Recipe - Roasted Roots (Potato Carrot Radish Leek)

2 170 g; (6oz) salmon fillet
; steaks, with skin
; on
Olive oil
1 lg Fennel bulb
2 lg Shallots
4 Fennel seeds; crushed
1 tablespoon White wine vinegar
1 Glass white wine
4 lg Ripe tomatoes
1 Pinches saffron powder
Splash Pernod
Few mixed salad leaves

Using a sharp knife scarpe off any scales from the salmon and cut incisions
at 5mm apart through the skin of the salmon but not the flesh. Rub with a
little salt.

Finely slice the shallots and the fennel bulb and sweat in a pan with a
little olive oil for 5 minutes, add the fennel seeds and the saffron and
sweat for a further 2 minutes. Add white wine and vinegar and reduce by
half.

Cut the tomatoes in half and remove the seeds. Coarsely chop and add to the
pan. Simmer until the stew thickens. Add Pernod and correct the seasoning.

Heat a heavy pan up and fry the salmon skin side down for 2 minutes. Place
pan into the oven and roast for 6 minutes. Season.

Spoon some stew into the centre of your plates, top with salad and place
the salmon on top. Serve.

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