Baked salmon and peaches
12-27-09 · Christmas & Holidays, Fish & seafood Tags: fruits
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A gamble that paid off. I wanted fish (after the ox tongue and pork ribs, fish was a welcome respite) but I wanted something festive. It was the day after Christmas and I was still in holiday mode, after all. What I wasn’t in the mood for was frying. So, I thawed a fillet of salmon, looked through the pantry and saw this can of peaches. Why not?
There are no real measurements for this recipe as everything depends on the size of the salmon fillet. I can tell you though that a can of peaches is more than enough. Including preparation time, this dish cooks in 30 minutes. If you’re thinking of serving a fish dish for the New Year’s Eve party, I wouldn’t be shy to recommend this. The sweetness of the peaches mixing with the slightly salty salmon and the richness of butter was great.
Ingredients:
skinless salmon fillet
salt
sliced peaches (canned), including the syrup
some chopped parsley
melted butter
Cut horizontal slits on the salmon fillet about an inch and a half apart and about half an inch deep. Make sure you do not cut all the way through the salmon flesh so that the fillet remains in one piece.
Salt the salmon and make sure that salt gets into those slits.
Line a baking pan with foil then top with non-stick baking paper. Carefully position the salted salmon fillet on the lined baking pan.
Take the peach slices and insert a piece into each slit.
Sprinkle some chopped parsley (I used dried).
Drizzle about half a cup of peach syrup over the fish.
Bake in a 475F oven for 10 minutes then lower the heat to 425F and bake for another 10 minutes.
Take the pan out of the oven. By holding the edges of the foil lining, transfer the fish, foil and all, onto a platter. Cut off the excess foil and paper.
Drizzle the melted butter over the salmon and peaches.
Brown the top of the baked salmon by using a kitchen (butane) torch or by broiling the fish in the oven. If broiling, set the broiler to the highest temperature, place the fish about six inches from the heat and broil just until the top browns slightly.
Serve at once.
What an interesting idea. We eat salmon once a week. I’ll give this at try. It looks delicious!
Even my teenaged girls loved it and my youngest is requesting me to make it again.
wow! perfect timing..have just bought a fillet of salmon and wondered what to do with it.. it was massive!… id probablyl do the half with this recipe.. thanks miss connie!
my husband says he will try this dish.we are not picky eater, tonite he had steamed brocholi and i had rice and eggplant (cooked in microwave for 6
minute) with soy sauce.love reading your blog even if don’t really cook.
My family loves this recipe! We love salmon and a new recipe was just what we needed! My kids love the sweet taste of the peaches and it really went well with the salmon. Will definitely cook this again!
Wanna try this for dinner today… My hubby will surely like this… Thanks for sharing Ms. Connie! More power!..