July – Smoked Trout Marinated in Elderflower, Chick Weed, Bitter Cress and Wood Sorrel

Smoked Trout Marinated in Elderflower, Chick Weed, Bitter Cress and Wood Sorrel

Serves 6

Trout

Ingredients

6 smoked trout fillets -Very simple, we are using smoked local trout flaked into pieces with any bones removed carefully. These are marinated in a mixture of forager finds, today we are using elderflower.

Method

Simply place the fish on a tray and place elderflower heads (approx 3) with the flowers touching the fish and marinade with Yorkshire rapeseed oil. Allow to marinade for 2-3 hours before removing the flower heads as much a you can.

Fennel Seed Spice Wafers

Ingredients

3 -4 thinly sliced wafers of bread each sprinkled with fennel seeds finely ground in a pestle and mortar.

Method

Brush with Yorkshire Rapeseed oil and bake until golden and crispy.

Yorkshire Dressing

Ingredients

40 ml blackberry vinegar (we are using blackberry vinegar from Womersley)
140 ml Yorkshire Rapeseed oil (We are using Wharfe Valley another Yorkshire based company)
1 tablespoon Yorkshire honey (a summer time blossom style would be good)
1 tablespoons of water

Method

Mix the ingredients together ideally using a bar mixer or stick blender.
Season with salt and pepper and place in a bottle. Shake and serve over the salad later.

Celeriac remoularde with chickweed

Ingredients

2 large handfuls of washed chickweed
¼ peeled and grated celeriac
3 tablespoons of mayonnaise
1 tablespoon of mustard grain

Method

Simply mix the grated celeriac with the mayonnaise and grated cheese and season if necessary.

Salad leaves

Ingredients

This all depends what you can get but we are using dandelion leaves, chick weed, bitter cress, sweet cicely, and some watercress with salad leaves from the garden.
Washed and drained. You can also serve with cucumber and tomato if you prefer.

To Assemble

Simply toss the trout flakes in the salad with the dressing until you have enough dressing covering the salad. Place the fennel seed wafers poking out of the salad for people to help themselves or when serving as a starter serve the wafers carefully balancing on top of the salad.