Such is cooking. Live, learn, and occasionally eat too tart and peppery salmon. Anyway, every time we’d post one of our broiled salmon recipes, I’d get emails from people without broilers asking how they can get the same results, so I figured my little trial by acid would make for a good excuse to show how easy baked salmon is.
As long as you get your oven nice and hot, and aren’t afraid to poke the fish with a fork to check, you should be enjoying tender, moist, flaky meat every time. You can always cook it more, so check after 10 minutes and go from there. If you test in the filet's natural seams, the evidence of your breaking and entering will hardly be noticeable, and easily covered by a sauce or slice of lemon.
If you use my recipe, you may want to adjust the pepper and
acidity of the lemon with something on the sweet side. Pretty much any kind of
glaze or marinade will work with this easy technique, and many of them (most of
them) will look better than this. I hope you give this a try soon. Enjoy!
Ingredients for 2:
two 8-10 oz center-cut salmon filets, boned, skin on
two 8-10 oz center-cut salmon filets, boned, skin on
2 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp black pepper
1 tsp miso paste
2 tsp mustard
1 1/2 tbsp mayo
cayenne to taste
salt to taste
*Next time I’ll add some Hoisin sauce or something sweet to
balance the flavors better.
Bake at 450 degrees F. 10-15 min or until done.
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Bake at 450 degrees F. 10-15 min or until done.
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23 comments:
It doesn't look THAT bad...
I basically tried this with my canned tuna :P
I also didn't have miso so I substituted it with chili garlic
I also didn't have mayonnaise so I put in creamy yogurt.
I put in 1 tsp honey because I wasn't able to read the hoisin sauce note.
It was delicious! It's good to eat as a dish if I had a real block of salmon but since I didn't it was soooo good as a salmon wrap. :)
I hope my taking liberty on this recipe doesn't offend you, Chef :( I love your cooking.
Offend me?! Never! Sounds good!
Hey Chef John on the fish topic I have a challenge for you! on that show top chef they made a potato wrapped fish dish. I do a lot of spearfishing(I get a lot of hogfish) I tried the famouse "Le Cirque potato wrapped fish" and it was a disaster. Are you up for the challenge??
I would sack the mayo, definitely add hoisin. The Moosewood people did a healthy cookbook and one of their recipes is a backed salmon in a miso-hoisin sauce and it is delicious. This video reminded me of that and I need to go back to it. If you really wanted the straight lemon-pepper route, I would again sack the mayo (ok, not a fan of baked mayo here, though I love it on sandwiches and in tuna/chicken/lobster/crab/egg salad) and add honey. If you add buckwheat honey, it will give some of the earthiness that hoisin brings along with the sweet but won't interfere with the lemon/pepper/dijon thing.
Thank you for posting about a recipe that wasn't quite right for your tastes. So many times I think about blogging a recipe I tried but I run into a similar problem and I hesitate to post about it since I don't feel it's quite right.
IMHO one of the best things about cooking is getting the recipe just right for your personal tastes. You've inspired me o blog my " not quite right but still yummy" attempts as well.
Actually I think wild salmon is flash frozen when caught to preserve the freshness during transportation. So frozen wild is your best option!
This still looks good! Maybe a little paprika on top for color and a little honey in the glaze.
A good flavorful beer like a locally brewed amber works well in the marinade. The sweetness will balance out the flavor profile and beer will give the fish a nice carmelized color. Cheers.
I'm just going to confirm that this recipe is amazing with the hoisin, salmon was perfectly cooked after 15 minutes.
Another gem from Food Wishes !
Try white pepper next time
Chef John,
Try white pepper next time.
Hey chef John. Recently i tried your recipe but something turned out wrong. The sauce, turned yellow instead of white. Can you help me with that? Thanks.
Sorry, no idea!
Hello chef John!! I've always loved watching your cooking videos & find them very entertaining, makes me hungry every time I watch them haha, your cooking techniques are very useful too!! I tried your reciepe on the lemon pepper salmon & turned out perfect!! Thank you so much & keep up the great work :)
Thank you! I was always baking my salmon at too low of a temp, now I know! Your videos are so helpful!
I added some prepared horseradish since I had some lying around. Also didn't have Dijon mustard. Turned out great!
I made this tonight with the following ingredients:
1 TBS Dijon mustard
1/2 lime juiced
1 tsp honey
1 tsp freshly ground black pepper
1 tsp salt
light coat of olive oil before putting the above on the salmon.
I cooked it immediately on the stovetop 5 minutes max (wife couldn't wait an hour) but I'd let it marinate for an hour before frying off in a little bit of peanut oil.
This isn't the final answer, but it was good, well, better than good. The longer we lingered, the better it got.
I am not sure a whether it was the mayonnaise I used or the Salmon itself, but it turned out extremely fatty... I used lime instead of lemon and it worked fine and left a mild lime aroma, which was actually remarkable. If I try again, I will probably add the honey and a little bit of olive oil or melted butter to the mixture.
I wanted to go with a baked salmon instead of pan seared so I used your video as a guideline. My topping used some of your ingredients, whatever I had (i.e. no mayo, subbed Sriracha}. I put mine on a wire rack in a roaster because I like a crisp skin. It came out just like yours, which is a little too raw for me so I put it back in for 12 minutes and it was perfect, dare I say, better than some I've had in restaurants. Thank you.
Salmon is brushed with butter and soy sauce, and sprinkled with lemon pepper. So easy and quick, and so delicious!Just don't over bake it. Err on the side of slightly underdone as it will continue to bake a little bit after you take it out of the oven. I'll also tried Oven Baked Salmon ,Salmon tastes much better if it is moist. Atlantic salmon? Try about 10-12 minutes at 350 degrees per inch of thickness. Minimal spices such as salt and pepper and maybe some fresh dill. Yummy and good for you.
I just tried baking salmon (at the temperature and times in your recipe) with just MAYO for the first time ever...that alone brought it up to a whole new level. I don't know if I'll ever go back to using butter!
I just tried baking salmon (at the temperature and times in your recipe) with just MAYO for the first time ever...that alone brought it up to a whole new level. I don't know if I'll ever go back to using butter!
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