Croute Recipe ‹ Salmon en Croute with Watercress

This is a fillet of salmon on a bed of herby cream cheese and watercress, wrapped in puff pastry.

Ingredients

• 1 cup watercress, or as desired
• ½ lemon, zested and juiced
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 1 teaspoon dried dill weed
• 1 teaspoon dried parsley
• 1 (17.5 ounce) package frozen puff pastry, thawed
• 2 boneless, skinless salmon fillets
• 1 egg, beaten

Cooking Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
2. Place watercress in a sieve, pour boiling water over to wilt it, and drain on paper towels. Combine wilted watercress with lemon zest in a small bowl. Mix cream cheese, garlic, dill, and parsley together in a separate bowl.
3. Roll out 2 puff pastry sheets gently on a work surface until slightly larger than length of salmon fillets; cut sheets in half. Place 1/2 watercress mixture in center of each sheet. Spread 1/2 cream cheese mixture over watercress. Center salmon fillets on top of cream cheese mixture; squeeze lemon juice over each.
4. Brush the edges of the pastry with some of the egg. Fold top and bottom of pastry over the salmon; trim edges to remove excess pastry. Press pastry seams together with your fingers to seal. Transfer wrapped fillets, seam-side down, to baking sheet. Brush top with beaten egg.
5. Bake in preheated oven until pastry is golden brown, 20 to 25 minutes.

Nutrition Facts

• calories976.3
• carbohydrateContent58.8 g
• cholesterolContent133.6 mg
• fatContent70.9 g
• fiberContent2.6 g
• proteinContent27.5 g
• saturatedFatContent25.2 g
• sodiumContent517.1 mg
• sugarContent1.1 g