Roast Salmon with Potatoes, Sweet Chili and Pickled Cucumber

ROAST SALMON WITH CHARLOTTE POTATOES, SWEET CHILLI AND PICKLED CUCUMBER - POST

If you are a little peckish this Wednesday why not try a roast salmon? Incredibly tasty without being overly heavy, this recipe is the ideal dinner option on warmer days. 

Serves 4

Cooking time: 30 minutes 

What You’ll Need:

Salmon:

  • 4 x 6oz fillets of salmon skin on
  • 100ml chilli dipping sauce
  • 4 tbsp olive oil
  • seasoning

Salad:

  •  400g Charlotte potatoes
  • 1 small white turnip
  • 1/2 cucumber
  • 1 peeled shallot
  • 100ml white wine vinegar
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 1/2 tbsp salt
  • 100g radishes
  • 40g watercress
  • 10g coriander leaves

What To Do:

Salmon:

  • Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas mark 7.
  • First place the washed charlotte potatoes into a pan and fill with cold water
  • Add a pinch of salt and place on the stove on a high heat. Bring to the boil, and then simmer for 15 minutes.
  • Place a sauté pan on the stove and when hot add 2 tbsp olive oil, season the salmon fillets and seal on the skin side. When coloured, place on an oven tray and put in the oven for 10 minutes.

Salad:

  • Thinly slice the turnip and shallot using a mandolin or a sharp knife and using a melon baller, ball the cucumber then put them in a heatproof bowl. 
  • Cut the radishes in half, and add to the bowl.
  • Put the white wine vinegar, sugar and salt in a pan and heat to a gentle simmer until the salt and sugar have dissolved.
  • Pour over the turnip, shallot, radish and cucumber and set aside to pickle for 5 minutes, then drain off the pickling liquid
  • Drain the potatoes and cut into 3 lengthways  then pan fry in a little olive (or rapeseed) oil to colour and crisp edges and leave to one side.
  • Place the salmon in the centre of the plate, arrange the potatoes around the edge with the pickled vegetables.
  • Drizzle the chilli dipping sauce around the edge and garnish with the watercress leaves and coriander.

 

Recipe from Many Faces of Potatoes. 

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