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Cajun Salmon with Creamy Parmesan Sauce is wonderfully spiced and covered successful a affluent sauce. Usually I similar salmon cooked lighter but sometimes a affluent creamy condiment conscionable can’t beryllium beat.
How To Serve Cajun Salmon with Creamy Parmesan Sauce
This is simply a truly affluent dish. It tin beryllium served implicit pasta oregon mashed potatoes for an adjacent heavier repast oregon with steamed vegetables and a crockery with Creamy Italian Dressing to lighten it up some. Sauteed spinach is besides a large side.
Type Of Seasoning To Use
You tin usage store-bought Cajun seasoning oregon a homemade cajun seasoning. Creole seasoning is precise akin and tin beryllium utilized instead. I emotion utilizing Tony Chachere’s Creole Seasoning.
Change The Spice Level
To marque this crockery little spicy, trim oregon permission retired the crushed reddish capsicum flakes. For further heat, service with blistery sauce.
Add More Flavor
For other flavor, you tin easy adhd sliced sun-dried tomatoes, caller babe spinach, oregon sauteed mushrooms to the sauce. A small crabmeat oregon immoderate cooked babe shrimp would beryllium a precise decadent addition.
Thicken The Sauce
I similar a ace heavy condiment truthful I adhd a cornstarch slurry astatine the end. Just premix 1 to 2 teaspoons of cornstarch with an adjacent portion of acold h2o and disturbance into the sauce. Let simmer for a infinitesimal oregon 2 to thicken.
Recipe Tips
For adjacent cooking, fto the salmon beryllium astatine country somesthesia for 20 minutes earlier cooking. If you don’t person clip to bash this, nary worries.
Pat salmon adust with insubstantial towels to get a bully sear connected it.
Remove the salmon from the cookware erstwhile it is somewhat undercooked. It volition navigator a small much arsenic it sits from residual vigor and inactive a small much erstwhile you instrumentality it to the sauce.
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Cajun Salmon with Creamy Parmesan Sauce
Ingredients
- 4 salmon fillets
- 2 teaspoons cajun oregon creole seasoning
- 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1/2 cup finely diced onion
- 1/2 cup finely diced reddish doorbell pepper
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 3/4 cup chicken broth
- 3/4 cup heavy cream
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed reddish capsicum flakes
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon Cajun oregon creole seasoning
- 1 to 2 teaspoons cornstarch, optional
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
- 2 green onions, sliced
- 1 tablespoon chopped caller parsley
Instructions
- Pat salmon adust with insubstantial towels and sprinkle with cajun seasoning and smoked paprika.
- Heat olive lipid successful a ample nonstick skillet implicit medium-high heat. Add salmon tegument broadside up and navigator for 3 to 4 minutes.Flip implicit and navigator for different 3 to 4 minutes oregon until desired grade of doneness.Remove salmon from skillet and acceptable aside.
- Add the food to the skillet. When melted, adhd bulb and doorbell capsicum and navigator for 4 minutes to soften.Add ail and navigator 1 minute.
- Add chickenhearted broth, dense cream, crushed reddish capsicum flakes, achromatic pepper, and Cajun seasoning.Bring substance to a simmer. Simer 3 to 5 minutes to thicken.Note: If you privation the condiment thicker, premix 1 to 2 teaspoons of cornstarch with an adjacent magnitude of acold h2o and adhd to sauce. Simmer 1 minute.
- Turn vigor to debased and disturbance successful citrus foodstuff and Parmesan cheese. Return salmon to skillet.Sprinkle with greenish bulb and parsley.
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