Baked Salmon with Tarragon - Lemon Sauce
Servings: 4
Serving Size: 6 ounces
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Ingredients
- 4 salmon pieces, fillet or steak, about 6 ounces each
- 1 small onion
- 1 lemon
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1/2 cup white wine
- 1 tablespoon tarragon (or more, to taste)
- salt and pepper 
 
Lemon is delicious paired with rich fish such as salmon; in this recipe the mild anise flavor of
tarragon adds a refreshing new dimension.
 
Directions
  • Preheat oven to 375° F.  Lightly salt and pepper salmon and arrange in a single
    layer in a lightly oiled baking dish. Bake  8  - 10 minutes, depending on thickness,

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until the fish appears opaque and is easily flaked with a fork.
  • While the oven heats and the
    fish bakes, prepare the sauce (can also be done ahead). Zest and juice the lemon. (See
    TIP, below)  Chop the onion. In a small skillet, melt butter. Add onion and cook
    2 minutes over medium heat (to soften, not brown). Add wine, lemon juice and zest, and cook until
    liquid is reduced to 3 or 4 tablespoons. Chop tarragon finely and add to sauce. Mix well and set
    aside.
  • When fish is done, spoon sauce over it and serve
    immediately.            
  • TIP: to zest a lemon,
    remove only the yellow part of the skin. The inner white part is very bitter. Use a small sharp
    knife or a zester, a tool specially designed for zesting .  If using a knife, finely
    chop the  zest. Zest is easiest to remove before cutting or juicing the lemon, 
    but juiced  rinds, if frozen for 5 - 10 minutes, are easy to zest. Some cooks freeze
    and save their lemon rinds to always have a ready source of zest.                                                


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