Best fish companions: crème fraîche and dill

Dill and crème fraîche are fish mates made in heaven. You can only improve those with some sea salt and coarsely ground black pepper - but not too much, not to ruin the delicate flavour balance.

Here dill and crème fraîche are happily married to poached salmon and sweet and succulent Greenland shrimp.

In our family this combination is traditionally used for fried carassius, a common Russian fresh water fish with excruciatingly bony but divinely sweet flesh, "karas' v smetane".