Parchment Salmon with Corn, Cherry Tomatoes & Compound Butter

Cooking fish in parchment paper is a fool proof way to get a quick, healthy dinner on the table - without making your whole kitchen smell like fish! When you cook fish this way you're steaming it, and everything is contained in the parchment packet (ie no mess pan frying fish on the stove!).

This version gets a summer update with fresh corn, cherry tomatoes and basil, topped off with compound butter. You won't use all the compound butter for this dish, but you can refrigerate it for a week or freeze it for a month and use it on everything from fish, steak, or even in a baked potato!

If you're making this dish for two, you could do it all in one piece of parchment. Otherwise, you can portion out the fish and make individual packets, which is what I like to do if I'm making this dinner for friends at a dinner party - that way everyone gets their own little dinner inside a parchment packet.

I find that when I add in as many vegetables to the packet as I do here, I don't really need another side dish. That said, a few slices of really good bread go extremely well with this dinner, because you can dip the bread in all the delicious juice inside the parchment. Serves 2 for dinner, but scales up very easily to feed a bigger crowd. This one is also gluten free!