Salmon with Mustard Dill Sauce

Ingredients
4 tablespoons Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons Country Dijon Mustard
Juice of 1 lemon
2 teaspoons olive oil plus more for salmon
2 tablespoons fresh dill, minced, or 2 teaspoons dried dill
2 cloves garlic, minced
4 (6 ounces each) salmon fillets
Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 400*F.  Line a baking sheet with foil and spray with cooking spray. 

2. Combine mustards, lemon juice, 2 teaspoons olive oil, dill and garlic in a small bowl. 

3. Place salmon on prepared baking sheet, skin-side down. Season with salt and pepper and drizzle about 1 teaspoon olive oil over each salmon piece.  Bake for 10 minutes.  Remove from oven, tent with foil, and let rest for 10 minutes before serving with sauce. 

Comments
This recipe is from Life’s Ambrosia.  Lance and I both found the fish to be a bit too dry, so that’s something I should work on in the future.  I seem to have trouble getting salmon perfectly cooked in the oven – it’s much easier in a skillet.  The solution here is for me to actually look up temperatures and use my handy-dandy thermometer until I get the timing right. 

The sauce, however, was fantastic.  It was very strong with garlic and mustard.  Not the sort of sauce you want to glop on top of the fish before testing first! 

Shown here with Mashed Potato and Turnip Cakes with Onions and Kale.

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