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🍽️ Crispy Salmon on Creamy Sorrel Sauce

559 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• 4 pieces salmon fillet (approx. 200 g each)
• salt
• 2 tbsp butter
• 0.5 lemon (juice)
• 4 lemon slices
• 1 tbsp butter
• 1 shallot
• 1 tsp flour
• 250 g whipping cream
• 0.5 tsp lemon zest
• salt
• pepper (from the mill)
• nutmeg
• 1 sorrel (handful finely chopped]

Instructions

1. 1. Rinse the salmon under cold water.
2. 2. Pat the fish completely dry with a kitchen towel.
3. 3. Drizzle the salmon with some lemon juice.
4. 4. Season the fish generously with salt and black pepper.
5. 5. Peel the shallot and cut it into very small cubes.
6. 6. Heat butter in a pot and sweat the shallots until translucent.
7. 7. Stir the flour into the butter-shallot mixture.
8. 8. Let the mixture cook briefly until light in color.
9. 9. Stir in the cream gradually using a whisk.
10. 10. Bring the sauce to a boil.
11. 11. Simmer the sauce for about 10 minutes over low heat.
12. 12. Stir the sauce occasionally while cooking.
13. 13. Season the sauce with salt, pepper, nutmeg, and lemon zest.
14. 14. Stir the sorrel into the finished sauce.
15. 15. Let the sauce simmer with the sorrel for another 2 to 3 minutes.
16. 16. Heat butter in a frying pan.
17. 17. Fry the salmon in the hot butter for about 3 minutes per side.
18. 18. Spread the sorrel sauce onto the plates.
19. 19. Place the fried salmon on top of the sauce.
20. 20. Cut the lemon slices into quarters.
21. 21. Garnish the dish with the lemon quarters.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 559
• Protein: 38 g · Fett/Fat: 47 g · Carbs: 4 g