Perch with Swedish Flavors

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4.9

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  • Prep Time

    10 mins

  • Cook Time

    3 hrs 10 mins

  • Total Time

    3 hrs 45 mins

  • Servings

    4 servings

  • Course

    Appetizer

  • Cuisine

    Scandinavian

Perch with Swedish Flavors

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Ingredients

Servings
  • 1 big perch around 1kg/ 2.2 lb
  • 10 small new potatoes
  • 1/2 sour whey
  • 10 stalks dill
  • ramson flowers
  • chive flowers
  • Swedish anchovies from Grebbestad
  • butter
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Instructions

  1. Filét the perch and cut it in 4 portions, salt them gently and put aside.
  2. Smoke all the off cuts from the fish with juniper branches for 2 good hours.
  3. When done put in a saucepan along with cold water, a few stalks of dill and an onion.
  4. Let simmer for 1-2 hours, then strain and reduce.
  5. Cold smoke the filets of perch for 1 hour using the same branches as for the off cuts.
  6. Cook potatoes in the whey, cut them in to slices, brush with butter and put aside.
  7. Finish the perch filéts with butter in a pan.
  8. Dress with dill stems and flowers.
  9. Finnish the sauce with browned butter.

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