Slow-Roasted Brown Sugar and Dill Cured Salmon w/Dijon Sauce, suggested by Sarah

Slow-Roasted Brown Sugar and Dill Cured Salmon with Dijon Sauce

Slow roasting the cured fish gives the salmon a velvety, silken texture.

Yield: 8 servings (serving size: about 5 ounces salmon)

Ingredients

1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
1/3 cup chopped fresh dill
2 tablespoons kosher salt
1 (3-pound) salmon fillet
Cooking spray
1/2 cup reduced-fat mayonnaise
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard

Preparation

1. Combine first 3 ingredients in a bowl. Place fish, skin side down, in a 13 x 9–inch baking dish. Rub sugar mixture over fish. Cover and refrigerate 8 hours.

2. Preheat oven to 175°.

3. Wipe off remaining sugar mixture from fish with a paper towel. Coat a jelly-roll pan with cooking spray. Place fish, skin side down, in pan.

4. Bake at 175° for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until fish flakes easily when tested with a fork or until desired degree of doneness.

5. Combine mayonnaise and mustard; stir well. Serve mayonnaise mixture with fish.