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Smoked eel with horseradish recipe

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Ingredients

  • 15 g fresh horseradish, grated and soaked in 2 tbsp hot water
  • 1 tbsp white wine vinegar
  • pinch of caster sugar
  • 150 ml double cream, lightly whipped
  • pinch of English mustard powder
  • Squeeze of lime
  • 200 g hot smoked English eel fillet
  • Bread and butter, to serve

Method

  1. Drain the soaked horseradish and combine it with the vinegar, sugar, lightly whipped cream, mustard powder and lime juice; season.
  2. Slice the hot-smoked eel thinly and arrange four or five slices on each plate.
  3. Add the horseradish cream and serve with bread and butter.