Salmon Carpaccio – key
Serves 2. Prep: 15 min Cook: 10 min
Ingredients:
2 salmon fillets 1
2 decent-sized 2 courgettes, approx 3 200g 4/ 200 grams / 200 grammes / 7oz / 7 ounces 5 in total
Toasted sesame oil
Sweet chilli dipping sauce
Soy sauce
Tin foil
Heat 6 the oven 7 to 220oC 8 / 428F 9 / gas mark 7 10. Cut the salmon in half 11, slicing 12 across 13 the middle, then cut four or five thin slices 14 lengthways 15 from each half.Trim 16 the courgettes, cut them in half then slice them down the halves 17 to make three or four slices per half 18. Cut four sheets 19 of tin foil, approx 25cm square / 25cm2 20 / 10" / 10 inches sq / square 21 per fillet 22.
Notes
Did you remember to write the silent ‘l‘ in salmon?
A fillet is a boneless piece of meat or fish. We say ‘a fillet of chicken’, or ‘some chicken fillet’. To fillet – verb – is to cut a piece of meat or fish from the bones
decent-sized – adj – reasonably / fairly big. ‘Decent’ is often used in food meaning ‘not too small’.
g is the abbreviation for gram / grammes, and oz is short for imperial ounces. 16 ounces = one pound (1lb = 0.4536kg). 1 ounce / 1 oz = 28.5g.
approx 200g / 7oz = approximately 200 grams / grammes / 7 ounces
tin foil = thin aluminium baking / cooking foil, used for wrapping food
Did you spell ‘oven‘ correctly?
Temperatures: In Britain we often use Fahrenheit, shortened to F in recipes. We could not set the temperature at 428oF, it would have to be 430oF!
Half is used several times in the singular in this recipe, and once in the plural – halves
Did you remember to spell slicing with no ‘e‘, but slices with an ‘e’?
across – adv / preposition
lengthways – in the direction of the longer / longest side. We also say ‘sideways‘ and ‘widthways‘.
trim – verb – to make something tidier or more level by cutting a small amount off it
You might go to have your hair cut and ask for ‘a trim‘ (noun).
per half / per fillet – we often use this to mean for each – eg per person
Spread out 23 two sheets of foil 24. Smear 25 half the sheets with oil, lay out 26 about one third 27 of the courgette and top 28 with one third of the salmon, smear with a splash 29 of chilli sauce 30 and soy sauce 30 and a few drops of oil 31, then repeat the layers 32 twice. Cover 33 with the second sheet of foil and tuck 34 the edges 35 in, folding snugly 36 but not too tightly 37. Place on a middle shelf 38 in the oven and cook for 10 min 39. Serve the parcels 40 with rice.
We say a sheet of foil – clingfilm / greaseproof paper
25cm sq / square (25cm2) / 10" sq / square (10"sq2)." is the shortened form of imperial inches
smear – spread a liquid or a thick substance over a surface. If you smear jam on a piece of bread you are doing so without taking particular care’ Often ‘smear‘ means something is rather dirty or untidy – if you smear cleaning fluid on the windows they would look messy, untidy, not smart.
top – verb – cover; put sth on the top of
We sometimes use a splash for a small amount of liquid
Sauce – did you get the spelling correct?
drops of oil – did you notice the ‘v’ sound in ‘of’?
a layer is a thin level amount of sth, often different from what is above or below it.
tuck sth in – to fold sth in
to tuck in is also informally used of food meaning to start eating. eg "Tuck in – don’t wait for me!" "He really tucked into the chocolate cake, didn’t he?"
If something is snug – adj – (for example your bed, or an armchair) it is warm, comfortable and protected. A snug fit means a comfortable fit.
snugly – adv – this describes how an action is done in a neat, attractive way that makes it look pleasing / or you feel pleased.
tightly – the opposite of loosely
shelf – another world like ‘half‘ ‘self‘ or ‘leaf‘ that takes a ‘v‘ in the plural shelves
10 min = 10 minutes
Did you spell ‘parcel‘ right?