Samphire

[bellazella]

Noticed in the asda magazine a recipe using this, anyone tried it and what did you think?

[DTCwordfan]

really good,especially with fish

The idea of tossing samphire with pasta to look like green and white paglia e fieno noodles comes from Richard Mabey's seminal Food For Free.

Add fish to make a meal of it, and provides the fishy balance to samphire.

Serves four.

500g fresh marsh samphire
Sea salt and ground black pepper
350g fettucine, spaghetti (or linguine)
1-2 tbsp olive oil
500g organic salmon or wild sea trout fillets
A good knob of butter
Juice of half a lemon

Pick over and wash the samphire as outlined in the previous recipe. Bring to the boil a large pan of water, salt it generously and drop in your pasta. Boil for eight to nine minutes, or whatever the packet recommends. Add the samphire to the pasta pan for the last two minutes of cooking time.

Meanwhile, heat a little olive oil in a frying pan over a medium heat. Season the fish fillets, add to the pan and fry until just cooked through: two to three minutes a side. Flake the cooked fish off its skin, removing any bones that you find as you do so.

Drain the spaghetti and samphire, then tip them back into the hot saucepan. Add a good knob of butter, a dash of olive oil and plenty of black pepper, and toss together. Transfer to warmed plates and scatter the flaked fish on top. Finish off each portion with a squeeze of lemon juice and a few additional twists of black pepper.

[annadomino]

Love it, just needs cooking for 10 mins or so, no salt.
A neighbours keeps me supplied during the sason. She picks it from the rocks.
Lovely to eat with fish especially.

[bellazella]

Sounds lovely thank you

[mrs_overall]

Bella, it tastes gorgeous.
Despite living at the coast, it doesn't grow around here, so I buy it from the fishmongers

[bellazella]

Is it like a salty green bean?

[DTCwordfan]

There weren't any paedophiles when I was a lad in Yorkshire, you had to buy your own sweets.

[mrs_overall]

bella, it's got a taste all of its own

Best just flash fried so it stays nice and crunchy

[shaneystar2]

Poor mans asparagus .We eat quite a bit of it here in Norfolk.We call it sampha .
Just steam it for a few minutes and eat it with melted butter .Needs to be a bit crisp not sloppy .Lovely.It is very slightly salty .

[DTCwordfan]

sorry there,didnt realise that I had put it here - t'was destined for the Yorkshire drug thread.....

[humbersloop]

^^ go with shaney. It's gorgeous, specially with fish.

[vivandorron]

shaneystar' is correct in saying it's poor man's asparagus'. I have seen recipes which suggest using it in place of asparagus.

It is worth trying but there is a season for it and I think that it is possibly best during July/August.

Ron.

[vivandorron]

P.S.......

http://www.samphire.org.uk/

Ron.