Warm smoked trout salad
Ingredients:
800g potatoes
4 large eggs
200g green beans
350g asparagus
6 heaped tablespoons yoghurt
2 tables white wine vinegar
3 teaspoons horseradish, grated
30g fresh chives
1 lemon, juiced
4 x 70g smoked trout fillets
100g raw baby beetroots, finely sliced/ shaved
Method:
- Wash potatoes, halving any large ones, and boil them in a large pot for 15 to 20 minutes.
- Rinse the eggs and soft boil them for 5 ½ minutes (can use the boiling potato water) and remove to a bowl of cold water.
- Trim the stalks off the green beans and add into boiling water for 7 minutes.
- Trim the woody ends off the asparagus and cook in boiling water for 3 minutes.
- Make the dressing – mix yoghurt, vinegar and horseradish together in a bowl.
- Finley chop chives and add them into the mix.
- Stir well, add a squeeze of lemon juice and season to taste.
- Drain the potatoes and veg and leave to steam dry for 5 minutes.
- Cut the potatoes into bite size chunks , slice up green beans and asparagus, and toss into the dressing before pouring into a large platter dish.
- Flake pieces of smoked trout over the platter and sprinkle over sliced beets.
- Peel and halve the eggs and scatter over the platter with the remaining chives and another squeeze of lemon juice.