40°C salmon with potato juice, Jerusalem artichoke and sea vegetables

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Use organic, sustainable salmon for this challenging sous-vide salmon recipe. Paul Foster garnishes this dish with foraged sea vegetables at his restaurant. At home, you can substitute for asparagus, spinach, pak choi, baby fennel tops.

First published in 2015

Ingredients

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Salmon

  • 300g of salmon
  • 100g of salt
  • 100g of sugar
  • 500ml of water, cold
  • 20ml of olive oil

Potato juice

Jerusalem artichoke

Sea vegetables

  • 50g of sea purslane
  • 50g of samphire
  • 50g of buckshorn plantain

Lemon purée

Garnish

Method

1
Skin the salmon and remove any pin bones. Mix the water with the salt and sugar in a bowl and then add the salmon. Leave in the fridge to brine for 20 minutes
  • 300g of salmon
  • 100g of salt
  • 100g of sugar
  • 500ml of water
2
Wash the salmon off in cold water, pat dry, place in a vacuum pack bag with the oil and seal. Cook at 40°C in a water bath for 10 minutes and chill
  • 20ml of olive oil
3
Juice the potato through a vegetable juicer, and allow to sit for 10 minutes to separate the starch. Pour the liquid off the top and bring to the boil, add the brown chicken stock and adjust acidity with the lemon juice. Season and pass through muslin
4
Bring the lemon juice to the boil with the agar. Pour into a tray and leave to set. Once set, blend until smooth and pass through a chinois
5
Wash the artichokes and slice thinly on a mandolin, cook in a deep fat fryer at 130°C until lightly golden. Drain off on kitchen towel, season with sea salt and malt powder and keep in an airtight container
6
Pick and wash the sea vegetables and blanch in boiling water for 30 seconds, plunge in ice water to refresh. Drain on kitchen towel
  • 50g of sea purslane
  • 50g of samphire
  • 50g of buckshorn plantain
7
Before serving, warm the potato juice gently. Remove the salmon from the fridge, cut into portions and leave to come up to room temperature for 10 minutes
8
Place the salmon into bowls and place some radish and sea vegetables on top. Dot the lemon purée around the plate, pour in the potato juice and finish with artichoke crisps
First published in 2015

Focused, skilled and intelligent, Paul Foster works with the materials he has around him to create extraordinary dishes which sing with a vibrancy perfectly in tune with their surroundings.

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