Salmon & Buttered Potatoes
Salmon, waxy potatoes and veg all steamed in one oven run, dressed at the end with a lemon-leek butter made on the hob. Fish stays in clean pieces. One oven run plus a small pan, about 35 minutes, mostly passive.
Steam oven + small pan · ~35 min (mostly passive) · serves 5 adults Everything cooks in one oven run — the hob only makes the lemon-leek butter. No onion/garlic.
Ingredients
- 750 g salmon fillets, boneless
- 1.2 kg waxy potatoes, halved (or quartered if large)
- 2 leeks, finely sliced
- 60 g butter
- 1 lemon, zested and juiced
- 2 tbsp fresh dill or parsley, chopped
- ½ tsp salt + pepper
- 1 head broccoli + 4 carrots, cut into batons (visible — kids like seeing them)
Method — by station
The whole main is steamed in one Dampf run, staged so everything finishes together. The lemon-leek butter comes together on the hob meanwhile and dresses the potatoes at the end.
🔥 In the steam oven — Dampf, 100 °C, 100 % humidity (~25 min total)
Steam oven — no preheat needed; set it going from cold.
- Potatoes on the perforated tray, cut-side up. In first:
Dampf, 100 °C, 100 % humidity, 25 min. - After 12 min, open and add the salmon (left whole, unseasoned, on a second tray or solid dish) and the broccoli + carrot batons alongside. Close and continue at the same setting for the remaining ~13 min, until the salmon flakes and a knife slides through the potatoes.
🍳 On the hob — small pan (~8 min, while the oven runs)
- Melt the butter over low heat; add the leek and cook gently ~6 min until soft and silky — no colour.
- Off the heat, stir in the lemon zest, juice and herbs. No salt yet.
🍱 To assemble
- Baby first: set aside a piece of salmon — debone, shred and check carefully for bones and cartilage — with a few plain potatoes and steamed veg. No salt, no leek butter (or just a spoonful, it’s unsalted).
- Children next: their portions of salmon, potatoes and veg, tossed with a little of the leek butter, before any salting.
- Adults: season the remaining leek butter with the salt and pepper, toss through the rest of the potatoes, and box with the salmon and steamed veg. Don’t forget the work portion.
Notes
- Why steamed, not roasted: crisp potatoes don’t survive overnight storage anyway — steamed potatoes in lemon-leek butter reheat the best of any version.
- Reheat: steam oven, lid off,
Dampf, 100 °C, 100 % humidity, ~10–12 min. The salmon stays moist because it was never dried out in the first place. - The salmon is deliberately cooked unseasoned so the baby’s portion needs no separate handling in the oven.
- Keeps 2 days (fish rule). Potatoes alone keep 3.