Smoky Lemon Roasted Salmon

with Lemon Tahini Yogurt Sauce. I like to enjoy this beautiful hunk of fish on a bed of spinach leaves with fresh tomatoes, marinated feta and vidalia onions. My daughter prefers her salmon with Basmati rice with a squeeze of lemon and a sprinkle of parsley.

My kids and I make a trip to the coffee shop and then a stop at Costco every weekend, usually on Saturdays. We play Wordscapes together at the coffee shop (which is great fun!) and then we head over to Costco, just down the street, and wander around looking at all the good Costco things. We usually find something we just gotta have. Lately I’ve been trying to scale back on our Costco spending, so when we walked by the fresh salmon and my daughter was suddenly struck with salmon love, I was really reluctant to jump on that wagon.

We continued our shopping trip, passing by the frozen panko shrimp (that is also really good) and my daughter wanted that too. I caved. The shrimp made it into the cart. And then we got to talking about what she really wanted more … panko shrimp or salmon. Well, really she wanted both, but the salmon was the thing that was really calling to her. So we put the shrimp back and went back over to pick out a smaller hunk of salmon.

The smaller hunk of salmon was still a HUGE fish (IMHO). I made her dinner with the end piece and some basmati rice, myself a salad with another good-size chunk, and then froze three more pieces (individually wrapped) for future salmon endeavors.

I could see by the look on her face that my daughter was in culinary heaven as she ate her salmon, so I decided I needed to record this recipe for future meals. … Whether you enjoy this salmon with salad or with rice, if you watch the salmon carefully and take it out of the oven just as it gets to that flake-tender stage, this recipe is heavenly, yet easy and quick. It’s just a matter of sprinkling the salmon with seasonings, squeeze the lemon juice over top and then baking until flake tender. Right after you put the salmon in the oven is the time to whisk together the ingredients for the sauce.

Where to buy salmon for this recipe?

Costco has beautiful salmon, but another great source for wild caught salmon is Wild Alaskan. I like Wild Alaskan because it’s:

• Sustainable harvested
• Never farmed or genetically modified, no antibiotics used
• Flash frozen, carefully packaged and shipped with dry ice
  Perfectly sized for each individual serving (perfect for me!)
• Supports my heart-healthy diet,
• and, most importantly, it tastes great!

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Smoky Lemon Roasted Salmon with Lemon Tahini Yogurt Sauce

• Prep Time: 5 minutes
• Cook Time: 10 minutes
• Total Time: 15 minutes
• Yield: 2 - 4 servings 1x

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Ingredients

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• 1 4-oz. slab of salmon, per person
• Smoked salt, smoked paprika, dill, Old Bay Seasoning, dill, granulated garlic, onion powder, Italian seasoning, fresh ground pepper
• Juice of 1/2 a lemon, per person

For the Lemon Tahini Yogurt Sauce:

• Zest & juice of 1/2 a lemon
• 1 – 2 garlic cloves, peeled & chopped fine
• 1/3 cup plain yogurt
• 1 Tablespoon tahini
• 1 Tablespoon light mayo
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon sugar
• A pinch of dill
• 2 – 3 Tablespoons milk

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Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Sprinkle both sides of salmon with the seasonings listed, then squeeze the lemon juice over the salmon.
2. Bake salmon at 350 F. for about 7 – 10 minutes or until the fish just flakes with a fork. Watch it carefully at the end so you catch it at just the right moment when it flakes but is still moist and tender.
3. While the salmon is cooking, whisk together the sauce ingredients.
4. Serve the salmon with hot basmati rice and/or on a bed of fresh baby spinach with fresh sweet tomatoes, vidalia onions and crumbled feta. Drizzle the sauce over and enjoy!

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Notes

Cooking time will vary depending on your oven and the thickness of the salmon. Watch it carefully! You’ll know when it is done if you poke it with a fork in the middle and it flakes, rather than holding together.

You’ll have enough sauce for 2 – 4 servings.

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