Salmon Dinner Ideas: Salmon with Apples and Thyme
perfectly cooked salmon topped with apples and thyme
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 45 minutes
- Total Time: 55 minutes
- Yield: 1 1x
- Category: Main Dish
- Method: Stove Top/Roasting
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 6 oz salmon fillet
- 2 TBS flour mixed with 1 tsp salt
- 1 apple
- 1/4 cup diced onion
- 1 cup apple cider
- 1 TBS maple syrup
- 1 tsp dried thyme or 1 TBS fresh thyme
- 1 tsp butter
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400
- Cut apple into small dice
- Mince onion
- Heat about 1 tsp of olive oil in a medium saute pan. Add the onion and cook until soft. Add the apple and cook for about 3 minutes until the apple starts to soften. Remove from pan and set aside in a bowl.
- Return the pan to the heat and add the apple cider and maple syrup and bring to a boil.
- Reduce the cider mixture by 2/3rds. Taste and season with salt and pepper and stir in the thyme. Turn off the heat and add the butter if using. Let it melt into the sauce.
- Stir in the apples and onions and set aside.
- Heat a small fry pan over medium high heat.
- Add the flour and 1 tsp salt to a small plate and mix together.
- Dredge the salmon fillet in the flour mixture.
- Place the fillet skin side up in the pan and pan fry for three minutes. Turn and cook for three minutes. Remove the pan the oven to finish cooking – 15 to 20 minutes depending on the thickness of your fillet
- While the fish is cooking warm up the apples.
- To plate: place the fish on top of cooked rice and add the sauce. Sprinkle with chopped parsley if desired.
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