Trying out a lime salsa inspired side dish to go with my John Dory fillets.
Peel and cut pith off one juicy lime. Over a bowl to catch juices, cut the flesh out of the segment membrane, then cut into small pieces. Peel a 2inch of cucumber, cut in half, scrape out the seed then roughly chop. Take a ripe tomato, skin, cut into quarters, deseed and then roughly chop. Finely chop about two tablespoons of red onion. Very finely chop two inches of green chilli, without the seeds. Combine all together, leave to marinate for a couple of hours. Cut lime with walnut oil, about half teaspoon, to taste, you want to keep the tang of the lime fresh, then serve as an aside with the fish.
Chanced on this very good combination, excellent for a starter. Yet again no photo, when will I learn?
It is very fast, so get everything ready before starting. Watchpoints: onion en-dente, dry spinach and do not leave the cheese to heat.
Take about 200gm pre-spring-water washed young spinach leaves. Pick over, nip off any thick stems, discard any spoilt leaves. Grab into one tight bundle and cut across in 1/2inch strips, do not worry if the odd leaf escapes.
Pre-heat a large and deep covered pan. Medium chop one large white onion, so you have strips say about 5mm x 20mm. Coarsely grated about 2oz of Gruyère cheese. Cut two thick slices of a very good wholemeal loaf, crusts off, toast and set aside to keep warm.
Into the pre-heated pan, a smear of oil, throw in onion, cover over a low heat and watch. No colouring, just turning transparent, test, until soft to bite but still retains crispness. Turn pan to highest heat, off with lid, get the chopped spinach in as soon as possible, turning over with spatula, blend with the onion, as soon as the dry spinach wilts, loses it shape, (it should not throw off any water if the spinach is dry and has not been washed again) take off the heat. Strew with Gruyère, keep turning and let the residual heat of the spinach melt the cheese.
In the meantime soft boil and shell two quail eggs!
Serve immediately on the brown toast, a pile of spinach cheese all topped off with a soft boiled quails egg. Yummy
Peel and cut pith off one juicy lime. Over a bowl to catch juices, cut the flesh out of the segment membrane, then cut into small pieces. Peel a 2inch of cucumber, cut in half, scrape out the seed then roughly chop. Take a ripe tomato, skin, cut into quarters, deseed and then roughly chop. Finely chop about two tablespoons of red onion. Very finely chop two inches of green chilli, without the seeds. Combine all together, leave to marinate for a couple of hours. Cut lime with walnut oil, about half teaspoon, to taste, you want to keep the tang of the lime fresh, then serve as an aside with the fish.