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Pan-Seared Salmon with a Mint Pistachio Cream Sauce

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Do you want me to beg?

Ingredients

  • 2 Tablespoons Butter
  • 2 whole Fresh Salmon Fillets (single Serving Size Fillets)
  • 1 pinch Coarse Salt And Freshly Ground Pepper
  • 1 Tablespoon All-purpose Flour
  • 1 cup Heavy Cream
  • 2 Tablespoons Fresh Lemon Juice
  • 2 teaspoons Freshly Chopped Mint (or More!)
  • ¼ cups (or More) Chopped Pistachios

Preparation

Heat the butter in a large skillet over medium high. Season both sides of the salmon with salt and pepper and sear it in the pan for 3 minutes on one side. Flip and sear 2 more minutes on the other side. Remove salmon from skillet and cover to keep warm.

Back in the skillet, add the flour to the melted butter that remains in the pan and whisk until smooth, about a minute. Add the cream and lemon juice. Continue to whisk as it thickens, maybe 3 more minutes if that. Add the chopped mint and a pinch of salt and pepper to the sauce. Taste it. Yum!

Serve salmon with a good and I mean good drizzle of the cream sauce. Sprinkle the chopped pistachios over the the dish and serve with a steamed veggie, like snow peas.

You don’t EVEN know.

* The sauce makes enough for 4 salmon fillets. So you could either sear up more fish, or cut the sauce in half if it’s just the two of you. Or keep the sauce as is and stick a straw in it. We clearly know the right answer here.

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'shoe Chef on 11.8.2012

This was so good! I found the salmon needed a little longer cooking time than specified but the sauce was fantastic. Will be a weekend go-to for sure.

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