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Navarin of Salmon


Title: Navarin of Salmon
Categories: Main course, Here's one , Earlier2
Yield: 4 servings

500 g Mussels in their shells; (or
-New Zealand
; Green Lip)
2 Cloves Garlic
2 Shallots
500 g Salmon Fillet; (pin boned &
; skinned)
225 g Unsalted Butter
200 g Fresh Spinach Noodles
2 Tomatoes; (chopped) (2 to 3)
1 Olive Oil
150 ml White Wine
Fresh Coriander; (chopped)
Fresh Tarragon; (chopped)
Fresh Chives; (chopped)
1 Sprig Fresh Thyme /
-Seasoning

1. Finely chop the garlic and shallot.

2. Add 55g of butter to approximately 1 pint of boiling water in a shallow
saut‚ style pan. Add the thyme into this liquor and season.

3. Clean, wash and debeard the mussels. Remove all the barnacles and heat
up a frying pan until smoking hot.

4. Now add the mussels to this pan and immediately a good 150ml of white
wine.

5. Whilst mussels are cooking, poach the salmon pieces in the water, butter
and thyme liquor.

6. Cover the salmon with a butter wrapper or a piece of grease proof paper
and turn the pan down to a simmer for approximately 5 / 6 minutes to poach
the salmon.

7. Poach noodles in a sauce pan in boiling water with a little olive oil
and seasoning. Cook for 2 / 3 minutes and drain.

8. Make a tower (using a fork) of the pasta and serve in the centre of a
deep bowl.

9. Add the remainder of butter to the mussels and move white wine if
necessary and then the chopped herbs and tomatoes.

10. Serve the salmon around the pasta with the mussels scattered around and
the sauce over

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NOTES : Chef:Steven Saunders

Converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.