How To Cook Salmon

In this post today we are going to show you how to cook salmon.
Wild salmon is a fish which is rich with a natural
source of omega-3 fatty acids which are absolutely
essential for our brain development and function.

The omega-3's found in wild salmon are also beneficial in:

* Aids in the prevention of heart disease
* High blood pressure
* Arthritis
* Depression

All in all, salmon has proteins, vitamins A, B, & D.
It also has a wide range of minerals which are vital to
a balanced and healthy diet.

If you have never cooked salmon before you might ask for
a center cut piece. Keep the skin on while you cook salmon.
This will help to keep the fish together and from fallilng
apart. It also makes it easier to rotate on the grill to
form your grill marks. If you have read my blogs, you
know I am a big fan of having grill marks. Here, I will give
you a great tip on dealing with how to cook salmon.

Have your grill preheated to medium hot and after you have
seasoned your salmon with a little salt and lemon pepper,
try brushing on a little olive oil to the grill where
you are going to place the salmon.

Then place your fish on the grill. About half way through
rotate the salmon a quarter turn. Not a full 360, or even
180. Just about a quarter. And as you practice this, over
time you will get really good at grill marks.

Then by learning where you first place the fish and in
what direction, after you make that first turn then flip
the fish over, you will see whether you have straight square
markings or the diamonds.

By practicing, you will get better and better at this until
your friends will swear you used to work in a restaurant.
It really is not all that hard. Just takes practice in
knowing how to put it on the grill and then how much
to turn it.

For fish you want to cook it about 5-6 minutes for each
half inch of thickness. And you want to keep the skin
on. Why the skin on?

Here is my secret to absolutely fantastic looking salmon,
like it just came out of the cooking magazines. After I
have seasoned my fish, oiled the grill, put it on the grill
and in about three minutes I have rotated it to cook another
three minutes, then I flip it over.

You start with the flesh side down first! Now I call that the
presentation side. That is where the great grill marks are.
You have a great looking piece of salmon. This is how to
cook salmon!

Now just cook it for another 5-7 minutes on the skin side
down now. You do not need to mark this. When the salmon starts
to get flaky and turn color (opaque), you know that it is done.
You can just lift it off the grill gently and place it on the
plate. Most times the skin will just stay on the grill. That
is alright, you do not need it.

Perfect looking fish, perfectly cooked!

If you follow the timing and mark the salmon correctly, even
if it is not quite cooked all the way through at first, you
are ok. Here is why. You can continue to cook just a little
longer with the skin side down. You are not going to need it.
It does not matter and will probably stay with the grill, but
you have absolutely great looking grill marks on the
presentation side.

With salmon and any other kind of fish you might grill, it is
all about that first (top) half…..which is what I call the
presentation side. You want that to be Perfect!

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