Buffet recipe for 8 as a main or more with other dishes people, takes only 30 mins; recipe has new potato, green bean, quail egg, salmon, spring onion, avocado, watercress, chicory, mustard, wholegrain mustard, honey, cider vinegar and olive oil.
Hot-smoked salmon, double cress & potato salad platter
Course: Buffet
Servings
8 as a main or more with other dishes
servings
Prep time
40 mins
Ingredients
- New Potato: 400g small new potato
- Green Bean: 100g green bean
- Quail Egg: 12 quail eggs
- Salmon: 2 packs hot-smoked salmon, you want about 350g in total
- Spring Onion: 5 spring onions, trimmed
- Avocado: 2 avocados
- Watercress: 2 x 100g bags watercress
- Chicory: 1 head of chicory, broken into leaves
- Mustard: 1 pot mustard cress, trimmed
- Wholegrain Mustard: 1 heaped tbsp wholegrain mustard
- Honey: 1 heaped tsp clear honey
- Cider Vinegar: 3 tbsp cider vinegar
- Olive Oil: 8 tbsp olive oil
Directions
- To make the dressing, whisk all the ingredients together in a bowl with some seasoning or place them in a screwcap jar and shake well. Can be made up to 2 days in advance. Cook the potatoes in plenty of boiling water for 10 mins until just tender. Drain, cool slightly, then slice.
- While the potatoes are cooking, blanch the green beans in plenty of boiling water for 4 mins until cooked but still with a slight crunch, drain, refresh in iced water to stop them cooking further, then drain again. Cook the quail's eggs for 3 mins. Drain, place under cold water, then peel and halve. Flake the salmon into large chunks into a bowl and slice the spring onions. All these jobs can be done in advance. Just before serving, halve, peel and slice the avocados.
- This is a layered salad rather than a tossed salad, so start by scattering the watercress and chicory over a platter. Scatter different handfuls at a time of all the other ingredients (but not the mustard cress) so that they are evenly distributed. Drizzle over two-thirds of the dressing, then strew over the mustard cress. Serve with the remaining dressing on the side.
