Quick & Easy Tomato-lemon Oven-poached Salmon Or Trout

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 2 lbs salmon fillets (or trout)
• 1/2 cup canned tomato sauce
• 1/4-1/2 lemon (dependent upon size or yield)
• 1/4 cup fresh parsley (coarsely chopped)
• 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil (evoo)

Recipe

• 1 select a clear, rectangular pyrex baking pan that is slightly larger (50% or less) than the fish.
• 2 sprinkle 1/2 evoo on bottom of pyrex.
• 3 wash fish & pat dry with paper towel.
• 4 place fish, skin side down, in the baking dish.
• 5 completely cover fish with tomato sauce, parsley, lemon, and remaining evoo.
• 6 seal tightly with aluminum foil & place in 350°f oven for 20-30 minutes.
• 7 check: open oven & observe, without opening (by looking at the outer side of the clear dish), that the sauce is liquid (watery) and boiling.
• 8 that's it!
• 9 note: if fish is thick, and more time required, add water as needed, re-sealing aluminum tightly.
• 10 keep covered until service. be sure to ladle extra sauce over fish (mmm!).