We seldom cook fish in our house, saving it as a treat
when eating out. But when I found a couple of raw salmon steaks in our
refrigerator after Margreet’s week of cooking, the task (or pleasure) was mine.
As I had heard many
times that a whole salmon should be covered with cold, salty and spiced water,
to be brought to the boil and then left to get cold, I did the same.
The cooked steaks
needed patting dry with kitchen paper when extracted from the water. Then it
was a simple matter of making a mayonnaise and boiling some potatoes.
SIMPLE COLD SALMON
You will need:
Salmon steaks (one per person)
Salt
Spices of your choice
Mayonnaise (made of egg yolk, Dijon mustard, salt, oil, and
a little lemon juice)
Potatoes
Cook the salmon steaks in the way aforementioned.
Make a mayonnaise by putting an egg yolk into a bowl and
adding half its volume of Dijon mustard and a little salt. Stir in oil – either
olive, rapeseed, groundnut or other, or mixture, until the consistency of
mayonnaise has been obtained. I use mostly olive oil. Do not worry about the
temperature of the ingredients. An added few drops of lemon juice is an
improvement.
Boil some potatoes (20 minutes).
Serve the cold mayonnaise-coated salmon with hot potatoes.
It is as simple and delicious as that.
