Blackened Friday!

Get it, girl…

Happy Black Friday Everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are currently safe out there in the world of competitive shopping.  I wanted to share a recipe with you all to make when you get home from raiding Target and kicking ass.  I decided to make something with a kick, a delicious Blackened Salmon!

I’ve never blackened anything before, so I looked up some how-to sites online and learned a few tips.  For this, you are going to need a heavy duty skillet.  Preferably a cast iron pan would work best.  If you don’t own a cast iron pan, just use the heaviest pan you have.

I found this recipe on allrecipes.com. For the blackening rub, you will need:

• 2 TBSP ground paprika
• 1 TBSP ground cayenne pepper
• 1 TBSP onion powder
• 2 TSP salt
• 1/2 TSP ground white pepper
• 1/2 TSP ground black pepper
• 1/4 TSP dried thyme
• 1/4 TSP dried basil
• 1/4 TSP dried oregano

*Spice alert! This rub may be a little spicy for some people.  For me, it was great.  If you don’t like it hot, you may need to kick down the cayenne a notch.*

This is enough rub for 4 Salmon filets.  You will also need 1/2 cup unsalted butter to brush your filets.  Here’s how ya do:

In a small bowl, mix paprika, cayenne pepper, onion powder, salt, white pepper, black pepper, thyme, basil and oregano. Make sure you spices are mixed well together

Brush salmon fillets on both sides with 1/4 cup butter, and sprinkle evenly with the cayenne pepper mixture. Drizzle one side of each fillet with 1/2 remaining butter.

In a large, heavy skillet over high heat, cook salmon, butter side down, until blackened, 2 to 5 minutes. This probably will smoke so be sure to open a window and/or rip the batteries out of your smoke detectors before cooking.


Turn fillets, drizzle with remaining butter, and continue cooking until blackened and fish is easily flaked with a fork.  I cooked mine about 3 minutes on each side, which produced a nice medium temp on my salmon.


 I also made some brown rice and oven roasted broccoli and cauliflower to go with my salmon.  The broccoli and cauliflower I tossed with vegetable oil, tamari, ginger, pepper, and cayenne, and then roasted for 15-20 minutes at 350 degrees.


Your finished product is a delicious meal chocked full of omega 3 and vitamins that will replenish you after a day of shopping till you drop.  It’s a pretty easy dish too.  Just be careful flipping your filets.  All of the hot butter tends to want to splatter…

Maybe I should wear sleeves while cooking…

Let me know what you think. Enjoy!


Glutardedly Yours,


~Tim

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