Best Saucy Salmon Recipes

SAUCY SALMON WELLINGTON

Steps:

• Make mushroom onion filling: Melt butter or margarine in skillet and saute onion until lightly browned.
• Add mushrooms and cook, stirring, until most of the liquid has evaporated.
• Season to taste.
• Remove to bowl and chill.
• *Fillingmay be refrigerated up to 2 days or may be frozen.
• Roll half the pastry on a floured board into a rectangle approximately 14 inches long and 12 inches wide.
• Cut into 4 rectangles.
• Repeat with remaining dough.
• Place salmon fillets on a greased baking sheet.
• Tuck the thinner parts of fillet underneath, making them all the same thickness.
• Divide mushroom onion filling among the fillets and spread evenly on top.
• Cover each with a rectangle of pastry.
• Tuck 1/2 inch of pastry under fillets; trim off excess dough.
• Do not cover the entire bottom with pastry or it will become soggy.
• Brush top and sides with egg yolk glaze, being careful not to let glaze drip.
• Re-roll scraps of pastry and cut out small decorations.
• Place on Wellingtons and glaze the entire pastry again.
• *Maybe refrigerated up to 8 hours.
• Make light white wine sauce: Place wine, vinegar and shallots or onion in medium saucepan.
• Bring to a boil, lower the heat, and simmer until slightly thickened and reduced to approximately 4 tablespoons.
• Slowly whisk in the cream.
• Simmer, stirring occasionally, until sauce thickens to desired consistency.
• This will take a little time, but as the water evaporates from the cream, it will thicken.
• Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Stir in chives or parsley.
• Reheat before serving.
• If sauce becomes too thick, thin down with additional wine or cream.
• Serve hot.
• Before serving, bring Wellingtons to room temperature for 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 425F.
• Bake Wellingtons for 20-25 minutes or until the pastry is golden.
• At this time, if the fillets are 3/4 inch thick, they will be moist and flaky.
• Spoon a small amount of sauce on each plate, place Wellingtons on sauce and pass remaining sauce.
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• Bon Appetit!

SAUCY SALMON, FENNEL AND POTATO GRATIN DAUPHINOISE

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 180C/350°F.
• Grease a large and preferably oval or rectangular oven dish (Gratin dish) with half of the butter.
• Layer half of the potatoes on the bottom of the dish, then arrange half of the fennel slices and half of the onion slices over the top. Season well with black pepper and some salt to taste.
• Carefully lay the salmon fillets over the top and continue with the onion, fennel and potato slices in that order - ending with the potatoes.
• Dot with the remaining butter and pour the creme fraiche or milk/cream mixture over the top.
• Season with black pepper and salt.
• Bake for 1 to 1 1/2 hours in a pre-heated oven, until the top is golden brown and the potatoes are soft when tested.
• Serve hot with lemon wedges and the green tops of the fennel bulb; crusty bread and salad would be lovely accompaniments.

SWEET AND SAUCY GRILLED SALMON

Steps:

• Put the jelly, scallions, cilantro, garlic, and lime zest into a food processor. Pulse the processor until the mixture is finely pureed.
• Put in a small saucepan over medium heat, bubbling away for 2-3 minutes. Add to the butter and mix while it all melts into the sauce. Remove from heat and allow to cool.
• Put the salmon face-down (presentation side) onto the foil. You are putting it face-down because during cooking, you will turn the fish over one time only, therefore ending-up with the pretty side face-up so you can re-glaze at the end.
• Now brush the less-attractive bottom side (which is now face-up) with the sauce.
• Put the aluminum foil trays with your salmon onto the grill. Cook for 6-8 minutes. Carefully flip the salmon fillets over with tongs.
• With a spoon, put a thick layer of the glaze on top and let the salmon finish cooking.
• Plate the salmon. Add a little more glaze on top and garnish it with lemon and cilantro.

SWEET AND SAUCY CHARCOAL-GRILLED SALMON WITH LIME-JALAPENO GLAZE

Steps:

• 1. Process jelly, cilantro, lime zest, lime juice, garlic, and scallions in food processor or blender until smooth. Heat glaze in small saucepan over medium heat until just bubbling, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from heat and transfer 1/4 cup glaze to small bowl to cool slightly. Stir butter into glaze remaining in saucepan, cover, and set aside. 2. Light large chimney starter filled with charcoal briquettes (about 100 coals); burn until coals are covered with fine gray ash, about 20 to 25 minutes. Pour coals over three-quarters of grill; set cooking grate in place, cover, and let grill heat up for 5 minutes. 3. Use heavy-duty foil to make four 7 by 5-inch trays. Coat trays with cooking spray. Season salmon with salt and pepper, brush each side of each fillet with 1/2 tablespoon reserved glaze (without butter), and place skinned side up on trays. 4. Place trays with salmon over hot fire and grill until glaze forms golden brown crust, 6 to 8 minutes. (Move fillets to cooler part of the grill if they darken too soon.) Using tongs, flip salmon and cook 1 minute. Spoon half of buttered glaze on salmon and cook until center of each fillet is still just translucent, about 1 minute. Transfer salmon to platter and spoon remaining buttered glaze over it. Serve.

FRESH BROILED SALMON WITH SAUCY CHEESE TORTELLINI

Steps:

• Stir dill into creme fraiche. Cut mozzarella into small pieces and add to creme fraiche and dill. Add the zest from one of the lemons. Pour wine into broiler pan until it's 1/8th inch deep. Spray broiler rack with cooking spray. Place salmon, skin side down on broiler rack. Broil for 10 minutes about 7 inches from heat source.
• Meanwhile, mix mayonnaise, green onions, mustard, garlic, and liquid smoke together in small bowl. After the salmon has cooked for 10 minutes, spread mayonnaise mixture evenly over top of salmon. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Broil until mayonnaise mixture is golden brown and salmon is cooked through, about 6 minutes. If it starts browning too fast, lay foil on top. Time is approximate depending on thickness of fish. Do not overcook. Remove fish to warm plate and keep warm. Pour wine from broiling pan into skillet. Cook on high heat until reduced in half. Take off heat. Whisk creme fraiche mixture into reduced wine. Add any fish juices on plate to mixture and whisk inches Stir constantly until well mixed over low heat. Remove 1/2 cup of sauce and reserve. Toss cooked tortellini in rest of sauce and place on 4 warmed plates. Remove skin from salmon, cut into 4 pieces and place on top of tortellini. Drizzle with reserved sauce. Garnish with parsley and lemon slices.

SAUCY SALMON

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Heat oil in a large saute pan over medium-low heat. Add garlic and cook until soft and golden, about 1 minute. Add diced tomatoes with juice, tomato sauce, red peppers, chili peppers, cumin, coriander and 1/4 teaspoon each salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium-low and simmer for 10 minutes until sauce thickens slightly. Remove from heat, and remove chile peppers.
• Place Swiss chard on the bottom of a 9 by 13-inch glass baking dish. Season fish fillets with remaining salt and pepper and place in on top of chard. Cover with sauce and bake, covered, until fish is just cooked and chard is wilted, about 15 minutes. Remove cover and bake an additional 5 minutes. Sprinkle with cilantro and serve.