Best Salmon With Caper Anchovy Butter Recipes

SALMON WITH CAPER-ANCHOVY BUTTER

Steps:

• Caper Anchovy Butter: Blend the first 7 ingredients in a food processor. Add butter and process until well blended. Season to taste with salt.
• Lay sheet of plastic wrap on work surface and transfer butter mixture to plastic wrap. Let it chill for 15 minutes until it hardens somewhat, then roll to form 9-inch-long log.
• Freeze until firm, about 1 hour. (the butter can be made a week ahead of time).
• Position oven rack about 6 inches below broiler; preheat broiler. Place salmon fillets on broiler pan and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Broil salmon until just cooked through, about 8 minutes.
• Cut caper-anchovy butter into 1/2-inch-thick slices and top the salmon -- or melt the butter slightly and pour over the salmon.

NORWEGIAN-STYLE POACHED SALMON WITH ANCHOVY BUTTER

Steps:

• In a small bowl combine well the butter, the parsley, the anchovy paste, and freshly ground black pepper to taste and reserve the anchovy butter, covered. In a saucepan combine the onion, the vinegar, the sugar, the peppercorns, the coriander seeds, the mustard seeds, the salt, and 4 cups water, bring the mixture to a boil, and simmer if for 15 minutes. Strain the mixture through a fine sieve into a deep heavy skillet just large enough to hold the salmon in one layer. Add the salmon, bring the liquid to a simmer, and poach the salmon, covered, for 8 to 10 minutes, or until it just flakes. Transfer the salmon steaks with a slotted spatula to plates, letting the poaching liquid drain off, and divide the reserved anchovy butter between them.

SALMON WITH ANCHOVY-GARLIC BUTTER

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400 degrees. In a small bowl, mash together butter, anchovies, garlic, salt and pepper.
• In a large ovenproof skillet, melt about half the anchovy butter. Add fish, skin side down. Cook for 3 minutes over high heat to brown the skin, spooning some pan drippings over the top of the fish as it cooks. Add capers to bottom of pan and transfer to oven. Roast until fish is just cooked through, 8 to 10 minutes.
• Remove pan from oven and add remaining anchovy butter to pan to melt. Place salmon on plates and spoon buttery pan sauce over the top. Squeeze the lemon half over the salmon and garnish with chopped parsley. Serve.