James Martin's salmon pavé confit in butter

Serves 2 Starters and mains

BUTTER poaching salmon 4727

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Ingredients

  • 400g salmon fillet, skin on, scaled and pin boned
  • 10 pink peppercorns
  • 2 bay leaves
  • zest 1 lemon
  • a few thyme sprigs
  • 300g clarified butter, melted

To serve

  • crisp green salad

Method

Preheat the oven to 160C/140C F/Gas 3. Put all the ingredients in a shallow ovenproof dish and bake in the oven for 15 minutes.

Drain the fish and serve with a crisp green salad.

This recipe was taken from the Christmas 2021 issue of Food and Travel. To subscribe, click here.

Recipes and photographs taken from Butter by James Martin, photography by John Carey (Quadrille, £22).
BUTTER poaching salmon 4727
Recipes and photographs taken from Butter by James Martin, photography by John Carey (Quadrille, £22).

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