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New potato salad with radishes, spinach and pea shoots

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New potato salad with radishes, spinach and pea shoots
Salad
10
 

Ingredients
Potato salad:
  • 1,5kg (3,3 lbs) new potatoes, boiled
  • 2 bunches radishes, rinsed and cut in half (save the green tops)
  • 1 box of pea shoots
  • 1 bag of spinach
Dressing:
  • 2 anchovy fillets
  • 1 teaspoon Skåne mustard
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 2dl (1 cup) canola oil
  • salt
  • white pepper
Serving:
  • 100g (3½ oz) priest cheese, sliced into flakes

Instructions
Potato salad:
  1. Mix potatoes, radishes, pea shoots and spinach. Save some for the garnish.
Dressing:
  1. Mix anchovies, garlic, mustard, lemon juice and egg yolks in a blender or with a hand blender.
  2. Add the canola oil by drops while stirring.
  3. Season with salt and pepper.
Serving:
  1. Mix the potato salad with dressing, fold in the cheese and season with salt and pepper.
  2. Arrange as shown.

Grilled mackerel with a nettle- and spinach compote and chopped egg

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Grilled mackerel with nettle- and spinach compote and chopped egg
Main
10
 

Ingredients
Grilled mackerel:
  • 1.2 kg (2½lbs) mackerel fillet
  • butter
Nettle- and spinach compote:
  • 2 shallots, peeled and finely chopped
  • ½ leek, sliced
  • 4dl (1¾ cups) nettles, parboiled, cooked
  • 2dl (1 cup) fresh spinach
  • 6dl (2½ cups) whipping cream
  • salt
  • pepper
  • 1 lemon, juice and zest
Serving:
  • 4 hard-boiled eggs, coarsely chopped
  • lemon wedges
  • chives, finely chopped

Instructions
Nettle- and spinach compote:
  1. Fry the shallots and leeks in a skillet with butter.
  2. Add the nettles and spinach and sweat out the water.
  3. Add cream and season with pepper, salt and lemon juice and zest.
Grilled mackerel:
  1. Preheat a grill to a medium-high heat.
  2. Season the mackerel fillets with salt and pepper.
  3. Place under the grill, skin side up, for five minutes. After five minutes turn them over to brown the meat which will be nearly cooked by now and should only need a minute or two. Set aside to rest.
Serving:
  1. Serve the mackerel alongside the nettles mix. Garnish with chopped egg and chives.