Jamie Oliver's Salmon In A Bag Is A Quick Way To Try Delicious Fish Combos

Selling over 48 million cookbooks worldwide, Jamie Oliver is a culinary icon. His easy-to-follow recipes that include seasonal produce or long-forgotten pantry items have saved our tedious dinner plates time and time again. Yet his glory days are not over. We were fascinated by how he seasoned meat with more meat, and we are now transfixed by how he's producing a quick medley of complementing flavors in a bag. He wasn't wrong then, and he isn't wrong now.

It's healthy, it's quick, and it's delicious. In his "One Simple One-Pan Wonders," Oliver's salmon in a bag demonstrates to the world that cooking can be effortless. This beginner-friendly technique inspires not only those scared to try cooking fish but also those wanting to create and experiment with steaming new flavor combinations. Here we delve deeper into this remarkable formula with tips on making unique combinations.

Of course, baking salmon in foil is a great way to achieve a flaky, juicy dish, but Jamie Oliver takes this simple technique further by suggesting that you can steam other ingredients inside the bag with this wonderful fish. Oliver combines a sauce of chickpeas, almonds, and roasted peppers with sliced chorizo and salmon filets. This all goes into a foil bag and is placed into the oven, and it takes only 15 minutes to steam cook before it's ready. Does this sound too easy? Well, cooking doesn't have to be technical or challenging; if you're savvy about the ingredients you use and how you cook them together, you can create magnificence through simplicity.

It's all about understanding that the layers of ingredients placed into the homemade foil bag mix once steamed. When the foil envelope goes into the oven and begins to cook, the sauce boils, and the condensation rains down the saucy juices onto the fish. This is also reflected in how Oliver describes slicing small slits into the salmon skin and filling them with fresh herbs. When steamed, these herbs will drip all their fabulous flavors into the fish, sauce, and chorizo mix. The salmon becomes imbued with herbs and meaty chorizo notes, while the chorizo takes on a slight sweetness from the roasted peppers. It sounds delightful.

Food is all about exploration, and this bag trick is just another method of travel. If you're unsure about chickpeas or are bored of salmon, why not try other combinations? Jamie Oliver demonstrates the breadth of flavors that can be united inside this bag, including lime leaves, lemongrass, and ginger blended with Sea Bass for an Asian twist. But this is only the beginning.

Consider trying a Mediterranean take on this, using white fish like halibut or haddock and adding tomatoes, olives, and fennel to the bag. With a splash of white wine, a sauce is created in the bag from all the juicy goodness of the ingredients. How can you say no? If you want to experiment with other fish, flounder is another excellent option. It has a slightly sweeter taste but still retains that dreamy flakiness. Foil-baked flounder can be cooked with mushrooms, asparagus, and tomatoes or simply steamed with garlic and lemon. As you can see, this salmon-in-a-bag recipe is genius; as a bonus, you save majorly on the washing up! How can you possibly resist trying this out?