Baked Salmon Stuffed with Spinach and Cream Cheese
From sparow64 16 years ago
- 12 minutes to make
- Serves 2
Baked salmon stuffed with cream cheese and spinach! We love it. I serve with a garlicky pasta and bread.
Ingredients
- 1 cup fresh spinach, chopped shopping list
- ¼ cup cream cheese, room temperature shopping list
- Pinch of nutmeg shopping list
- salt and pepper shopping list
- 2 8 oz. 1" thick salmon fillets with skin on shopping list
- olive oil shopping list
- ¾ cup fresh breadcrumbs shopping list
- 4 TB. melted butter shopping list
- ¼ cup grated parmesan cheese shopping list
How to make it
- Filling:
- Put spinach in a small saucepan with 1 tbsp of water.
- Cook 1-2 minutes just to wilt the spinach.
- Rinse with cold water and squeeze dry.
- Combine spinach with cream cheese and nutmeg.
- Season with salt and pepper.
- Salmon:
- Cut a ½-inch deep slit in the middle of each salmon fillet, with skin side down.
- From the bottom of the slit, cut the fillet horizontally about 1-inch in both directions to form a pocket for the stuffing.
- Fill with the cream cheese mixture.
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
- Brush a baking sheet with olive oil.
- Sprinkle salmon with salt and pepper.
- Combine breadcrumbs, butter and Parmesan cheese.
- Top each fillet with the crumbs, covering each top and pressing to adhere.
- Place salmon on baking sheet.
- Bake 12 minutes or until fish is opaque.
The Rating
Reviewed by 6 people-
This sounds very good! I know for sure my family will love this, thanks so much.
invisiblechef
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Sounds perfect.
chihuahua
in Sonoma County loved it
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Sounds delicious and I adore fresh salmon. Great post, dear Sparow - thanks so much!
lunasea
in Orlando loved it
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