Poached Salmon with Beetroot

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
A Feast of Fish

By Ian McAndrew

Published 1989

  • About

An unusual combination? I think so too, but it does work, honestly!

Ingredients

  • 4 X 150 g/5 oz fillets of salmon
  • 4 baby beetroots (with their tops), weighing about 25 g/1 oz each

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas Mark 4.

Scrub the baby beetroots clean and cut their tops back to about 2.5 cm/1 inch long. Place them in a pan, add the vinegar and cover with cold water. Bring to the boil and simmer until cooked – this will take about 15 minu