Seafood recipe: Seared Salmon on crab and potato rosti

Seared Salmon on crab and potato rosti

Ingredients​

• 25g butter
• 8oz Salmon fillet
• salt and pepper

For the potato rosti

• 1 small potato grated
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons white and dark crab meat

For the lemon hollandaise sauce

• 25ml white wine vinegar
• 2 egg yolks
• 2 teaspoons lemon juice
• 50ml double cream

Method​

1. Preheat oven at 200c

2. Take a non-stick frying pan and melt butter

3. Season the salmon fillet and place in the hot pan skin side down, cook gently for 2-3 minutes on each side to sear and finish in the oven for 5 minutes

For the potato rosti

1. Preheat oven at 150C

2. Grate 1 small potato and squeeze the potato dry

3. Bind the grated potato together with the crab meat, 1 beaten egg, salt and pepper and shape into discs by hand

4. Place the rosti's in the oven and cook for 30-40 minutes

Lemon hollandaise sauce

1. Put the 25mls of white wine vinegar in a hot pan and reduce until half of the vinegar is left

2. Beat 2 egg yolks in a bowl over a pan over simmering hot water (bain-marie) then slowly whisk in 2 teaspoons of lemon juice and 50mls of double cream until sauce thickens

3. Place the potato rosti on a plate with the salmon fillet and cover with the hollandaise sauce. Serve with blanched green beans (optional)