Salmon with a Salted Tomato and Herb Salad

Name: Salmon with a Salted Tomato and Herb Salad
Yield: Serves Four as a Starter
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon chopped mixed herbs (tarragon, chervil, basil, chives, coriander); 1 tablespoon lime juice; 4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, plus a trickle for cooking; coarse sea salt and pepper; 4 × 100 g (4 oz) salmon fillets, skinned; 15 g (½ oz) butter; 16-20 cherry tomatoes

Preparation info

Serves
Four
as a Starter

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Keeping it Simple

By Gary Rhodes

Published 2005

About

This recipe is a starter, but adding a green salad and warm new potatoes would make it a main course. The selection of herbs also doesn’t have to be as great as I’ve chosen.

Ingredients

16-20 cherry tomatoes
coarse sea salt and pepper
4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, plus a trickle for cookin

Europe
United Kingdom
Dinner
Starter
Pescatarian
Gluten-free
England

Method

Halve the tomatoes horizontally, seasoning the cut sides with a generous sprinkling of sea salt and a twist of pepper.
Whisk together the olive oil, lime juice and herbs, seasoning with salt and pepper.
Pat the salmon dry on kitchen paper. Trickle a little oil into a non-stick frying pan over a medium heat. Add the butter, and once bubbling, put in the fis