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Salmon Provencal Recipe

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Salmon Provencal

Here's a salmon dish made for summer. Fresh tomatoes, fresh chopped herbs, a few shallots, lemon juice, balsamic and olive oil make a perfect sauce to accompany baked salmon fillets.

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Salmon Provencal Recipe

Ingredients

3 large plum tomatoes
3 shallots, coarsely chopped
1 Tbsp coarsely chopped fresh tarragon
1 Tbsp coarsely chopped fresh basil
1 Tbsp coarsely chopped fresh chives
1 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
1 Tbsp balsamic vinegar
Salt
2 Tbsp olive oil
4 salmon fillets, about 5-6 ounces each

Method

1 Preheat oven to 400°F.

2 Blanch the tomatoes by plunging them into a pot of simmering salted water for 15-30 seconds, then plunging them into ice water for 1 minute. Drain the tomatoes and peel off and discard the skin. Cut the tomatoes into quarters, remove the core, seeds, and dice the flesh.

3 In a large bowl combine the tomatoes, shallots, tarragon, basil, and chives. In another bowl, whisk together the lemon juice, vinegar, olive oil and salt to taste. Add to the tomato mixture, toss to coat.

4 Arrange salmon fillets on an oiled baking sheet without crowding. Drizzle with olive oil and season lightly with salt. Bake until salmon is barely cooked through and lightly browned on the edges, 10-12 minutes.

5 To serve, spoon a couple tablespoons of the tomato mixture over each fillet. Serve immediately.

Serves 4.

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Posted by Elise on Aug 1, 2007 and indexed Salmon

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Comments

Just the inducement I needed to stop at the market and pick up salmon on my way home today!

Posted by: lydia on August 2, 2007 3:38 AM

Salmon Provencal, isn't that an oxymoron!

Posted by: Kevin on August 2, 2007 3:59 AM

I absolutely love the sound of this. Sounds like a fantastic way to cook salmon.

Posted by: Kalyn on August 2, 2007 4:30 AM

This sounds exciting and most importantly, do-able. I'd like to try this next time I cook for my parents.

Posted by: hyo on August 2, 2007 4:56 AM

It looks delicious, Elise!

Posted by: Patricia Scarpin on August 2, 2007 8:48 AM

Do you think that this recipe would be good with ahi tuna or red snapper? Thanks, Looks great.

Posted by: Candice on August 2, 2007 9:59 AM

Ok - so basil, tomato and salmon is NOT a bad combination! Hooray! I almost did this last night while poaching a filet (thanks for that recipe), and worried that the flavors would not work together. Glad I have a thumbs-up from Elise to try it again. And, speaking of poached salmon, I don't know that I'll make it any other way. It was more flavorful than I thought it would be, and incredibly moist. Thanks!

Posted by: Miche on August 2, 2007 2:52 PM

I love to eat Salmon! Your dish look too tempting to be missed. Yummy, definitely will give it a try. :)

Posted by: Steve Sim on August 3, 2007 9:01 PM

Hi Elise!

What a perfect summer dish! I *heart* salmon - not to mention, fresh tomatoes, basil and olive oil. It looks lovely. ~ Karina

Posted by: Karina on August 4, 2007 6:03 AM

One restaurant I worked at long ago served a sage-flour dusted sauteed salmon fillet with a rich lemon butter cream sauce full of tomatoes, basil and capers. I could never resist it! Your recipe was so delicious and so much easier (and healthier) we never missed the butter sauce at all. I'm thinking chopped Kalamata olives or artichokes might be really good in it too.

Posted by: Cary on August 4, 2007 7:47 AM

Oh, this looks positively smashing. Definitely on the "Must Make Soon!" list.

Posted by: Christiane on August 5, 2007 2:39 PM

I live in Alaska and am always looking for new ways to cook salmon. Freshness in produce is not always the best so for this recipe I used canned italian seasoned tomatoes and dried italian seasoning and it turned out really well.

Posted by: Dana on August 6, 2007 11:35 AM

This sounds great! My husband recently went Great Lake fishing and caught several salmon. I was looking for some good ways to cook all this fish we have, and I will definitely try this. Thanks!

Posted by: Mindy on August 8, 2007 8:40 AM

My fiance and I had this last night for dinner - so wonderful!!

Posted by: ~M on September 6, 2007 8:31 AM

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