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Preparation time
overnight
Cooking time
30 mins to 1 hour
Serves
Serves 4
For something truly unique take inspiration from Scandinavia. All you need is a juniper branch and a little courage!
Mix the sugar and salt together for the curing mix. Rub the cod with curing mix on both sides. Leave at room temperature for 30 minutes. Place in the fridge for at least 8 hours, preferably overnight.
Pat the cod dry with kitchen paper. Put the cod in a baking tin and put the juniper branch on the opposite side of the tin. Carefully set fire to the juniper branch. Cover with foil and smoke for 10 minutes. If you want a smokier flavour leave to smoke for longer.
Remove the cod from the roasting tin and carefully cut into 5mm/¼in slices. Lightly brown the slices with a chef’s blow torch.
For the apple and frisée salad, toss all of the salad ingredients in the cream and season with salt.
For the potato salad, bring a pot of salted water to the boil, add the potatoes and cook until soft. Use a peeler to create thin strands from the outside of the cucumber, reserve this to make pickled cucumber. Finely chop the remaining flesh of the cucumber for the potato salad
Drain the potatoes and leave to cool. Mix with the other potato salad ingredients.
For the anchovy mustard dipping sauce, put the sugar, vinegar, spices and 100ml/3½fl oz water in a pot and bring to the boil. Whisk to dissolve the sugar. Leave to cool and reserve half for the pickled cucumber. Mix the other half with the anchovy oil.
For the pickled cucumber, mix the reserved cucumber strands with ½ tablespoon of salt and set aside for 5 minutes. Wash the cucumber to remove the salt, then drain. Mix with the pickling liquid.
Divide the cod slices bewreen 4 serving plates and serve with the salads and dipping sauce.
By Rick Stein
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