Supersize Me: Recreating Pret’s £13 Miso Salmon Super Plate At Home

This week Pret a Manger sparked uproar erstwhile it launched a scope of caller supersized salads. It came arsenic a consequence to what Pret said was a “shift successful what customers want from lunch”, though perchance not from their wallet, pinch nan premium salads priced £10-£13.

But really bully are they? And is it correct that they costs that much? I group disconnected to recreate nan miso salmon ace sheet astatine home. It’s nosy copying nan ingredients disconnected nan backmost of a packet to travel up pinch a recipe. With nan miso salmon plate, I’m impressed by nan original: nan sheet looks very pretty, and nan lightly smoked salmon fillet has an fantabulous texture. The tenderstem broccoli is just-blanched, and pleasingly crunchy.

It’s only erstwhile I comparison nan miso-orange dressing pinch my ain type that I realise rather really overmuch sweetener must person gone successful – ditto nan chilli aubergine, which is simply a spot gloopy (thanks, cornflour). But it’s a generous dish, and pinch a triple deed of macromolecule from nan salmon, soya beans and quinoa, I person nary of my accustomed sugar/chocolate cravings successful nan afternoon.

Based connected nan texture of nan Pret aubergine, I treated it for illustration nan Korean side-dish gaji-namul – steaming nan aubergine earlier stirring done nan dressing (minus nan cornflour). The homemade crockery is very adjacent successful taste, but wide my crockery tastes punchier, because I utilized freshly grated ginger and ail throughout, alternatively than pastes.

The important quality is nan cost: Pret’s crockery comes successful astatine £12.95, while my homemade 1 comes successful astatine astir £8.14 a person, aft factoring successful nan proportionality of each packet aliases jar utilized (I sewage astir of it from Sainsbury’s and nan much different aliases little wide disposable ingredients from Sous Chef). But if you haven’t already sewage shichimi togarashi, gochugaru (red capsicum flakes) aliases aonori seaweed successful your cupboard, past you’re mounting yourself backmost £11.65 conscionable connected “store-cupboard ingredients” you mightiness ne'er usage again. So £8-ish, positive an first outlay of £12 to recreate this astatine home, which is much than a spot steep.

The clincher? I’m not nan benignant of location navigator aliases nutrient writer who ever, ever wants you to person to usage 2 pans, a steamer, 2 sieves, 3 bowls and a baking tray to make a azygous dish. You mightiness not mind respective processes and much than an hr hands-on clip for a recipe, but I really do.

Ultimately, I’d opportunity nan Pret crockery is worthy £12.95, because there’s nary outlay connected costly store-cupboard ingredients and, fixed its value (it’s fresher than comparable connected nan spell post-workout meals). And it’d surely prevention maine £3-£4 connected cake/cookies/ice-cream successful nan afternoon.

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How to make a miso salmon super sheet astatine home

Prep Interminable
Cook 20 min
Cost £8.14 a portion
Serves 2

2 lightly smoked salmon fillets
2 teaspoons mixed seeds
2 teaspoons shichimi togarashi
½ spoon aonori seaweed
½ spoon oversea brackish flakes
½ tablespoonful rapeseed oil
50g mixed achromatic & achromatic quinoa
½ aubergine, sliced lengthways and trim into 1cm 4th moons

1 clove garlic, peeled and grated
2 tsp gochugaru (red capsicum powder)
¼ tsp chilli powder
20ml rapeseed oil
5ml brownish atom vinegar
½ tsp sugar
½ tsp oversea brackish flakes
6 stems tenderstem broccoli
4 heaped tbsp edamame beans
2 handfuls mixed crockery leaves
1 ripe avocado, finely sliced and dressed pinch a small citrus juice
15ml rapeseed oil
15g miso paste (I utilized red)
10ml brownish atom vinegar
½ tsp finely grated ginger
½ tsp finely grated garlic
½ tsp sugar
Pinch chilli powder
Pinch oversea brackish flakes
½ lime, trim into quarters to serve

Heat nan oven to 200C (180C fan)/gas 6. Put nan salmon connected a lined baking tray, and scatter pinch nan mixed seeds, shichimi togarashi, aonori seaweed and oversea brackish flakes. Drizzle pinch nan oil, past cook for 12-14 minutes, until conscionable cooked through.

Boil nan quinoa successful a cookware of boiling h2o for 20 minutes, past drain good and time off to steam-dry for 10 minutes.

Put nan aubergine successful a steamer group complete boiling water, and steam for 8 minutes, until conscionable cooked through. While nan aubergine is steaming, operation nan garlic, gochugaru, chilli powder, rapeseed oil, brownish atom vinegar, sweetener and oversea brackish flakes. As soon arsenic nan aubergine is done, operation it done nan chilli dressing and group speech for 10 minutes.

Put nan broccoli successful a cookware aliases ample vessel of boiling water, time off to blanch for a minute, past drain well.

Whisk each nan dressing ingredients. Put nan crockery leaves successful a bowl, past put nan salmon, tenderstem, avocado, aubergine, quinoa, edamame and lime 4th connected top, and service nan dressing alongside.