Salmon in Creamy Tarragon Sauce

Name: Salmon in Creamy Tarragon Sauce
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: 4 salmon fillets; 1 tbsp butter; 1 tbsp olive oil; 2 shallots, finely chopped; 250 g wild mushrooms; Salt and pepper; Salt and pepper; ½ tbsp Dijon mustard; 2 tsp cornflour; 150 ml vegetable stock; 1 tbsp white wine vinegar; 250 ml crème fraîche; 2 tbsp roughly chopped tarragon leaves

Preparation info

Serves:
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
20 min

Appears in

Anna's Family Kitchen

By Anna Stanford

Published 2022

About

This dish is quick enough to knock up as a midweek meal, but the beautifully flavoured tarragon sauce makes it decadent enough to serve for a dinner party too. Serve with jacket potatoes, roasties, skinny fries, rice or you can even flake the salmon into the sauce and stir it through pasta.

Ingredients

4 salmon fillets
1 tbsp butter
1 tbsp olive oil

Dinner
Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free

Method

Remove the skin from the salmon fillets while you heat the butter in a non-stick pan. Add the salmon fillets to the pan and cook for 2 minutes on each side before transferring to a warm plate.

Add the oil and shallots to the same pan, cooking for 2-3 minutes before adding the mushrooms. Season well with salt and pepper. Sauté the mushrooms for an additional 2 minutes.

Combine th