Recipe:

Black Pepper-Crusted Salmon with Littleneck Clams and Chorizo

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Serves 4

Secret Ingredient: Old Bay Seasoning

Chef and award winning cookbook author Chris Schlesinger from the East Coast Grill in Cambridge, Massachusetts, loves the combination of sausage and seafood in this flavor-packed dish. To learn how to make this recipe, watch the Secret Ingredient cooking show.

Ingredients

Clams and Sausage
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 medium red onion, finely diced (about 2/3 cup)
2 tablespoons chopped garlic (about 3 cloves)
1/4 cup seeded and chopped tomatoes (about 1 Roma tomato)
1 tablespoon Old Bay seasoning
8 ounces chorizo or kielbasa, diced
16 littleneck clams
1 cup white wine
Sea salt and ground pepper to taste
3 tablespoons butter
Juice of 1 lemon (about 2 to 3 tablespoons)
1/3 cup chopped fresh parsley, more for garnish

Salmon
1/4 cup canola oil, plus 1 tablespoon
4 (4-ounce) salmon fillets
Salt to taste
1/4 cup freshly cracked black pepper

Method

Heat olive oil in a large sauté pan over medium-high heat. Add onion and cook until translucent, 7 to 9 minutes. Add garlic, tomato and Old Bay seasoning. Cook 1 minute, stirring occasionally, until spices smell toasty. Add chorizo and littleneck clams. Add wine, cover and simmer until clams open, 3 to 5 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste. Turn off heat, stir in butter. Add lemon juice and parsley.

While onions cook, heat 1/4-cup oil in another sauté pan over medium heat. Rub salmon with one tablespoon oil and season with salt. Press a generous amount of pepper on one side of the fillets. Sear fish, pepper side down for 5 minutes, turn fillets over and sear an additional 3 to 5 minutes, until the fish is cooked through. Set aside and cover with foil to keep warm.

To serve, spoon clams and kielbasa over salmon and garnish with additional parsley.

Nutrition

Per serving (about 14oz/394g-wt.): 750 calories (480 from fat), 54g total fat, 14g saturated fat, 140mg cholesterol, 1250mg sodium, 15g total carbohydrate (3g dietary fiber, 2g sugar), 41g protein

Tags: Entertaining, Wheat Free, Gluten Free, Sugar Conscious

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