Homecooked Salmon (by Jamie)

Directions

1. TO PREPARE THE SALMON:
2. Preheat your oven to 200ºC/400ºF/gas 6
3. Trim your beans by cutting off the stalk ends but leave the wispy tips on
4. Put the beans into a large pan of boiling water with a pinch of salt and cook for 3 to 4 minutes
5. Halve one of the lemons
6. Get yourself just under a metre of kitchen foil and fold it in half to give you two layers
7. Drain and put half of the green beans in the middle of the foil
8. Lay a salmon fillet, skin-side down, across the beans and spoon over a good tablespoon of green pesto (see Classic basil pesto)
9. Drizzle with olive oil, squeeze over the juice from one of the lemon halves and season with salt and pepper
10. Pull the foil edges together and scrunch them up to seal the parcel
11. Repeat these steps to make your second salmon fillet parcel and place both foil parcels on a baking tray
12. TO COOK THE SALMON:
13. Put the baking tray into your hot oven and cook for 15 to 20 minutes, depending on the size of your fillets
14. Remove the tray from the oven and let it stand for a minute before carefully unwrapping and checking that the salmon is cooked through
15. Either serve the foil parcels on plates as they are, or carefully unwrap them before serving
16. Cut the remaining lemon in half and serve on the side for squeezing over
17. Nice served with new potatoes, rice (see Fluffy rice) or chunks of crusty bread