Salmon with Garlic Butter Sauce | SAM THE COOKING GUY

on today's episode we're making a garlic butter cream sauce and by the way this could go on anything really almost anything we will be putting it on a piece of fish yeah because that's all I want to do start right here to a small pan add a little oil and then a couple tablespoons of diced red onion you could use shallot if you want though I do find shallot a bit of a pain in the ass cuz they're small and garlic these two things we just want to sweat soften become fragrant should take about three four minutes well we're waiting for that let's use this as an opportunity to do something we'll get our fish ready little piece of salmon a little oil on both sides and both sides salt and pepper it's ready okay that is starting to smell really good important next step I'm using vermouth you could use white wine half a cup and it goes and just let it start to bubble away and let it reduce by a boats I don't know 30 percent all right two tablespoons of cold butter melt beautifully in here here we go and about a quarter of a cup of cream heavy cream let that bubble for a bit it's gonna do its thing a little and now we're gonna start our fish the pan is hot it's my way of testing I don't condone that behavior don't do that it's not smart never burp myself but it's not smart fish goes in face down the side you're gonna serve facing up is the side that goes into a pan first that's because it gets the cleanest cook the pan doesn't have bits stuck to it it's just nice and perfect a really nice thing about cooking salmon this way is that you're gonna be able to see the color change up the side to come back to our sauce the bubbling is going to reduce it a bit just gonna thicken a little bit we've got two other things to add and if you look right here see cooking cooking cooking looking beautiful we want to cook it about a third of the way then flip and do the other side and it'll help us keep the inside about a perfect medium-rare we're gonna add juice of one lemon juice of one lemon and a nice big tablespoon of chopped dill oh just let that continue along we're gonna seize it in a second here's our salmon ready to flip look at that beautiful here let's I've got cover that's it right there we'll do the same thing on that side be pretty garlic dill lemon juice butter no bad here no bad here at all okay so the fish is ready we'll just take it out and let it rest for a sec and now our sauce needs a couple things it needs salt and pepper and then we mix now we taste the heats enough now and we'll just taste Four Seasons would be wrong just to do this I shouldn't do that all right let's put this together our fish first I'll pretty is that and now some sauce and this is not meant to be thick sauce it's just meant to be a beautiful sauce and then just a tiny bit more depth there we go let's go right here this little end little sauce delicate little hint of garlic some lovely dill notes coming through red onion in there mmm wow this is good pardon all that nonsense it's just damn good and you see look can you see it's not you see the color hmm that's beautiful moist salmon that is not dry it is not overcooked little crisp that's the way to cook the salmon and by the way it was a room-temperature piece of salmon when I started I love Sam and I love cooking it like this I don't like it dry it out that little sauce is genius you could put on any kind of fish would be nice and a little little piece of chicken or something like that who knows possibilities are endless and certainly up to you hey eat better that's the point of this we want you eating better not going out all the time I'm not fast food okay go every so often that make more stuff thanks for hanging out tell your friends about us subscribe to whatever you can follow me on Instagram and all the other social media stuff to see [Music] you [Music]

Channel: SAM THE COOKING GUY

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Id: bSOd8r4wjec

Length: 6min 29sec (389 seconds)

Published: Wed May 03 2017