Baked Salmon with Apricot Glaze

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Prep time: About 20 minutes
Cooking time: About 40 minutes

Makes: 4 servings

    

Ingredients

• 1 lb.       center-cut skinless salmon fillets
• 12 oz.     apricot nectar
• 1/3 cup   chopped dried apricots
• 2 T.         honey
• 2 T.         low-salt soy sauce
• 2 t.         minced garlic
• 1/8 t.      Cajun red pepper seasoning
• 1/4 t.      ground cinnamon
• 1/4 t.      dried ginger

    

Directions -

1. Mix all ingredients except salmon in a sauce pan.
2. Simmer uncovered 20 minutes, stirring occasionally until volume of this glaze is reduced by half.
3. Meanwhile, cut salmon into 4 pieces and debone with a needle-nose pliers.
4. Make a shallow pan with aluminum foil and put salmon on it.
5. Spoon glaze on top of salmon and let sit 5 minutes.
6. Bake salmon 10 minutes in preheated 450 deg. F oven. If salmon is less than 1 1/2 inches think, reduce time accordingly.
7. Spoon on more glaze and broil salmon 3 - 5 minutes to carmelize glaze. Don't let it burn.
8. Good served with rice and steamed baby vegetables.

Based on a recipe learned in a cooking class on a Holland-America Alaskan cruise, June 2012.

 

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