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Derry's seared salmon, mushroom and tomato crumble, lemon butter sauce

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Derry's seared salmon, mushroom and tomato crumble, lemon butter sauce

Ingredients

Salmon and Crumb

  • 4x Salmon filets, about 200g each.
  • 75g chopped mushrooms
  • 8 cherry tomatoes quartered and seeds removed, then chopped
  • 2 Shallots peeled and diced
  • 1 Garlic clove crushed
  • 1 teaspoon dill chopped
  • 1 teaspoon thyme chopped
  • 100g breadcrumbs
  • 50g butter
  • 2 large handfuls of spinach

Butter Sauce

  • 150g soft butter cut into squares.
  • 100ml White Wine.
  • 100ml Cream.
  • 2 Shallots peeled and diced.

Method

Salmon and Crumb

  1. Heat a frying pan over medium heat, add 2 tablespoons vegetable oil.
  2. Season salmon.
  3. Place salmon skin side down, cook for 3/4 minutes, turn and cook for a further 3/4 minutes.
  4. Remove from pan, add a knob of butter.
  5. Put baby spinach in pan and toss for 1 minute.
  6. Heat a pan over medium heat, add the butter and gently sweat off the shallot, add mushrooms cook for 2 minutes, add garlic, tomato, thyme.
  7. Season with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, add breadcrumbs and dill, toss in pan and gently cook for 2 minutes.

Butter Sauce

  1. Place shallots in a pot with the wine, reduce by half, add cream and gently simmer for 2 minutes.
  2. Slowly whisk in the butter.
  3. Season with salt.
  4. Place sauce on plate, then spinach and salmon. Top with the crumb mixture.

Tip: Buy your salmon from the fish counter in the supermarket instead of prepackaged.