Fried salmon fillet with lemon-hollandaise sauce (Johann Lafer)

AUTHOR
Leta Marks
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4.3 3
COOK TIME
60 mins
TOTAL TIME
60 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 400 g baby potatoes
  • 4 Stem(s) Parsley
  • 3 Stem(s) Chervil
  • 4 Salmon fillets (approx. 150 g each)
  • 3 Stem(s) Thyme
  • 3 Garlic cloves
  • 1 TABLESPOON clarified butter
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 7-10 Tbsp white pepper
  • 1 Shallot
  • 5 white peppercorns
  • 100 ml dry white wine
  • 1 Bay leaf
  • 175 g Butter
  • 1 egg (size M)
  • 3 Yolks (size M)
  • 5 TABLESPOONS Whipped cream
  • 1 TABLESPOON Olive oil
  • 7-10 Tbsp grated peel and juice of 1 untreated lemon
  • 7-10 Tbsp Sugar
  • 7-10 Tbsp coarse sea salt
  • 7-10 Tbsp Lemon zests

Directions

  1. 1

    Wash the potatoes and cook in boiling water for about 15 minutes. Drain, rinse and peel. Wash parsley and chervil, dab dry, put some chervil aside for garnishing.

  2. 2

    Finely chop the rest of the herbs. Wash the fish, dab dry. Thyme wash, dab dry. Peel garlic. Heat clarified butter in an ovenproof pan. Add salmon, 2 stalks of thyme and garlic.

  3. 3

    Fry the salmon for about 1 minute on each side. Season salmon with salt and pepper. Cook in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 100 °C/ convection oven: not suitable/ gas: not suitable) for 10-12 minutes.

  4. 4

    Peel and slice the shallot. Crush the peppercorns. Boil up white wine, shallot, peppercorns, 1 thyme stalk and bay leaf, reduce by half over high heat. Pour through a sieve into a bowl.

  5. 5

    Cut 150 g butter into small cubes and melt in the hot liquid. Beat the egg, egg yolks, cream, olive oil, lemon zest and juice in an ovenproof bowl over a hot water bath until foamy.

  6. 6

    Slowly stir in a thin stream of butter mixture. Season with salt, pepper and sugar. Heat 25 g butter in a frying pan and fry the potatoes. Add parsley and chervil, season with sea salt.

  7. 7

    Arrange salmon with potatoes and hollandaise sauce. Garnish with chervil and lemon zests.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
880 kcal
CARBS
16 g
FATS
72 g
PROTEINS
37 g

Categories & Tags

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