salmon topped with star anise on a bed of asparagus

Last weekend I was in asparagus.  On Saturday the salad with strawberries, on Sunday a self made combination with salmon and star anise.  The idea for the marinated salmon comes from a completely different recipe.

Ingredients (2 persons):

• 2 salmon steaks (about 150g each)
• 10 asparagus
• Cherry tomatoes
• Baked potatoes
• Rosemary
• Star anise
• 20 grams of fresh ginger
• 20 ml of soy sauce
• 20ml oyster sauce
• 10 ml dry sherry or rice wine
• 2 star anise
• A clove of garlic

Directions:

• Cut the ginger and garlic into fine pieces.
• Mix the soy sauce, oyster sauce and sherry and add the chopped herbs to it.
• Marinate the salmon steaks on all sides with the sauce.
• Pop the star anise in the sauce, cover it and put the salmon marinade for 4-6 hours in the refrigerator.
• Peel the potatoes, cut them into wedges and cook them.
• Cut the cherry tomatoes in half.
• Peel the asparagus and cut its bottom pieces.
• Preheat the oven to 180 ° C.
• Cook the asparagus for 10 minutes.
• Cook the potatoes with rosemary.
• Remove the salmon from the refrigerator, remove the ginger and garlic pieces, put the star anise on the salmon and wrap in aluminum foil.
• Bake the salmon for about 10 minutes in the oven. Then turn the oven off and let cook further in the film.
• Bake the tomatoes with the marinade
• Arrange all the plates and serve.

Since I didn’t work based on a recipe, the quantities are rather an indication. Actually I just messed around a bit, but the result tasted really very well 🙂