Smoked trout salad with horseradish sauce

Name: Smoked trout salad with horseradish sauce
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 2 h 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: juice of ½ lemon; 150 ml (5 fl oz) cream, for whipping; 4 slices white bread; 100 g (3¼ oz) baby spinach; 50 g (1¾ oz) rocket; 30 g (1 oz) horseradish cream; 220 g (7 oz) cream cheese; 1 cucumber; 125 g (4 oz) seedless green grapes; 2 large ripe tomatoes; 220 g (7 oz) smoked trout fillet, skinned

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
3 hr

Appears in

Salads

By Le Cordon Bleu

Published 2001

About

These elegant starters or light meals are topped with a spoonful of trout mousse and served with melba toasts. The trout mousse and horseradish sauce can be made a day in advance and chilled until needed.

Ingredients

220 g (7 oz) smoked trout fillet, skinned
220 g (7

Starter
Pescatarian

Method

Place the trout and cream cheese in a food processor with some salt and black pepper and blend until a smooth purée has formed, scraping down the sides of the bowl several times to ensure it combines evenly.
Cut the cucumber in half and peel one half, then remove the seeds with a small teaspoon and dice the flesh of the peeled cucumber very finely. Cut the grapes