Duo Salmon Flower Starter

160113 Salmon Flower-1026
This recipe is inspired by a Cordon Bleu recipe. Easy to make but requires a bit of time. Dairy free and low fodmap.

Serves 6

550 g salmon, skin and boneless
2 tbsp lemon juice
Salt and pepper

6 tomatoes

Dressing:
100 ml watercress
30 ml red wine vinegar
1 tsp Dijon mustard
100 ml olive oil
Salt and pepper

Green part of 2 spring onions, finely chopped

Mixed leaves (including rocket salad)

140 g smoked salmon

  1. Oven at 180C
  2. Wrap the salmon in foil with lemon juice and seasoning and bake in oven 12 minutes (or until done)
  3. Cut out the top, inner, hard part of the core on each tomatoe. Then make a shallow cross through the skin at the bottom. Dip briefly (45 seconds) in boiling water and then transfer to ice cold water. The skin will have curled up slightly and can now be easily removed.
  4. Peel the tomatoes (set aside some of the peel to be used as decorations), cut into 8 wedges. Cut out the seed so that only 8 “petals” remain. Set aside.
  5. Combine all ingredients for the dressing and run in a blender until smooth
  6. In a bowl, mix the fresh salmon with finely chopped spring onion (green part) and 6 tbsp of the dressing
  7. In a bowl, toss the mixed leaf salad with remainder of the the dressing
  8. Cut the smoked salmon into thin strips.
  9. To assembly as a flower: Place some salad on a serving plate. Create a small ball of cooked salmon on top of the salad, possibly using a small round mold. Line the base of the ball and 2 cm up the sides with smoked salmon strips and then, as the outer part of the flower, place 8 tomato petals (overlapping each other) around each mold. Take a small piece of peel and press down in the middle of the peel on the top of the crab flower.

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