Label Rouge Salmon from Movenpick Hotel Hanoi
with culinary expert Hollenstein from Movenpick Hotel Hanoi
The Sunshine State’s Farmers Markets are legendary for their wonderful varieties of freshly-harvested vegetables. We combine a colourful bouquet of baby veg in refreshing lemon vinaigrette to complement glazed salmon, cooked to perfection in olive oil.
Ingredients: serves 4
4 x 150g salmon fillets, skinned
olive oil to taste
2 carrots
1 kohlrabi
1 tbs chives
1/2 leek
4 baby leeks
4 baby fennel
8 baby beetroot with greens
12 asparagus tips, green
8 baby carrots
1 mini pumpkin
8 cherry tomatoes
20 snow peas
1 lemon, juice and zest
4 tbs olive oil
1 bunch lemon thyme
Sea salt, black & pink pepper to taste
For the horseradish cream:
Cream, horseradish, sea salt, black pepper to taste
Culinary expert Hollenstein from Movenpick Hotel Hanoi
Method:
For the salmon:
- Preheat the oven to 60oC. Lightly sprinkle the salmon fillets with sea salt. - Fill an ovenproof dish with olive oil and heat the oil to around 50oC.
- Place the salmon fillets in the oil. It is important that the salmon fillet is completely covered in olive oil. Cook for 18-20 mins.
For the vegetables & vinaigrette:
- Wash leeks, carrots and kohlrabi and dice into small cubes.
- Blanch and rinse with cold water. Finely chop the chives and mix everything together. Set aside.
- Blanch rest of vegetables, rinse in iced water, drain and dab dry.
- Make a vinaigrette using olive oil, lemon juice, lemon zest, lemon thyme, sea salt and some black and pink pepper.
- Heat all vegetables in the vinaigrette.
For the horseradish cream:
- Beat the heavy cream until stiff.
- Wash, peel and grate the horseradish and mix with cream.
- Season to taste with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.
Serving:
- Drain the salmon fillets and arrange on a preheated plate. Position the vegetables around.
- Grate over some fresh horseradish. Serve vinaigrette and the horseradish cream alongside in a separate bowl.
You can sample the dish at Mövenpick Hotel Hanoi, 83A Lý Thường Kiệt St, Hoàn Kiếm Dist, Hà Nội. Tel: +84 24 38 22 28 00 ext 6133.
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