Salmon With Lentils And Bacon

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 cup lentils
• 1 onion, minced
• 1 carrot, peeled finely chopped
• 4 slices orange rind, 2 inch long,orange part only
• 2 1/2 cups water
• 4 (8 ounce) salmon fillets, each cut crosswise into 3 pieces
• 6 slices bacon, each cut in half crosswise
• 1/4 cup whipping cream
• 1/4 cup snipped parsley
• 1/4 cup minced chives
• 2 tablespoons minced fresh tarragon

Recipe

• 1 in a large saucepan, combine lentils, onion, carrot, orange peel and water.
• 2 bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer 25 minutes or until lentils are tender, stirring now and then.
• 3 drain, reserving 3/4 c cooking liquid.
• 4 discard orange peel.
• 5 return lentil mixture to pan.
• 6 season with salt and pepper.
• 7 (can be made in advance).
• 8 cover and refrigerate keeping lentils and reserved cooking liquid separate.
• 9 preheat oven to 450^f.
• 10 place salmon on baking sheet.
• 11 wrap 1 bacon strip around each piece of salmon so that the bacon ends are on the bottom of the salmon.
• 12 bake until opaque in center, about 8 minutes.
• 13 in the meantime, add enough reserved cooking liquid to lentils to moisten.
• 14 mix in cream, parsley, chives and tarragon.
• 15 bring to a simmer.
• 16 spoon lentils onto plates and top each plate with 3 salmon pieces.
• 17 serve.