Cedar Roasted Salmon

Ingredients

• 2 Cedar Sheets
• 1 Butcher’s Twine
• 2 Salmon Fillets
• 2 Garlic Cloves
• 1 Lemon
• ¾ oz Pistachios
• 1 Golden Beet
• 1 Red Delicious Apple
• 5 oz Matchstick Carrots
• 2 oz Baby Arugula
• Olive Oil
• Salt Pepper
• While salmon cooks, mince garlic. Zest lemon, halve,
• and juice. Coarsely chop pistachios. Peel beet, halve,

Instructions

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   Cook Within: Cedar sheets may char slightly during cooking. This is ideal, as it allows more cedar flavor to infuse Indigenous peoples in the Pacific Northwest utilized this technique of hanging salmon affixed to cedar planks over open fires. Cedar naturally infused into fish while smoke from the fire helped preserve it.

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   Prepare the Cedar Sheets: Place cedar sheets in a shallow bowl or pan. Add enough water to cover and soak 10 minutes. Cut twine into four equal pieces. Rinse salmon, pat dry, and sea- son both sides with ½ tsp. salt and ¼ tsp. pepper.

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   Prepare the Remaining Ingredients: While salmon cooks, mince garlic. Zest lemon, halve, and juice. Coarsely chop pistachios. Peel beet, halve, slice as thinly as possible, and cut slices into match- sticks. Core apple, halve, slice as thinly as possible, and cut slices into matchsticks.

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   Sear the Salmon: heat. Add 1 tsp. olive oil and salmon to hot pan. Sear salmon 1-2 minutes, or until lightly browned on one side. Lay two parallel pieces of twine 3” apart on one on top of twine, remove salmon from pan, and place, seared side up, in the middle of cedar sheet. Enclose cedar snugly around salmon and secure with twine. Repeat with second piece of salmon.

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   Prepare the Root Vegetable Slaw: Combine 2 ½ Tbsp. lemon juice, 1 ½ Tbsp. olive oil, ½ tsp. salt, garlic, ½ tsp. lemon zest, and ¼ tsp. pep- and arugula with dressing. Taste and season with salt and pepper if necessary.

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   Roast the Salmon: Place salmon in oven and roast 8-10 minutes, or until salmon reaches a minimum internal temperature of 145 degrees. Remove from oven, rest 3 minutes, cut twine, and remove from cedar paper.

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   Plate the Dish: Place salad on a plate. Serve salmon on top and garnish with pistachios. recipe–it has bigger grains and is easier to pinch than table salt, allowing more control over flavor. If using regular table salt, reduce measured amounts • The cedar sheets may break. No worries! Just soak in water, piece together around salmon, and secure with twine. • For an even finer slice than matchsticks, shred beets using the recipe before you start–we promise it will be time