Name: Smoked Trout (or Mackerel) Salad
Yield: Serves 2 or 3 as a lunch dish, or 4 as a starter
Cuisine: Irish
Ingredients: 2 tbsp mayonnaise; 2 heads little gem lettuce, or 2 small heads romaine, very finely chopped; 3½ oz (100 g) arugula; ½ tbsp finely grated fresh horseradish, or 1 tbsp prepared horseradish; 2 to 3 tbsp minced fresh chives; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil; 2 smoked trout fillets, or 1 smoked mackerel fillet; 3 tbsp buttermilk; juice of ½ lemon; 1 Granny Smith apple

Preparation info

Serves
2 or 3
as a lunch dish as a starter

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Home Made Summer

By Yvette van Boven

Published 2013

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Ingredients

For the dressing

3 tbsp buttermilk
2 tbsp mayonnaise
½

Method

Make the dressing

In a small bowl, whisk the buttermilk, mayonnaise, horseradish, and chives thoroughly, then trickle in the oil, whisking constantly. Season with salt and pepper.

Make the salad: Toss the arugula with the lettuce. Julienne the apple (leave the skin on), and sprinkle it with the lemon juice. Pull the fish from the bones and toss the fish and the apple with the