SALMON WITH BUTTERED LEEKS AND YUZU DRESSING
SALMON WITH BUTTERED LEEKS AND YUZU DRESSING
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.