- 4x175g/6oz salmon fillets (if not lune, then wild)
- 125g/4oz Lancashire cheese
- 125g/4oz fresh breadcrumbs
- 30g/1oz chives
- pinch of cayenne pepper
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 lemon, zest only
- splash of olive oil
- 125g/4oz brown shrimps
- 125g/4oz cockles
- 2 shallots, finely chopped
- 1 glass white wine
- 125ml/¼ pint double cream
- 55g/2oz butter
- 150ml/¼ pint of fish stock
- Heat the olive oil and seal the salmon fillets.
- Mix the breadcrumbs, chives, cayenne pepper, cheese, salt, pepper and lemon zest together.
- Top the salmon with the crumble mix and place in a hot oven (200C/400F/Gas 6) for 6 to 7 minutes.
- Cook the finely chopped shallots in the butter until soft.
- Add the white wine and reduce by two-thirds
- Add the fish stock and reduce again by two-thirds.
- Add the cockles and cream and reduce by two-thirds, then add the shrimps at the last minute.
- Make a nest with cockles and shrimps and top with the salmon.