Wrap Your Salmon In This Thin, Cured Meat For An Elevated Weeknight Dinner - Tasting Table

"Filled with essential vitamins, nutrients, and great taste, salmon is a wonderful and nourishing choice for your next meal. There are plenty of baked salmon recipes for easy weeknight dinners that are sure to satisfy. But if you really want to dress up your fish dish, wrap your salmon with a portion of prosciutto for an extra savory treat. This ingredient addition works so well as the flavors of the cured meat and fish complement one another."

"Much like wrapping tuna steaks with bacon, wrapping prosciutto around salmon gives it more of a lox-like feel with the added element of a unique, chewy, and fatty texture to contrast the typically flaky fish. You can make this meal upgrade as simple or complex as you want to depending on your preferences. Knowing the different types of prosciutto as well as the varieties of salmon available, this will allow for several different combinations of the two."

"Determine how much of your fish you'd like to be wrapped in the prosciutto and choose enough of the cured meat to accommodate. You can wrap the filets around the middle, all over, or any way you please. If possible, it's a good idea to select a package of pre-sliced prosciutto to ensure each piece is evenly portioned for your fish. For full coverage, try overlapping your prosciutto pieces before rolling your salmon in the meat and then cooking it to your liking."

Salmon provides essential vitamins, nutrients, and rich flavor, making it a nutritious meal choice. Wrapping salmon in prosciutto introduces savory, chewy, and fatty elements that contrast the fish’s flakiness and can evoke a lox-like profile. Different salmon varieties pair differently: sockeye is firmer and fishier, while Atlantic and coho are milder and more tender. Prosciutto can cover only part of a filet or the entire piece, and overlapping pre-sliced slices ensures even coverage. The technique adapts to baking, pan-searing, grilling, and other methods, allowing simple or elaborate preparations and varied prosciutto-salmon combinations.

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