• Stir half the yoghurt and 1 tbsp of the dill into the couscous and spoon half of that mixture over the spinach.
• Top with the fish and egg.
• Add the rest of the couscous and then the last of the spinach.
• Lay the second sheet of pastry over the filling.
• You may need to dust your worktop with flour first and just roll it a little bit, to make it slightly bigger than the bottom piece.
• Crimp the edges together with a fork, then paint the surface with beaten egg and roll the border towards the centre.
• Make a few steam holes with a fork or knife and put into a moderate oven (350 F or 180C).
• Cook for 20-30 minutes until the pastry is puffed, golden and cooked through.
• Serve in thick slices with a sauce made of the remaining dill and yogurt.