Poached Salmon With Tarragon Sauce And Fingerling Potatoes

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 2 large bunch fresh tarragon (about 1 ounce total)
• 1 large bunch fresh chives (about 2/3 ounce)
• 1 large shallot
• 3/4 cup fresh flat-leaf parsley
• 1 cup mayonnaise
• 1/3 cup rice vinegar (not seasoned)
• 2 teaspoons dijon mustard
• 2 1/2 cups dry wine
• 2 1/2 cups water
• 3 lbs salmon fillets, with skin
• 1 1/2 lbs pink fingerling potatoes or 1 1/2 lbs other new potatoes
• 1/2 lb cooked sugar snap pea, diagonally cut into thirds

Recipe

• 1 make sauce:.
• 2 pick enough tarragon leaves to measure 1/2 cup (do not pack).
• 3 chop enough chives to measure 1/3 cup.
• 4 coarsely chop shallot.
• 5 in a food processor puree tarragon, chives, and shallot with remaining sauce ingredients until smooth and season with salt and pepper.
• 6 sauce may be made 1 day ahead and chilled, covered.
• 7 bring sauce to cool room temperature before serving.
• 8 make fish:.
• 9 in a deep 10-inch skillet bring wine and water to a simmer, covered.
• 10 cut salmon into 6 pieces and season with salt and pepper.
• 11 submerge 3 salmon pieces, skin sides down, in simmering liquid (add hot water if necessary to just cover salmon) and poach at a bare simmer, covered, 8 minutes, or until just cooked through.
• 12 transfer cooked salmon with a slotted spatula to a platter to cool and poach remaining salmon in same manner.
• 13 when salmon is cool enough to handle, peel off skin and if desired with a sharp knife scrape off any dark meat.
• 14 salmon may be cooked 1 day ahead and chilled, covered.
• 15 bring salmon to cool room temperature before serving.
• 16 assemble:.
• 17 cut potatoes lengthwise into 1/8-inch-thick slices.
• 18 in a steamer set over boiling water steam potatoes until just tender, 4 to 5 minutes.
• 19 spoon sauce onto 6 plates and arrange some potatoes in a circle, overlapping slightly, on top of sauce .
• 20 season potatoes with salt and arrange salmon on top of potatoes.
• 21 garnish salmon with peas.