Quick recipe finder Asian ginger and cucumber soup with seared salmon
Serve this cucumber, ginger and miso flavoured soup cold garnished with diced seared salmon and green chillis.
Ingredients
For the soup
- 4 small ridge cucumbers or 2 English cucumbers
- 5cm/2in fresh root ginger, peeled and grated
- 70ml/2½fl oz rice vinegar
- 1 lime, juice only
- 2 tsp white miso
- 150ml/5fl oz cold vegetable stock
- 6 spring onions, green tops and whites separated, green tops roughly chopped
- ¼ bag of baby spinach
For the salmon
- 2 tbsp extra virgin rapeseed oil
- 115g/4oz salmon fillet, skin removed
- pinch salt
- 1 tbsp sherry vinegar
- 1 small green chilli, finely diced
- 1 tsp sesame seeds
Method
For the soup, shave the cucumbers and keep the shavings for later.
In a blender or liquidiser, blend the cucumbers (not the shavings), the ginger, vinegar, lime juice, miso and vegetable stock until smooth, then add the spring onion greens and spinach and continue to purée until smooth. Pass through a fine sieve into a bowl and leave to cool in the fridge.
For the salmon, heat half of the oil in a frying pan, season the salmon with salt and fry in a hot pan for 30 seconds on each side. Remove from the pan and set aside to cool, then cut into 5mm/¼in dice. In a bowl, combine the fish with the remaining ingredients for the salmon. Cover and leave to marinate for 10 minutes.
Finely chop the whites of the spring onions.
To serve, pour the soup into four chilled bowls and garnish with the salmon, cucumber shavings and shredded spring onion.
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