SALMON WITH BUTTERED LEEKS AND YUZU DRESSING
Ingredients
- 25g/1oz butter
- 4 small leeks
- washed and thinly sliced
- 4 x 125g/4½oz salmon fillets
- skin removed
- 2cm/¾in piece fresh root ginger
- peeled and grated
- 2 garlic cloves
- crushed
- 1 small red chilli
- seeds removed and very finely chopped
- 2 tbsp yuzu juice
- 4 tbsp light olive oil
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- small bunch coriander
- leaves only
- pink radishes
- thinly sliced using a vegetable peeler
Directions
- Preheat the oven 200C/180C Fan/Gas 6.
- Heat the butter in a large frying pan over a medium–high heat. Add the leeks and fry for a few minutes. Lower the heat and cook for 15 minutes or until soft but not coloured. Tip into an ovenproof dish or roasting tin.
- Put the ginger
- garlic
- chilli
- yuzu juice
- oil and salt and pepper into a bowl and stir. Reserve 2 tablespoons of the dressing. Sit the salmon fillets on top of the leeks
- season with salt and pepper and spoon the dressing over so the ginger and chilli is on top.
- Bake for 12–15 minutes
- or until the fish is just cooked.
- Toss the coriander and radishes in the reserved dressing. Spoon the leeks on to plates and top with the salmon. Pile the radish and coriander on top of the salmon.

