Stokes Sauces: Sensational Salmon

Salmon - so simple, so tasty

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A fresh salmon steak from the fishmonger or supermarket equivalent makes a wonderful, healthy, simple, quick supper.

You can dress it up, give it an oriental twist, serve it as a curry, barbecue it, roast it and poach it.

Shallow poaching is one of the easiest and most risk-free ways to cook fish. Any extra ingredients you add to the poaching liquor will add flavoursome twists to the salmon.

Dill & Mustard Sauce

This roast salmon is served with a simple sauce. Simmer 2 diced shallots, 1 finely chopped stick of celery and and half a diced fennel bulb in half and half white wine and water (100 to 125 ml of each) with Stokes Mustard & Dill Sauce - 2 tsp should be fine, you can always add more to taste.

Blitz with a hand blender, pass through a fine sieve, taste and serve. The gentle aromatics work so well with salmon.

Salmon with Minted Peas

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Here's how:

Before roasting the salmon, brush it with or soak it in a mixture of the juice of 2 limes, a big squeeze of honey and 1 tbsp of Stokes Classic English Mustard. Grill or bake the salmon.

For the minted peas: Soften 2 diced shallots in butter then add frozen petits pois, half a glass of white wine and 2 tsp of Stokes Mint Sauce. Blitz, season and serve with your salmon.

The flavour combinations are subtle - warming mustard and sweet honey in the glaze with sweet mint and piquant vinegar in the juicy peas ... so tasty.

BBQ Salmon Kebabs

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Here's how:

Salmon is firm enough to cube and skewer. With these kebabs, we add manges touts for a little crunch, cherry tomatoes for sweetness and red and yellow peppers to finish the colourful ensemble.

[TIP: Often peppers are too crunchy on a skewer, particularly when the meat, such as salmon, needs only a short cooking time. Try roasting, softening and skinning the peppers first. You still have the colour and sweet flavour supporting the other elements, rather than fighting with them.]

Assemble the skewers and brush with a mixture of lemon or lime juice, olive oil and Stokes Original BBQ Sauce.

This won't overpower the salmon but adds the light tang of smoky BBQ whether you grill them inside or out.

Crusted Salmon Bake

Here's how:

Pre-heat the oven to 200°C/gas mark 6.

There are two elements to the crust. First, mix about 125 g of creamed cheese with the zest of half a lemon and 1 tbsp of Stokes Cider & Horseradish Mustard and spread it on the salmon.

Now mix equal parts of breadcrumbs and grated Parmesan cheese (about 25 g of each) and chopped parsley. Coat the mustard-cheese spread with the dry mixture and bake for 10 to 15 minutes.