Stir-fry with love

Which cooking method you feel is the healthiest?
For me the stir fry is one of the healthiest cooking methods. It requires less oil,cooking is fast and the ingredients retain their texture.

Which ingredient according to you,outside salt,makes a dish tasty?
Well all the ingredients have their own taste. It is their natural flavour which makes a dish tasty and I feel it is better to keep it that way.

Do you prefer Indian or Continental food?
Personally I prefer Indian food,with its rich spices that tantalize the taste buds. However at a professional level,I prefer continental food.

Which is the one dish that reminds you of home?
Kadi khichadi. A spoonful into my mouth and memories come flooding into my head.

Puneites are sworn foodies,are they experimentative too?
They are foodies as much as they are experimentative. With off beat food festivals like Mango Promotion,British Food Festival and German Food Promotion held successfully in the city are witness to the fact.

Which dish is the best representative of Indian cuisine?
For me the dal makhani and the kacche gosht biryani is what that represents Indian cuisine best. However,there would be more because the varied cuisine of the land cannot be represented by one dish alone.

SALMON STEAK BAKED IN SALT CRUST
Ingredients
Salmon
Salmon steak– 200gm
Rock salt– 70g
Egg white– 1 tea spoon

Salt,Clarified butter
Pie Sauce
White onion chopped– 100gm
Pies– 300gm
Fish stock– 0.7Liter

Salt,pepper,Side dishes
White asparagus– 3 piece
Mashed potato– 1 portion
Green asparagus– – 1 spoon
Tomato salsa– 1 spoon

Method
Put the rock salt and the egg white together in a whisk and mix until get a meringue paste. Heat a frying pan with clarified butter and sear the with salt seasoned salmon steak skin side down until crisp,Turn skin side up and arrange the salt paste on top of the skin and put by 70 degrees Celsius in the preheated oven and bake ready for 10 minutes. For the pea sauce heat a sauce pot with clarified butter and sweat the onions until soft. Pour in the fish stock,add the pea and cook until done. Blend,strain and reduce again until right consistence. Finishing season until the right taste. Assemble the plate: Arrange the mashed potatoes and white asparagus like on the picture,set the salmon on top (remove the salt crust,drizzle around the pea sauce and spoon the asparagus-,tomato salsa on top of the salmon.