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Roast Salmon with Warm Potato and Dill

Roast salmon flaked over warm potatoes with a dill-yoghurt dressing instead of mayonnaise.

Roast Salmon with Warm Potato and Dill. Roast salmon flaked over warm potatoes with a dill-yoghurt dressing instead of mayonnaise.
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Prep 15 minCook 25 minServes 2

Ingredients

Why metric?

Metric avoids regional spoon ambiguity. US uses 5 mL tsp, 15 mL tbsp and 240 mL cup. Small masses stay in grams unless a verified recipe conversion exists. More on measurements

  • 2 skinless salmon fillets (240 g)
  • 450 g small potatoes, skins on, halved
  • 130 g plain low-fat yoghurt
  • 150 g cucumber, halved and sliced
  • 10 g fresh dill, chopped
  • 15 ml lemon juice (15 g)
  • 15 ml extra-virgin olive oil (14 g)
  • 1 g iodised table salt
  • Ground black pepper, to taste

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 200C/400F. Put the potatoes in cold water, bring to the boil and simmer 18-20 minutes, until a knife goes in with no resistance.
  2. Put the salmon on a lined tray, rub it with the oil and a pinch of the salt and roast 9-11 minutes. It is ready when the flesh just parts at the thickest point and is still faintly translucent in the middle; by the time it flakes cleanly it has gone dry.
  3. Mix the yoghurt with the dill, lemon juice, the rest of the salt and pepper.
  4. Drain the potatoes and fold them through the dressing while still warm, so they take it up.
  5. Add the cucumber, then break the salmon into large flakes over the top and turn it through twice.

Serve

Lemon is a commonly reported trigger. If it is one of yours, leave it out — nothing here depends on it.

Safety and storage

Cook to
63°C / 145°F in the centre (fish)
Keeps
3 days refrigerated below 5°C
Reheat to
steaming hot, at least 75°C

Colour and clear juices are not a reliable test. Check the thickest part with a thermometer.

Cool it fast: split large amounts into shallow containers as soon as it stops steaming, and have it in the fridge within two hours. Reheat once only, until steaming hot right through, at least 75°C in the centre.

Where these temperatures come from

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