Pesto-baked salmon

Just two ingredients and 18 minutes in the oven produce a fabulous fish dish that is perfect for a quick supper. This is good enough to serve for a supper with friends in my opinion.

Salmon fillets
dessert spoon of pesto

Place salmon fillets on a baking tray and spread the pesto on top of each and simply bake for 18 minutes or until the flesh flakes easily when cooked. Simple ..... tasty with salad or roasted vegetables.

This recipe is in the Patrick Holford - Low gi diet made easy cook book. He suggests serving the salmon with quinoa (keen-wah) and in his New Optimum Nutrition Bible on page 55 he says...

"Quinoa has been grown in South America for 5000 years and has a long-standing reputation as a source of strength for those working at high altitudes. Called the 'mother grain' because of its sustaining properties, it contains protein of a better quality than that of meat. Although known as a grain, quinoa is technicallly a seed. Like other seeds it's rich in essential fats, vitamins and minerals, providing almost four times as much calcium as wheat, plus exra iron, B vitamins and vitamin E. Quinoa is also low in fat; the majority of its oil is polyunsaturated, providing essential fatty acids. As such, quinoa is about as close to a perfect food as you can get"

Thats good enough for me and is available in the health food sections of major supermarkets. I think it is a bit like cous-cous, rather bland but there are plenty of ways to enjoy it, not least with a tablespoon of, you guessed it, homemade pesto!