Baked Balsamic Salmon
Ingredients
- 1 whole salmon cleaned, scaled and patted dry
- 1 lemon thinly sliced
- 1 small red onion thinly sliced
- ½ of a small fennel bulb thinly sliced
- 3 Roma tomatoes cored and sliced
- 1 large garlic clove minced
- Milanese Gremolata Olive Oil
- Strawberry Dark Balsamic Vinegar
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Juice and zest of ½ lemon
- 2 tbsp minced parsley
- 2 slices of bacon cut in half crosswise (optional)
- Sauce
- 1 large can diced tomatoes
- 2 tbsp Milanese Gremolata Olive Oil
- Salt and pepper
- 2 tbsp minced onion
- 1 minced garlic clove
- ½ tsp sugar
- 1 tbsp Strawberry Dark Balsamic Vinegar (more to taste)
Instructions
- For the sauce: Heat the oil in a heavy bottomed sauce pan on medium and sauté the onion for one minute. Add the garlic and cook one minute more. Add the tomatoes and sugar, bring to a boil, cover partly and reduce heat to a simmer and cook for about a half hour until the sauce starts to thicken. Add the vinegar and season to taste. When cooled the sauce should hold its shape on a spoon.
- Set the oven to 400 degrees. Rub the cavity and both sides of the fish generously with the Milanese Gremolata Olive Oil and place the fish on oiled foil on a rimmed dish or pan large enough to hold the fish. If you are using the bacon cut 4 diagonal slashes on one side of the fish and insert the four pieces of bacon into the slits. Set the fish bacon side up on the foil. Toss the sliced lemon, sliced onion, fennel, tomato slices and garlic together in a bowl. Drizzle generously with the Milanese Gremolata Olive Oil and Strawberry Dark Balsamic Vinegar and season to taste with salt and pepper. Place the stuffing loosely into the cavity of the fish, mounding the extra around the fish and rolling the foil up to prevent juices from leaking out. Spread half the tomato sauce over the bacon side of the fish and bake about 30 minutes. Plate the fish and garnish with chopped parsley, lemon zest and drizzle the fish with the lemon juice. Serve with the remaining sauce.The stuffing is very tasty including the lemon slices.
