Salmon Steaks With Flavourful Veggies Alongside

Ingredients

• 2 salmon steaks, nice and thick
• 6 ounces green beans, young and tender
• 1 cup cherry tomatoes, ripe and sweet (or use the small grape tomatoes)
• 1/4 cup black olives, pitted
• 1/4 cup basil leaves, roughly chopped (or use 2 teaspoons dried)
• 2-3 anchovy fillets, chopped (as they come, don't rinse)
• 2-3 tablespoons lemon juice
• 4 tablespoons olive oil
• salt
• 1 teaspoon black pepper, coarsely ground

Directions

1. 1

   Set oven at 375 deg F/190 deg C.

2. 2

   Cook the green beans quickly until still quite firm -- sort of par-boiled only.

3. 3

   Put in a bowl, and mix with everything else up to the olive oil. Add some flaky sea salt (just a pinch) and mix inches.

4. 4

   Salt and pepper the salmon steaks.

5. 5

   Season the fish with salt and the pepper. Put the fish steaks in a smallish oven dish with the skin side up.

6. 6

   Put the vegetable mixture close against the fish, heaped -- that's why you need a small enough dish, so everything lies tightly together and can't spread.

7. 7

   Bake for (about) 15 minutes in the preheated oven. If a fork or skewer penetrates the fish easily, it's done, and take it out quickly. Fish is quickly overdone.

8. 8

   The juices from the olives and tomatoes should help season the fish.