Bacon-wrapped salmon with leeks and garlic butter

Such an easy dish to prepare but with real wow factor. For non-bacon eaters, you could wrap it with long ribbons of courgette.

Easy/prepare ahead • ready in 1 hr 10 mins • Serves 10-12

1tbsp olive oil

2 large leeks, finely sliced

10-12 long rashers smoked streaky bacon 50g garlic butter

2 sides of salmon (around 800g each), skinned you will need cocktail sticks

1 Heat the oil in a sauté pan then cook the leeks for 20 mins until softened.

Set aside. now stretch out the bacon with the back of a large knife. They need to be long enough for each one to wrap around the salmon. Lay out on a chopping board in a block, side by side. Put a fillet of salmon in the centre of them, skinned-side down. Spread the leeks on the salmon and dot along with the garlic butter. Put the second fillet of salmon on top of the leeks to make a “sandwich”, skinned-side up.

2 Heat the oven to 200C, gas 6. Wrap the bacon over the salmon and secure with cocktail sticks – otherwise they curl up in the oven. Put onto a shallow roasting tray, double-lined with oiled foil. Roast the salmon for 45 mins. If the bacon hasn’t crisped up enough, just pop it under the grill for a few mins.

3 Remove the cocktail sticks, and serve the salmon with new potatoes and a crunchy green salad.

Per serving: 477-398 calories, 35-29g fat (9-8g saturated), 1.5-1g carbohydrate >>