Alterations
My husband and children don't like eggs, so I omitted these from the recipe when I made it. Though I did brush the pastry with whisked egg, as per the recipe, as I figured they couldn't object to something they didn't realise they were eating!! I also left out the capers as no one in my family really likes them.
The hot-smoked salmon fillets that I used had cracked black pepper on them. I used the same salmon the first time I made this recipe and it tasted lovely so I decided to stick with it.
Top tips - lemon basmati rice
The first time I made this recipe (about a month and half ago) I couldn't find the lemon basmati rice the recipe needs when I was doing my grocery shopping. I did however find Martha Stewart's recipe for making lemon basmati rice on her website, and as I had all the ingredients in I decided to make my own.
After making the lemon rice, I had a lot more rice than the pastry parcel recipe called for, so I once again took to the Internet to check to see if it was possible to freeze cooked rice. The short answer is - you can, but you need to cool it quickly. For more information on how to freeze and defrost rice click on the link.
This morning I lifted my puff pastry and rice from the freezer to allow them to defrost for use in the dinner later in the day. It is possible to re-heat the rice from frozen in the microwave, but I decided to not to do this so that I didn't have to wait for the rice to cool before I mixed it with the other ingredients. The rice tasted fine when defrosted and reheated.
After seeing how straight forward it was to freeze, defrost and re-heat the rice I think I might double up on portions of rice that I am boiling in the future in order to freeze half of it.
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