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- Course: Main Course
- Skill Level: Moderate
- Cost: Moderate
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Can be made ahead of time.
Scandinavian-Style Rare-Cooked Salmon with Fava Beans and Peas
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Eric: If you love rare salmon, this is the recipe for you. Make it in early spring when the fava beans are at their most tender.
Maguy: If you don't like your salmon rare, don't bother with this recipe—it's not going to taste good to you. But if you do like it, write to Alan Richman, the GQ guru. He'll tell you he thinks it's one of our best dishes.
Yield :
Makes 4 servings
Ingredients
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, thinly sliced, plus additional for greasing the casseroles
- 4 (7-ounce) very fresh salmon fillets
- Fine sea salt, to taste
- Freshly ground white pepper, to taste
- ¾ cup shelled small peas
- 24 shelled fava beans, skinned
- 12 snow peas, cut across into thin strips
- 4 teaspoons julienned bacon
- 4 scallions, top 1 inch only (white), quartered lengthwise
- ½ cup shredded iceberg lettuce
- 2 cups Fish Fumet
- 4 small sprigs fresh mint, plus 8 leaves, chopped
Directions
1. Butter the casseroles and set them aside. Trim and discard the thin belly section from the salmon fillets and season the fillets on both sides with salt and pepper. Place the salmon in the center of the casseroles and surround the fillets, in this order, with the peas, fava beans, snow peas, bacon, scallions, and lettuce. Season the vegetables with salt and pepper. Lay the butter slices over the vegetables. (The recipe can be made to this point up to several hours ahead; cover and refrigerate.)
2. Pour the fish fumet into the dishes and place each dish on top of a stove burner turned to high heat. Bring the fumet to a boil. Lower the heat to medium-high and cook for 5 minutes, until a metal skewer inserted into the center of the salmon for 5 seconds feels barely warm when touched to your lip; the salmon will be rare.
3. Sprinkle the chopped mint over the vegetables and lay the mint sprigs on the salmon. Put the casseroles on serving plates and serve immediately.
Notes
Special equipment:
4 individual, shallow, flame-proof casseroles
© 1998 Eric Ripert and Maguy Le Coze
Note from Cookstr's Editors
Nutritional information includes 1/8 teaspoon of added salt per serving, but does not include Fish Fumet. For nutritional information on Fish Fumet, please follow the link above.
Nutritional Information
Nutrients per serving (% daily value)
652kcal (33%)
85mg (9%)
29mg (48%)
135mcg RAE (5%)
1192mg
127mg
50g
4g
10g
23g
141mg (47%)
432mg (18%)
14g (68%)
39g (61%)
4mg (23%)
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