How To Cook A Salmon Fillet
How to cook salmon fillet? There must be a thousand ways to cook salmon fillet! Where should one start... You could try a simple recipe by cooking your salmon oven-baked, dipped in seasoned wholemeal flour until crisp and tasty. You could try another fairly simple recipe by hot grilling your salmon for a few minutes before glazing it with a mixture of brown sugar, lemon, butter and cayenne, and then serving with a garnish of dill. Or you could quick fry your salmon covered in a crushed black peppercorn and Dijon mustard sauce, finished off with a whisky, butter and double cream mixture, enhanced with freshly chopped chives. How to cook salmon fillet? You are truly spoiled for choice.
Salmon is a most versatile fish. It lends itself to what must be the widest variety of recipes of any fish. It's hardly possible to go wrong, and very easy to produce something so mouthwateringly tasty that your family will sit up and take notice and ask, "How did you do that?" Never reveal your source of a good recipe, though, for a good recipe is a thing of beauty that can be taken anywhere and will delight those who are fortunate enough to encounter it for generations to come.
It isn't always so much the question of how to cook salmon fillets that is important, but why should you cook them. The answer is simple. Salmon is a fish that is rich in omega-3 fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, and protein. It has been credited with many health benefits, from being able to reduce the chances of a heart attack, to preventing or delaying the chances of developing Alzheimers disease. Salmon really is a storehouse of good healthy energy. It's literally bursting at the seams with goodness and should be a regular part of everyone's diet.
Wild salmon is always preferable to farmed salmon where possible, and now organic salmon is becoming increasingly available and very competitively priced too. Salmon fillets are really the best starting point for cooking this fish. Salmon steaks are great too, but they generally lack the sheer versatility of fillets, which can be used in just about any recipe involving salmon.
As with any fish, it takes roughly 10 minutes of normal cooking time to cook one inch, or 25 millimetres, thickness of fish flesh. To know when it's ready, the simple test is to look for opaque flesh that will spring back to shape when pressed. It will also flake easily if pierced and twisted with a fork. If you need to further test it, try tasting it. It should be moist and succulent and simply perfect.
Some may have concerns about the possibility of pollution through contaminates in salmon raised in farmed conditions. This is a hotly debated issue, and while wild or organic salmon are probably the safest bet, the risks of pollution and contamination in farmed salmon are greatly outweighed by the sheer benefits of consuming this amazing fish. Don't worry too much about how to cook salmon fillet. Just make sure you do it often.
