Salmon With Anchovy-Garlic Butter
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- 4 anchovy fillets, minced
- 1 fat garlic clove, minced (or 2 small ones)
- 1/2 teaspoon coarse kosher salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 4 (6- to 8-ounce) skin-on salmon fillets
- 2 tablespoons drained capers, patted dry
- 1/2 lemon
- Fresh chopped parsley, for serving
- Heat oven to 400 degrees.
- In a small bowl, mash together butter, anchovies, garlic, salt and pepper.
- In a large ovenproof skillet, melt about half the anchovy butter.
- Add fish, skin side down.
- Cook for 3 minutes over high heat to brown the skin, spooning some of the pan drippings over the top of the fish as it cooks.
- Add capers to bottom of pan and transfer to oven.
- Roast until fish is just cooked through, 8 to 10 minutes.
- Remove pan from oven and add remaining anchovy butter to pan to melt.
- Place salmon on plates and spoon buttery pan sauce over the top.
- Squeeze the lemon half over the salmon and garnish with chopped parsley.
- Serve.
unsalted butter, anchovy, garlic, coarse kosher salt, freshly ground black pepper, salmon, capers, lemon, parsley
Taken from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017329 (may not work)