Creamy cucumber with gravadlax

Name: Creamy cucumber with gravadlax
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Nordic, Scandinavian, European
Ingredients: 1 larges cucumber; 1 small fennel bulb; 2 Tbsps double cream; 2 teaspoons white wine vinegar; 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard; 1 small bunch dill, roughly chopped, plus extra to serve; 300 grams gravadlax, about 8 nice slices; 1 serving brown bread and butter, to serve

If you want to add more pescatarian recipes to your recipe box, Creamy cucumber with gravadlax might be a recipe you should try. This recipe makes 4 servings with 234 calories, 18g of protein, and 14g of fat each. This recipe covers 6% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It works best as a main course, and is done in roughly 25 minutes. This recipe from BBC Good Food requires brown bread and butter, fennel bulb, gravadlax, and dill. A couple people really liked this Scandinavian dish. Users who liked this recipe also liked Gravadlax, Gravadlax temptation, and Citrus-cured salmon gravadlax.

Instructions

Peel alternate strips of skin off the cucumber and halve lengthways. Scoop away the seeds with a teaspoon, slice the cucumber on an angle, then place in a colander or sieve set above a bowl.

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Cucumber

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Colander

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Bowl

Remove the outer layer of fennel and quarter the bulb.

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Fennel

Cut away the core, then slice the fennel as finely as possible. Tip the fennel in with the cucumber, season generously with salt, then leave to macerate for 10 mins.

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Cucumber

Fennel

Salt

When the vegetables have been salted, taste a piece of cucumber. If its too salty, give them a rinse. But if its fine, then just squeeze them gently. In a separate bowl, stir together the cream, vinegar, mustard and dill, and season with a grind of black pepper. Toss the vegetables into the creamy dressing and serve with a few slices of gravadlax, a sprinkling of dill and some buttered brown bread.

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Black Pepper