Cook this: Ginger salmon with lemon dill sauce
For this weekÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Cook This, chef Shereen Pavlides makes ginger salmon with dill sauce.
Ginger salmon with lemon dill sauce
Serves: 4 Prep time: 10 minutes Cook time: 5 minutes
For the sauce:
1 freshly squeezed lemon plus zest (2 tablespoons)
3 tablespoons chopped dill.
For the fish:
2 teaspoons ground cumin
¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/3 cup all purpose flour
4 (6 ounce) skinned center-cut salmon fillets (1½ pounds total)
2 tablespoons canola oil plus extra
Kosher salt
Fresh finely ground black pepper
For the sauce:
Whisk sour cream, lemon juice, zest, dill and honey into a medium bowl until smooth.
For the fish:
Whisk ginger, cumin and cayenne into a small bowl.
Place flour into a wide, rimmed bowl. Set both aside.
Heat a 12-inch frying pan over medium high for 2 minutes. Meanwhile, rub both sides of the salmon fillets with a little canola oil and the ginger rub.
Season salmon all over with kosher salt and 4 turns on the pepper mill.
Then dredge each fillet into the flour, shaking off the excess.
When the pan is hot, add 2 tablespoons canola oil into the pan and heat the oil until it shimmers and almost smokes, 15 to 30 seconds.
Place the salmon fillets, top sides down into the bottom of the pan.
Sear until golden browned, 2 to 3 minutes. Using a fish spatula, flip the salmon over and sear until lightly browned on the other side and cooked medium doneness, 1 to 2 minutes.
Drizzle lemon dill sauce over the salmon fillets, crosswise.

