Salmon Meuniere


Ah yes, a classic French sauce and fish-cooking style served up with salmon. Something that Genli and the Rito kids really like, or so I'm told! I definitely had already made the dish before it was requested, which lead to some in-game awkwardness. Ah well. In this recipe, you'll see that the in-game recipe isn't a heck of a lot different than the real-world one (and in fact you could make it with just the in-game ingredients, if you wanted!).


(Hearty) Salmon Meuniere

Ingredients (in game):

  • Tabantha Wheat
  • Goat Butter
  • Hearty Salmon

Ingredients (real life):

  • Flour
  • Butter, or mix of butter and oil (i.e. 40g butter plus 2 Tbsp sunflower oil)
  • Salt
  • Parsley, flat-leaved and finely chopped (we used dill - my partner is nuts for it!)
  • Lemon zest and juice (from half a lemon)
  • Salmon filet or steak
Method:
After rinsing and patting your salmon filet dry, coat it with flour (put about 3 Tbsp of flour onto plate, lay salmon on top of it, flip to coat).


Next, fry it in a shallow layer of melted butter on medium heat, about 3 minutes on each side.


Sprinkle salt over the first side (cooked) after flipping it.


Once cooked on both sides, transfer to a pre-warmed plate while you make the sauce (or stick it into a 50 degree oven to keep it warm). Increase the heat on the pan with the butter and oil until it hisses, then remove the frying pan from the heat and stir in (CAREFULLY!) the lemon juice (which will spit hot oil on you if you don't let it cool enough! Be careful!). Let it cook for a few seconds, and scrape up any stuck-on goodness from the bottom of the pan into the sauce (just be sure not to burn the butter.. which I think I did, judging by the colour of my sauce! Eek. Still tasted mighty fine, though!).


Then pour this finished sauce over the cooked salmon, sprinkle with a garnish of parsley (we used dill!) and lemon zest.


I served mine with rice and a quick fennel salad (sliced fennel, very thinly sliced other-half-of-that-lemon, dill and a tiny bit of olive oil) on the side.


It was hearty. ;)

(It was really delicious! If I hadn't burned the butter, would it have been even better?! We'll definitely try this again, with whatever fish is on sale! But you have to love salmon! Please be sure to buy reliably sourced fish, i.e. with an MSC designation. I'm pretty sure those products taste better, too!). :)

My overall score: definitely 9/10. It was really good! And I will make it again, and bet sure not to overly brown (burn?!) that butter!

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