Poached Salmon with Tomatoes Scallions and Capers

Poached Salmon with Tomatoes Scallions and Capers

Poached Salmon with Tomatoes Scallions and Capers is a dish that I have regularly served as part of the Christmas Eve Buffet.

To the Tomato, Scallions and Caper Dresing, I add fresh chopped parsley, a little bit of balsamic vinegar, olive oil, salt and pepper and that is it.

Served on a large tray, the Poached Salmon topped with traditional bright red and green add both an elegant and festive look to the holiday table.

Regarding holiday celebrations at my house, generally, the only food tradition that I annually observe, is that there is always a lot of it.

I like to vary menus, including providing dishes not frequently eaten or perhaps even some dishes unfamiliar to guests. Sometimes I am surprised at how well new foods are received, such as the first time I served ceviche years back, and it was completely gone in minutes.

However, the Poached Salmon topped with the Tomatoes, Scallions, and Capers Dressing has been an ongoing holiday buffet menu item solely by popular demand.

One year since I was making a Bouillabaisse, which included salmon as one of the fishes in the soup, I decided not to make the Poached Salmon dish. One might have thought I forgot the Turkey at Thanksgiving. Not even discreetly guests outright asked where it was and wanted it back on the Buffet Table!

Besides its annual display place on the Christmas Eve Buffet Table, the original Poached Salmon Dish has now evolved further to include the Team Family Tailgate, and we grill the salmon rather than serve it poached.

All of the team and families, including Coach, love this dish too, so it is now likely an annual mainstay for a special Tailgate. I have also made this dish with grilled Wild Alaskan Sockeye Salmon and the combination was equally good.

One little holiday tip if you serve the Poached Salmon with Tomatoes, Scallions, and Capers Dressing on your Holiday Buffet Table, you may likely be encouraged to present it again and again for many holiday seasons to come.

Poached Salmon with Tomatoes Scallions and Capers

November 19, 2012

by Peggy Gilbey McMackin

Category Fish Holiday Favorites

Persons

8

Prep Time

15 minutes

Cook Time

35 minutes

Total Time

50 minutes

Ingredients

• For the Poached Salmon:
• 1 salmon filet side, 2-3 pounds
• bottled or filtered water, enough to barely cover the salmon filet in a glass cooking dish
• 1 cup white wine
• 1 medium sized onion, peeled, halved, sliced
• 10 whole peppercorns
• 6 small bay leaves
• For the Tomato, Scallion and Caper Dressing:
• 8 medium tomatoes, chopped
• 5 scallions, chopped, including the green tops
• 2-3 Tablespoons capers, drained and chopped
• 1 1/2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar
• 2 Tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt, more or less according to taste
• 1/2 teaspoon fresh cracked pepper
• 1/2 cup fresh chopped parsley

Instructions

1. For the Poached Salmon:
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
3. Set salmon in a long rectangular glass dish adding enough water to barely cover
4. Pour in 1 cup of white wine
5. Line the top of the salmon with onion slices then sprinkle the peppercorns and bay leaves across leaving a bay leaf and a few peppercorns in the water and wine mixture
6. Cover tightly with aluminum foil and cook salmon around thirty-five minutes, if filet is very thick check for doneness, for smaller fillets reduce the cooking time
7. Remove poached salmon from the oven and let sit in the cooking liquid for five minutes
8. Use an extra large sized spatula to transfer to a serving platter then refrigerate immediately
9. To prepare the Tomato, Scallion and Caper Dressing, combine the tomatoes, scallions, and capers in a bowl, add in the balsamic vinegar, olive oil, salt and pepper, stir, adjust seasonings to taste, stir through the fresh chopped parsley
10. Just before serving, top Tomato Scallion, and Caper Dressing across the center of the poached salmon serving extra dressing on the side

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Poached Salmon,

Poached Salmon with Tomatoes,

Poached Salmon with Tomatoes Scallions and Capers,

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