This week's Matlock Mercury recipe column from Saturday Cooks is by Antony Worrall Thomson - Salmon Loaf with Cucumber Dill Sauce - a wonderful family supper which appears as if by magic from your store cupboard!
Serves: 4 Cooking time: short
INGREDIENTS:
• 135g cream cheese
• 2 free range eggs
• 1 teaspoon smoked or sweet paprika
• salt and pepper
• 3 spring onions, chopped
• 3 roasted peppers (from a jar), chopped
• 50g stale breadcrumbs
• 3
00g tinned salmon, flaked
• 500g new potatoes to serve
For the cucumber dill sauce:
• third of a cucumber, peeled, seeded and diced
• 80g soured cream
• juice of half lemon
• 1 shallot, finely diced
• 1 small bunch dill, chopped
• caster sugar to taste
• salt and ground white pepper
METHOD:
• Pre-heat oven to 180°C/Gas Mark 4 and oil a 14cm x 21cm loaf tin. Line the base and two opposite sides with baking paper.
• Combine cream cheese, eggs, paprika, spring onions, peppers, breadcrumbs, salmon, salt and pepper and mix thoroughly. Beat eggs in a bowl and add to mixture and fold in.
• Spoon mixture into the prepared tin and bake, uncovered for about 40 minutes or until firm. Allow to rest in a warm place for 5 minutes before turning out.
• For the sauce: combine all ingredients and season to taste.
• Serve slices of loaf with the sauce and steamed peeled new potatoes.
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