Roasted Salmon With Wasabi Cream

blucoat's Note:

A simple Japanese recipe from the New York Times Magazine.

• Total Time: 40 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• olive oil
• 1 ¾ lbs salmon fillets (wild king recommended)
• sea salt
• 6 teaspoons wasabi powder
• 1 cup sour cream

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Sprinkle a large roasting pan with olive oil. Lay the salmon in the pan with the skin-side down. Rub a thin slick of oil over the salmon and season with salt. Roast until just cooked through, 20 to 30 minutes.
2. Meanwhile, dissolve wasabi powder in 8 teaspoons of water. Whisk into sour cream and season to taste with salt. Add more wasabi if desired. Serve with salmon.

Reviews

[Melanie D]

The sauce overwhelms the flavor of the salmon. If I were to make this again, I would cut the wasabi in half. It also made way more sauce than we needed.

[Renegade Chef]

The cooking directions are spot on--25 minutes produced a wonderfully juicy, evenly-cooked fish. The cream sauce was not quite right for our taste buds... we felt like it was missing something, but YMMV. Great cooking method for the fish, though.

[Canadian_in_the_Bay]

I used the wasabi sauce from this recipe to go with some tuna I made and it was amazing. Next time I will be making the whole recipe! Also, I used fat free sour cream to make it more diet friendly.