Gluten-Free Dinner Made Easy With This Simple Salmon Recipe

By GFF Magazine

Updated on 5/15/2015 at 5:55 PM

For a fresh twist on a salmon dinner, try GFF Magazine's smoky cedar-plank salmon with an apricot glaze, roasted peaches, and green beans.

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The beauty of cooking salmon on cedar planks (available at most high-end grocers) is that it's amazingly easy, the wood imparts subtle smoky flavor, and it looks downright gourmet. To do it right, you'll need two cedar planks, soaked in advance, so plan accordingly.

Cedar Plank-Roasted Salmon With Apricot Glaze, Roasted Stone Fruit, and Green Beans


Yield4 servings

From GFF Magazine

INGREDIENTS

    • 5 fresh apricots, plums, or pluots, or 2 fresh peaches or other stone fruit, halved and pitted
    • 3 tablespoons gluten-free brown rice miso
    • 1 tablespoon GF Dijon mustard
    • 
1⁄2 cup apricot preserves
 (1-inch) piece of ginger, peeled and coarsely chopped
    • 
1 clove garlic, peeled
    • 
Zest and juice of 1 mandarin orange or satsuma tangerine

    • Juice of 1 lemon

    • 1⁄4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
    • 1 pound fresh green beans, trimmed and halved lengthwise on a diagonal
    • 2 tablespoons olive oil

    • 4 (8-ounce) salmon steaks or 6-ounce salmon fillets

    • 1⁄4 cup fresh mint leaves, for garnish

    INSTRUCTIONS

    1. Soak 2 cedar planks in water for 4 hours or overnight in a half-sheet pan or other rimmed roasting pan.

    2. Preheat oven to 500°F. In a blender or food processor, combine 2 apricot halves (or 1 peach half), the miso, mustard, apricot preserves, ginger, garlic, orange zest and juice, lemon juice, and red pepper flakes and blend until smooth.

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