Salmon baked in coarse sea salt and vegetables, a wholesome meal for the family. – AFP Relaxnews, December 21, 2015.Try your hand at triple Michelin-starred Éric Frechon's, chef at the iconic Bristol hotel in Paris, recipe for salmon baked in coarse sea salt and vegetables cooked with olive oil, which is served at his own restaurant Lazare in the capital.
Serving: 4 pax
Difficulty: Medium
Preparation time: 35 min
Cooking time: 10 min
Ingredients:
For the fish
4 salmon fillets with the skin on weighing 180 g each
1 kg of coarse sea salt
For the vegetables:
100g of carrots
100g of snow peas
1 small zucchini
100g of turnips
200g of fresh peas
1 lemon confit
10cl of olive oil
Salt and pepper
Method:
1. Preheat the oven to 180°C (Gas mark 6).
2. Peel the carrots and the turnips, then dice finely. Wash the zucchini, wipe it, cut off its ends, then dice it to the same size as the carrots and turnips. If necessary, remove the stalks and trim the snow peas. Shell the fresh peas.
3. Bring a saucepan of salted water to the boil, and drop the vegetables in one after the other so that they are cooked al dente (approximately five minutes for the carrots, turnips and fresh peas, four minutes for the snow peas, and 1 minute for the zucchini). As soon as they are cooked, take them out of the pan with a slotted spoon and rinse them in cold water: this enables the vegetables to keep their color and crunchiness. Let them cool.
4. Rinse and wipe the salmon fillets, making sure there are no bones. Half-fill a high-sided earthenware dish with coarse sea salt. Arrange the salmon fillets on top, skin side down, then place in the oven. Cook for four or five minutes. To test if the salmon is cooked, stick a knife into the thickest part – if it's warm it's done.
5. Dice the lemon confit finely. Put the olive oil in a frying pan, heat on high and add the vegetables, the lemon confit, and season with salt and pepper. Mix with a spatula to make sure they are well coated with oil, add a little water and heat for 2 minutes, during which time they should become beautifully shiny.
6. Put a salmon fillet on each plate after having removed the skin delicately, and surround with the glazed vegetables. Serve immediately. – AFP Relaxnews, December 21, 2015.
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