Word up Food Tubers, Mister Oliver here.
We have an incredible dish today.
We're doing a beautiful, beautiful cured salmon with amazing marinated crushed beetroots,
horseradish cream.
This is the dish you want to cook for the girlfriend, the boyfriend, get the mother
in law round.
It's going to be super, super good.
We've got some beautiful fresh salmon, that's 300 grams there.
That's going to serve four people.
Three heaped tablespoons of Malden sea salt goes in there.
Most of that is going to come away but we need that salt to penetrate that fish to cure
it.
It gives you this sort of incredible waxy, delicate texture that allows you to slice
it really thinly, easily and it looks and tastes amazing.
So we want to add more flavour in there, brown sugar one heaped tablespoon like that.
Lemon zest, orange, half of the zest.
Then we're going to use dill.
That, for later, but this part here, the stalks really sweet.
Slice it up and that's all going to fall off so that's flavour for free, nothing in the
bin.
And then the secret ingredient.
Some decent vodka.
One shot.
This is not traditional, right but it adds to the whole kind of flavour that we're after
here.
Massage up that lemon, vodka, sugar.
What I want to do is pack that salt onto this salmon and put the other salmon on top.
Get a bit of cling film and we're simply going to wrap it up super tight.
Put that in the fridge, I do it in the morning by 12, 1 o'clock in the afternoon it's ready
and raring to go.
If you leave it a little bit longer it will get firmer and firmer and firmer.
Nine hours is fine, but five hours is optimal.
This is what it looks like after 5 hours.
It's firmed up nicely.
I'm actually just going to brush this salt off, normally in a gravadlax recipe you would
to wash it off.
You don't need to do that.
We're going to use our dill.
What I want to do is kind of create a little herby bark on the outside.
Just finely chop it.
Right, and then the fish goes straight into that.
See how it just coats it beautifully?
Absolutely gorgeous.
This goes into the fridge until you need it.
What I'm going to do now is show you how to make the beautiful horseradish sour cream
and beautiful crushed marinated beetroots.
So, so simple.
Roughly, for four people.
Two heaped tablespoons of soured cream, about two heaped teaspoons of horseradish, it's
got to have attitude or otherwise why bother?
Then half a lemon, do you remember the one I grated?
Squeeze it, catch the seeds.
A nice little pinch of salt.
A little bit of quality extra virgin olive oil in there.
One tablespoon.
Mix it up.
All you really need to do is taste it for seasoning and heat.
Nice and hot makes your nose go a little whoo hoo!
Next, beetroots, add a little bit of balsamic vinegar, nice pinch of salt, a little oil.
I quite like crushing I like it being rustic.
That is going to be joyful.
I'm going to have a little clean up so you can fast forward!
Okay, so missus is coming round, mother in law and the old man is coming round.
If they turn up and you're hot and sweaty and look stressed.
Not cool.
Even if you're bad with knife skills you'll manage half or just over half a centimetre.
It's nice and thin.
It's almost you can see the light through it.
You've got the herb there, you know it's fresh but it's lightly cured.
Towards the end just kind of flare it out to take the salmon off because you don't want
that skin.
The second way of doing it.
Take the end off, you're simply going to take your knife along the bottom of the salmon
and that takes all the skin off in one.
All of this you can do in advance.
Okay so we've got that on the plate.
Horseradish sour cream.
Just going to do a little pile there.
I love the way the beets just kind of bleed into the beautiful sour cream.
You've got the salon.
It's really, really nice dish.
1980's cress.
A nice bit there, fresh dill.
From a height just pick it off.
Really nice.
A little olive oil.
Look at that absolutely gorgeous.
If someone gives that to me I am so chuffed!
Really, really good!
So good!
The salmon is lightly cured so it's got that lovely sort of waxyness that you get from
things like smoked salmon and prosciutto and stuff like that really nice to eat.
Beetroot's just sweet and gorgeous the heat of the horseradish.
So good!
So to go with this gorgeous dish for this lovely night out, how about a nice cocktail?
An old Cuban.
Click the box below and I'll'll show you just how to do it.
You're gonna love it!