Dad’s Poached Salmon with Cucumber Sauce

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  4.9 – 8 reviews  • Holiday
Level: Intermediate
Total: 50 min
Prep: 10 min
Cook: 40 min
Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients

  1. Fish head and bones
  2. Few stalks celery, sliced, if desired
  3. 1/2 pound carrots, peeled, sliced, if desired
  4. 1 small bunch parsley
  5. 2 cups dry white wine
  6. Water
  7. Salt
  8. Black peppercorns
  9. 4 (6 to 8-ounce) center cut, skinless, salmon fillets

Instructions

  1. Combine all poaching liquid ingredients in a medium saucepan. Bring the poaching liquid to a very low simmer and cook 30 minutes. Skim the top as needed to remove any foam from the surface. Lay some cheesecloth over the top of the poaching liquid, making a bed for the fillets. Submerge salmon in poaching liquid and cook for 8 to 10 minutes.
  2. 1 English cucumber, unpeeled, roughly chopped
  3. Fronds from 1 bunch dill (about 1 cup)
  4. 1/2 small red onion
  5. 2 large lemons, juiced
  6. 1/3 cup mayonnaise
  7. 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
  8. 1/3 cup yogurt
  9. Salt and freshly ground black pepper
  10. Combine first four ingredients in a blender and puree. Gradually blend in mayonnaise, oil and yogurt and then season, to taste, with salt and pepper.
  11. Serve poached salmon with side of sauce.

Reviews

Sydney Fields
This recipe is the best!!! Not only is the salmon wonderful ,but the cucumber sauce is excellent. We now use the sauce for gyros. My entire family ( 23 of us including neices and nephews loved it. I serve it with marinated flank steak and call it “surf and turf on the cheaper side”.
Samuel Lee
What is Fronds from 1 bunch dill?
Matthew Rodriguez
I fixed this for a dinner party. Everyone loved it. It is also nice that it can be prepared ahead so you don’t miss time with guests working in the kitchen.
I ended up sending the recipe home with our guests!
Denise Richards
I used this recipe just for the cucumber sauce to compliment some stuffed salmon I was making and it was soooo good. I added a tiny bit of dijon mustard for extra zing and it was perfect at our dinner party. I did not try the actual salmon recipe included with this but it sounds great too. Definately will try it next time. I will use this again.
Sierra Hill
I attend classes at a local college and have this for lunch almost once per week.

It packs well and I LOVE IT!

 

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