Cooking Salmon

[bobspud]

The dryness will depend on If the salmon is wild or farmed as farmed salmon tends to have a very high oil content. So don't go near a farmed salmon with oil.

I would wash the fish and pat dry.
Place it on a non stick tray and sprinkle with salt pepper and (optionally 5 spice or the African BBQ spice that you can get from sainsbury's)
Then grill it for about five minutes or till golden brown on top then place it into a hot (230ish) oven to finish off.

You will get a nice roasted salmon with a crisp crust on top.
Serve it with steamed veg and new potatoes.

It's much harder to cook a fish in a foil package as the fish often ends up over done and too wet.

[oracleslave]

Salmon, oats and mustard is my preferred combination.

Something along these lines.

Oats and You - Recipes - Mustard Salmon Crust with Roasted Peppers and Beans - Quaker Oats UK

[MarillionFan]

Depends how bit a piece you have, but if it's for two, I wrap it in a loose but sealed foil parcel with a decent splash of wine (nothing too dry, pinot grigio is good) with tarragon, dill, black pepper and a knob of butter and put it in a 180 degree oven for 20 minutes. Don't use lemon or lime, it will kill the sublety of the salmon.

Or google Nigel Slater - he's a genius at simple cooking...

It's about 16 inches. Quite a large bit to be honest. I cooked one before which had a sauce/baste over it which was nice but a little dry.

Do I need to cut it or just wrap the whole thing?

[MarillionFan]

The dryness will depend on If the salmon is wild or farmed as farmed salmon tends to have a very high oil content. So don't go near a farmed salmon with oil.

I would wash the fish and pat dry.
Place it on a non stick tray and sprinkle with salt pepper and (optionally 5 spice or the African BBQ spice that you can get from sainsbury's)
Then grill it for about five minutes or till golden brown on top then place it into a hot (230ish) oven to finish off.

You will get a nice roasted salmon with a crisp crust on top.
Serve it with steamed veg and new potatoes.

It's much harder to cook a fish in a foil package as the fish often ends up over done and too wet.

Read on. Cheers.

[Zippy]

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It's much harder to cook a fish in a foil package as the fish often ends up over done and too wet.

You can open the package for the last couple of minutes and the fish will dry out a little... sorry, could someone direct me to the single entendre thread?

[bobspud]

Read on. Cheers.

If your salmon is dry then you are over cooking it. It's an oily fish and it's not hard to roast it in it's own oils. I learned to do it in a knackered old BT electric oven at a telephone exchange. It only had two heat settings off and hell!

Listen for the oils sizzling as they run out of the fish.

Good luck.

[mudskipper]

Stick it in the dishwasher

Place the fish on two large sheets of aluminum foil. Squeeze on some lemon juice and place the pats of butter on the salmon fillets. Seal the fillets well in the foil, and place the foil packet in the top wire basket of your electric dishwasher. DO NOT ADD SOAP OR DETERGENT. Close the dishwasher door, set the dishwasher on the hottest wash cycle, complete with drying cycle, and let it run through a full cycle. When the cycle is complete the fish will be cooked just right.

Wine X Magazine

[MarillionFan]

Place the fish on two large sheets of aluminum foil. Squeeze on some lemon juice and place the pats of butter on the salmon fillets. Seal the fillets well in the foil, and place the foil packet in the top wire basket of your electric dishwasher. DO NOT ADD SOAP OR DETERGENT. Close the dishwasher door, set the dishwasher on the hottest wash cycle, complete with drying cycle, and let it run through a full cycle. When the cycle is complete the fish will be cooked just right.

Wine X Magazine

did this. But in oven.

Perfect.

[Ruprect]

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[mudskipper]

did this. But in oven.

Perfect.

Cooking in an oven? Where's the fun in that?