Salmon Salads
Spinach and Smoked Salmon Salad with Lemon-Dill Dressing
This refreshingly crunchy salad makes for an excellent spring lunch or super quick dinner.
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Poached Salmon Salad with Lettuce and Asparagus
The Good News The simple poaching-in-a-bag technique used to cook this omega-3-rich salmon eliminates the need for extra oil or butter. "The fish becomes buttery and just flakes away," chef Erik Oberholtzer says. "It's the juiciest salmon you'll ever have."
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Poached-Salmon Salad
Poaching salmon in wine gives it a lovely flavor; using the poaching liquid to make a vinaigrette is a delicious way to dress the salad.
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Grilled Salmon Salad with Miso Vinaigrette
This classic grilled salmon salad takes only 20 minutes to prepare.
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Salt-Baked Salmon Salad
From Lance Dean Velasquez, a 1996 Best New Chef, now at Johnfrank's in San Francisco.
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Pan-Roasted Salmon-and-Bread Salad
This is a terrific all-in-one meal and an inventive use for salmon: Grace Parisi nestles the fillets in crunchy hunks of ciabatta bread tossed with tomatoes, capers and superthin slices of lemon, then bakes the dish until the salmon is just cooked.