Crispy Salmon with Buttery Wine Sauce

Crispy Salmon is not a very popular recipe, as most people like to have their salmon without the skin. But when done right, the crispyness of the skin will balance itself perfectly with an aromatic wine sauce. 

The key to perfecting this recipe is to perfectly crisp up the salmon skin, but also perfectly execut the sauce. 

Getting a good crispy salmon skin: Very easy, but easy to mess up. You do not want to have to much of a high heat, or you will burn the skin, and it will give you a bitter unpleasant taste.

Instead cook the salmon on medium heat, and start by cooking the salmon skin side. The pan should be hot and have oil on it. Do not flip the salmon until it releases from the pan. You can verify if the salmon skin is ready by gently pressing on it. If the skin bubbles, it means it still has moisture (not crispy yet). It will release once the moisture is gone.

The sauce:

It is important to cook the sauce without the fish in the pan, or you will reintroduce moisture in the pan, which will ruin your crispy skin.

The secret to this sauce is to not burn the aromatics or butter. You want to first introduce the wine on the hot pan, a lot of steam should be released right away, then put butter, lots of butter. And then all the aromatics. The aromatics should cook in the wine and butter, and the texutre of the sauce should be velvetty. 

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Crispy Salmon with Wine Sauce


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  • Author: Kellian Debargis

Description

Crispy Salmon skin served with a buttery and velvetty wine sauce. Perfect for any date night.


Ingredients

  • Salmon (1-3 fillets)
  • Butter (50g)
  • White Wine (150ml)
  • 1 Shallot
  • Ginger
  • 2 Garlic Cloves
  • Savory
  • Hollandaise Sauce (optional)
  • Salt

Instructions

  1. Prep: Cut a Salmon fillet into equal servings (with skin on), dice very finely, shallots, ginger and garlic.
  2. In a pan on medium heat, drizzle oil and place salmon skin on the pan. It will take some time for the skin to becom crispy, make sure to not move salmon to much and let the pan do the work to avoid the skin getting stuck to the pan.
  3. Once the salmon has released from the pan you can flip the salmon to verify crispyness of the skin, and keep salmon on pan till cooked.
  4. Once salmon is cooked and skin is cirspy, place salmon skin side up in a deep plate or bowl.
  5. Right away place white win in the hot pan, then put butter, ginger, shallots, garlic, a few pinches of salt, and a some fresh or dried savory. The sauce should cook for a few minutes, and you should smell the aromatics. Make sure to control the heat on the pan to not burn your armoatics. Once ready, the sauce should have a yellowish velvetty texture, and you should smell all the aromatics of the shallots, garlic and ginger.
  6. Once sauce is ready, strain the sauce with a chinois or strainer and drizzle the sauce around the fish (not on the skin).
  7. Feel free to garnish with herbs and hollandaise sauce (optional).

Bon Appetit!

Notes

  • The hollandaise sauce is optional, and only used for garnich (the yellow dots on the picture above).
  • The savory is also optional, but will add a little more flavour to your sauce

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Welcome to my blog! My name is Kellian, I am a new grad and love cooking for friends and family. I only use the best and freshest ingredients!