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Crispy Salmon Sunday Dinner
A beginner-friendly Sunday dinner with crispy-skin salmon, miso-butter cabbage, burrata with jammy tomatoes, and grapefruit yogurt cake.
Serves 2 | Time ~3 hrs 15 min | Oven 350°F / 425°F
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A beginner-friendly Sunday dinner with crispy-skin salmon, lemony herb sauce, miso-butter cabbage, burrata with jammy tomatoes, and grapefruit yogurt cake. Written for 2 people and assumes nothing is made ahead.
Serves: 2 Total time: ~3 hrs 15 min (about 2 hrs active) Oven: 350°F for the cake, 425°F for the cabbage
Menu
Shopping list (for 2)
Seafood
- 2 skin-on salmon fillets, 5-6 oz each
Produce
- 1 small green cabbage
- 2 grapefruits
- 1-2 lemons
- 1 small bunch herbs for sauce: parsley, cilantro, dill, basil, or a mix
- 1 small bunch basil
- 1 pint cherry tomatoes
- 1 head garlic
- Optional: scallions
- Optional: extra berries or citrus for serving with cake
Dairy / Refrigerated
- Butter
- Plain Greek yogurt or sour cream
- Optional: heavy cream for whipped cream
Cheese
- 1 ball burrata, 4-8 oz
Bread
- Good bread, such as sourdough, baguette, or country loaf
Pantry
- White miso
- Olive oil
- Neutral oil, such as avocado, canola, or grapeseed
- Rice vinegar
- Honey
- Pine nuts
- Pistachios
- All-purpose flour
- Sugar
- Powdered sugar
- Baking powder
- Vanilla extract
- Kosher salt
- Black pepper
- Optional: balsamic vinegar or red wine vinegar
Timeline for a 7:30pm dinner
| Time | Step |
|---|---|
| 4:15-4:25 | Set oven to 350°F, set up tools, grease cake pan |
| 4:25-4:50 | Make grapefruit yogurt cake batter |
| 4:50 | Cake goes in; set timer for 30 min |
| 4:50-5:10 | Clean up and prep cabbage wedges on sheet pan |
| 5:10-5:20 | Make miso butter |
| 5:20 | Check cake, pull when done, cool 15 min; turn oven to 425°F |
| 5:20-5:35 | Reset; pull burrata and salmon sauce ingredients |
| 5:35 | Cabbage goes in; set timer for 15 min |
| 5:35-5:50 | Make lemony green herb sauce |
| 5:50 | Flip cabbage; return to oven for ~10 min |
| 5:50-6:05 | Toast pine nuts, prep tomatoes |
| 6:00-6:10 | Brush cabbage with miso butter, finish 3-5 min, set aside |
| 6:10-6:25 | Pan-toast bread |
| 6:25-6:40 | Make jammy tomatoes |
| 6:40-6:55 | Glaze and decorate cake (only if cool) |
| 6:55 | Take salmon out, pat dry, season |
| 7:00-7:10 | Assemble burrata platter |
| 7:10-7:13 | Heat salmon pan |
| 7:13-7:23 | Cook salmon, pull at 125-130°F |
| 7:23-7:30 | Final plating, serve at 7:30pm |
Notes
- Make the cake first; it needs time to bake and cool before glazing.
- If the cake is not cool enough to glaze, skip the glaze until after dinner or dust with powdered sugar.
- Cabbage is good warm or room temperature, so it can finish early.
- The burrata platter can sit at room temperature.
- Salmon should happen last: dry skin, hot pan, skin-side down first, and do not move it too much.
Source
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