Warm Skate, Cod’s Roe and Bacon Salad

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4–6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Times Cookbook

By Frances Bissell

Published 1995

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Ingredients

  • 2 oz / 60 g smoked streaky bacon, derinded and cut into matchsticks
  • 12 oz /

Method

Fry the bacon until the fat runs, then remove with a slotted spoon, leaving the bacon fat in the frying pan. Slice the cod’s roe and fry it in the bacon fat. Meanwhile, poach or steam the skate until just cooked. The timing will depend on the thickness of the fish. When cooked, put it to one side until just cool enough to handle, then remove the fish in shreds from the cartilage. Divide the sal