Best Tarragon Yogurt Sauce Recipes

SALMON WITH TARRAGON-YOGURT SAUCE

Steps:

• Make sauce: Stir together yogurt, chopped tarragon, and lemon zest and juice; season with salt and pepper.
• Heat broiler, with rack set 4 inches from heat. Line a rimmed baking sheet with aluminum foil. Place salmon on sheet, and season with salt and pepper. Broil until opaque throughout, 8 to 10 minutes. (Keep at room temperature up to 1 hour.) Serve salmon, garnished with tarragon leaves, with sauce alongside.

TARRAGON YOGURT SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a pan over medium heat, and saute the onion and garlic until translucent. Stir 2 tablespoons cornstarch into 2 tablespoons chicken stock to make a slurry. Add the remaining chicken stock to the onion/garlic mixture and bring to simmer. Add the slurry and bring to boil. When the mixture comes to a boil, remove from the heat. Add the salt, pepper, tarragon, and yogurt and heat until warmed through, but do not boil, about 1 minute.
• Pour milk into small saucepan and whisk in powdered milk and honey. Place over medium heat and bring to 120 degrees F on an instant read thermometer. Once milk has reached 120 degrees F, pour into a cylindrical plastic container, reserving 1/2 cup. Whisk in the reserved 1/2 cup into the yogurt and add back to the milk mixture.
• Place container into a narrow wine bucket, lined with a heating pad. Set the heating pad to medium. Let the mixture ferment for 3 to 12 hours making sure the temperature stays as close to 115 degrees F as possible.
• After fermentation is complete place into the refrigerator overnight.

WILD SALMON WITH TARRAGON YOGURT SAUCE

Steps:

• Pat dry Salmon and place in a baking dish, sprinkle with salt and pepper and drizzle with enough Tarragon vinegar to coat. Set aside. Lightly toast fennel seeds in a dry heavy bottom pan on medium heat or under the broiler. (This toasting step is optional). Pulverize the seeds in a mortal and pestle or in a spice grinder. In a mixing bowl combine yogurt, tarragon, fennel seed powder with a tablespoon of tarragon vinegar, season lightly with salt and pepper. Set aside. Run your knife through the olives, roughly chop set aside. Heat a large skillet, add the butter and oil, when shimmering at salmon skin side down, sear for about three or four minutes, medium high heat. Flip and sear the other side for three or four more minutes, peel of skin if desired. Remove fish back to baking dish, tent with foil. The fat should be almost gone, just enough to cook the olives for two minutes. Add wine, deglaze the plan and let reduce to about half. Lower heat wisk in the yogurt mixture when well mixed pour over the fish and place under the broiler until desired doness. Serve, with broccole, risotto and salad.

SALMON WITH TARRAGON YOGURT SAUCE

Steps:

• For sauce: stir first 3 ingredients together. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Refrigerate. For fish: season with salt and pepper. Grill or broil until fish is opaque. Garnish with fresh tarragon. Serve fish with sauce on the side.