Starters & Light meals

Warm egg-and-seafood salad

4
Easy
20 minutes
10 minutes
Wine/Spirit Pairing
Kleine Zalze Bush Vine Chenin Blanc

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Ingredients

Method
  • 4 free-range eggs
  • 2 T butter
  • 4 cloves garlic
  • 1 T crushed ginger, peeled and grated
  • 220 g salmon steaks
  • Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
  • 200 g fine green beans, blanched
  • 125 g Tenderstem broccoli, blanched
  • 200 g baby marrows, sliced lengthways and grilled in a griddle pan
  • 350 g pink fir baby potatoes, boiled with the skin on
  • 2 T soya sauce
  • 1 cup fish stock
  • 1 chilli, chopped
  • Thyme, a handful
  • 300 g fresh mussels in the shell, cleaned
  • 2 T black sesame seeds, for sprinkling
  • For the dressing, mix:
  • 2 T soya sauce
  • 1 T sesame oil
  • 4 t honey
  • 2 t rice wine vinegar
  • Chilli flakes, a pinch
  • Garlic flakes, a pinch
  • Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

Place the eggs in a saucepan of cold water, cover and bring to the boil. Remove the saucepan from heat and allow the eggs to stand for 3 minutes for soft boiled. Remove from the saucepan using a slotted spoon and peel.

Heat the butter in a pan and saute´ the garlic and ginger for 1 minute. Add the salmon steaks, season and cook for 1½ minutes on each side. Add the vegetables and cook for 1 minute. Set aside the salmon and vegetables.

Using the same pan, bring the soya sauce, stock, chilli and thyme to the boil. Add the mussels, cover and cook for 4–5 minutes, or until they open. Discard any unopened mussels.

Arrange the eggs, vegetables, salmon and mussels on a platter and sprinkle with the sesame seeds. Serve with the dressing.

Siba Mtongana

Recipe by: Siba Mtongana

Siba Mtongana is a South African celebrity chef and television presenter known as the host of The Cooking Channel show Siba's Table.

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