How to Make Delicious Pan-Roasted Salmon with Tomato Relish

Pan-Roasted Salmon with Tomato Relish. Grape tomatoes sautéed with capers, shallot and cumin form a bright, chunky sauce for seared salmon. To make it, Ted Allen, TV personality and host of Food Network's Chopped, sautéed sweet grape tomatoes with capers, shallot, and cumin, then spooned the bright, chunky sauce over crisp. It sounds basic, but the tomato sauce is so awesome.

Brush the salmon on both sides with the glaze. Place in the pan and cook until lightly golden brown. Fresh, wild-caught salmon is a staple of the paleo diet, but cooking it can be intimidating for even the most seasoned home cook. You can cook Pan-Roasted Salmon with Tomato Relish using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Pan-Roasted Salmon with Tomato Relish

1. You need 2 of filets of salmon (about 6-8 oz. each).
2. You need 2 cups of cherry tomatoes.
3. You need 1 of shallot (about 1/4 cup finely sliced).
4. You need 2 tbsp of fresh parsley.
5. You need 1 tbsp of balsamic vinegar (can substitute red wine vinegar).
6. Prepare 3 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil.
7. You need 2 tbsp of vegetable oil.
8. It's of kosher salt.
9. You need of black pepper.

Oven roasting is a great hands-off approach, but often the price is an overcooked interior. While the salmon is cooking - a simple, fresh relish of chopped tomatoes, olives, lemon zest, lemon juice and parsley is stirred together. Once the salmon is done - simply serve it with a generous spoonful of the tomato-olive relish on top and a squeeze of lemon! This was so delicious, I ate it by the spoonful!

Pan-Roasted Salmon with Tomato Relish step by step

1. Start to prepare the relish by slicing the cherry tomatoes into quarters, dicing the shallot, and chopping the parsley. Add to these ingredients the balsamic vinegar and extra virgin olive oil, and season to taste with kosher salt and black pepper. Cook this mixture on medium heat until it has a pasty consistency. Set aside..
2. Prep the salmon by drying it thoroughly with paper towels. Once dry, season both sides with kosher salt and pepper..
3. Heat 2 tbsp of vegetable oil in a 12" stainless steel skillet on medium-high heat until the oil shimmers. Once hot, add the salmon filets skin side down. Immediately turn down the heat to medium-low. Hold the filets flat with a metal fish spatula for the first minute of cooking to prevent them from warping. After this, allow them to cook for another 5 minutes..
4. Flip the fish and cook on the other side until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part registers 120 F (anywhere from 1-5 minutes, depending on the thickness of the filet). If the skin is stuck to the pan when you try to flip the filet, continue cooking it on the first side until it releases easily..
5. Once finished, allow the fish to rest on a paper-towel-lined plate for another 5 minutes before serving. When ready to serve, add the relish. Serve with a side (pilaf rice in photo)..

At the time, I didn't have any steak, so I marinated some chicken breasts in a roasted garlic-herb vinagrette dressing and served with this relish. Tomato-Almond Relish Tip: If you have unripe tomatoes, run each one under hot water and to rapidly ripen. Season the salmon with salt and pepper and add it to the skillet, skin side up. Return pan used to cook salmon to medium-high heat. Once melted, continue cooking until butter begins to smell nutty Plate dish as pictured on front of card, topping salmon with tomato relish and garnishing rice with remaining parsley.