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Salmon with sorrel

Salmon with sorrel is the perfect mix with tender salmon and the slight acidity of sorrel.

253,240 14.3/5 for 44 ratings

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Last modified on: October 13^th 2010

For 4 people, you will need:

0 4 pieces fresh salmon
1 200 ml liquid cream
2 4 handfuls sorrel
3 2 tablespoons fish fumet
4 1 glass dry white wine
5 salt
6 pepper
Total weight: 730 grams

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
1 hour 6 min.	5 min.	12 min.	1 hour 23 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 34 min.

Prepare sorrel

Stage 2 - 22 min.

Prepare and grill 4 pieces fresh salmon.

Stage 3 - 5 min.

Let wait in a hot plate, covered with aluminium foil.

Stage 4 - 5 min.

Prepare sorrel sauce: Discard fat from frying pan, and put back on medium heat.

Add 2 tablespoons fish fumet, 1 glass dry white wine, and carefully scrape the bottom of the pan with a wooden spatula to get all the cooking juices, mix them with wine and fumet, and leave to reduce to about half.

Stage 5 - 2 min.

Add all the sorrel leaves to the frying pan, stir gently...

Stage 6 - 3 min.

...in a few seconds they will wilt, and unfortunately lose their nice green color.

Stage 7 - 7 min.

Add 200 ml liquid cream, bring to the boil then salt and pepper.

Leave to thicken to your taste, check seasoning, and the sorrel sauce is ready.

Stage 8 - 5 min.

To serve: on a hot plate (important), arrange a salmon steak in centre, surround with sorrel sauce.

Serve with rice for example.

Remarks

A word of caution: you should not chop sorrel, but add the leaves as the taste is better.

Keeping:

To eat right now.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,293 Kcal or 5,414 Kj	86 gr	10 gr	100 gr
65 %	33 %	1 %	15 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
177 Kcal or 741 Kj	12 gr	1 gr	14 gr
9 %	5 %	<1 %	2 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
323 Kcal or 1,352 Kj	22 gr	3 gr	25 gr
16 %	8 %	<1 %	4 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 4 people : 10.49 €
Per person : 2.62 €

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Note : These prices are only approximate.

Source

From Charles Barrier.

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Liquid cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Two-cheese quiche, Involtinis, Crème de foie gras, Artichoke hearts forestier , Apple and almond gratin, ... All
	Sorrel: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Herb salad, How to prepare sorrel, Sorrel soup, ... All
	Fresh salmon: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Salmon marinated like herring, Pan-fried salmon with white cabbage, Seafood feuillantines, Salmon and Spinach Gratin, Koulibiak in pie dish, ... All
	Fish fumet: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Salmon rillettes, Salmon "en papillote" with small vegetables, Fish petals, vegetables julienne, and beurre blanc, Pollack Parmentier, Sauce Normande (for fish), ... All

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Salmon just as I enjoy it. Simple yet elegant. I think even I can prepare this jh. Thanks for sharing. The "new" look on your site is quite pleasant. Looking Good:)
Posted by Louise june 14^th 2009 at 11:23 (n° 1)

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