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Jacket potatoes with crème fraîche, hot smoked trout & quick pickled cucumbers

Jacket potatoes with crème fraîche, hot smoked trout & quick pickled cucumbers

Ed Smith's recipe is a really simple assembly of delicious things that elevates the humble baked spud into something well-suited to a midweeker.

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Gluten free
  • Serves4
  • CourseMain meal
  • Prepare15 mins
  • Cook1 hr
  • Total time1 hr 15 mins

Ingredients

  • 4 baking potatoes
  • 2 tsp extra virgin olive oil
  • ¼ tsp fine salt, plus more for dusting and seasoning
  • 1 cucumber
  • 1 tsp caster sugar
  • 1 tbsp white wine vinegar
  • ½ x 20 pack dill, fronds only, roughly chopped
  • 50g butter
  • 150g crème fraîche
  • 2 x 160g packs Scottish hot smoked trout fillets
  • 2 tbsp nonpareille capers, drained

Method

  1. Bake the jacket potatoes. I blast them for 10 minutes in the microwave, then transfer to a baking tin, drizzle with the oil, dust with fine salt, and bake for 45 minutes in a preheated oven at 220ºC, gas mark 7.

  2. Meanwhile, slice the cucumber into 0.1-0.2cm discs. Transfer to a bowl and add the sugar and ¼ tsp salt. Mix well, then add the white wine vinegar and half the dill. Mix and set aside.

  3. Once crisp on the outside and soft inside, remove the potatoes and cut a deep cross into each. Add the butter, a sprinkle of salt and 1-2 tbsp crème fraîche per person. Top with the trout, skinned and broken into large flakes, capers and more dill. Add a pile of cucumbers to each plate and serve.

Cook’s tip

Tweak the assembly a little and serve the cucumbers plus crème fraîche, dill and capertopped jacket potatoes with steamed or fried trout fillets.

Nutritional

Typical values per serving when made using specific products in recipe

Energy

2,251kJ/ 540kcals

Fat

31.7g

Saturated Fat

15g

Carbohydrates

38.5g

Sugars

5.7g

Fibre

5.5g

Protein

22.3g

Salt

2.7g

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