Salmon Wrapped in Straw Potatoes with Fennel Sauce

Name: Salmon Wrapped in Straw Potatoes with Fennel Sauce
Ingredients: Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 4 salmon fillets or steaks; ¼ pint (150 ml) fish stock; 2 tablespoons olive oil; A bunch of fennel, chopped; 4 oz (110 g) butter; 4 medium potatoes, peeled and cut into julienne strips; 6 tablespoons lemon juice

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Potato Year

By Lucy Madden

Published 2015

About

This is a thoroughly elegant dish and one that could be accomplished by that unenviable figure, the cook/hostess, since most of the preparation is done in advance.

Ingredients

4 medium potatoes, peeled and cut into julienne strips
6 tablespoons lemon juice
Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Fish course
Pescatarian
October
Wedding/Marriage

Method

Place the potato strips in a bowl with the lemon juice and season. Press around the salmon fillets or steaks, wrap in a damp cloth and refrigerate for at least a half hour.

Heat the oil and gently cook the fish for 5 minutes or so on each side.

Meanwhile have ready the fennel blended with the butter (again, well chilled) and just before serving put little pieces of this butter i