A note on the pesto: When our basil leaves are ready to be picked, we make enough to freeze. I made this dish once with defrosted pesto and once with freshly made. It came out well both times. The recipe I based this on suggested pesto in a jar from the supermarket.
Ingredients
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
Line a baking pan with foil or parchment paper, and place the salmon filet on it.
Mix the breadcrumbs and cheese together.
Spread the pesto on the salmon. Top it with the breadcrumb mixture.
Bake for 10 minutes or until done to your likeness. Baking time will vary depending on the thickness of the salmon and your own tastes.
Do you like basil? If so, what's you favorite way to use basil?
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Maya Corrigan writes the Five-Ingredient Mysteries featuring café manger Val and her live-wire grandfather solving murders in a Chesapeake Bay town. Maya lives in a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. Before writing crime fiction, she taught American literature, writing, and detective fiction at Northern Virginia Community College and Georgetown University. When not reading and writing, she enjoys theater, travel, trivia, cooking, and crosswords.Halloween is on the horizon . . .
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