Crispy Skinned Salmon (in the oven)

Please Google...please show me a way to make crispy skinned Salmon in the oven.

You see, living in the city we have a problem...hard wired smoke alarms. It seems like a great idea. One smoke alarm in your house detects smoke and the entire house begins to scream. Unless you don't have a vent fan for your stove top that vents outside, like me. Every time we try and cook anything in a pan on the stove top that creates steam at all (pancakes, steak, bacon etc...) the alarms go off. Crispy Skinned Salmon is a recipe for ear-splitting reaction. We have learned how to create delicious bacon in the oven, steaks we reserve for the grill, pancakes we are still working on, but I really needed to figure out the salmon.

And we did!

We found a way to create awesome crispy skinned salmon without setting off our fire alarm. It is a cause for celebration. I read several suggested methods for creating a crispy skinned salmon, but all of them involved the stove top at some point. We developed this method that uses only the oven. Enjoy, and your are welcome for saving your ears.

Cripsy Skinned Salmon (in the oven)

Ingredients:

2 salmon fillets
salt & pepper to taste
Olive oil

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Place a cast iron frying pan in the oven while the oven preheats.

2. Pat the fillets dry. Rub the fish all over with olive oil, then season with salt and pepper.

3. When the oven has come to temperature, drizzle the hot frying pan with 1 tablespoon of olive oil, and place the fish fillets into the pan, skin side down. Two things are important here: 1. the frying pan must be VERY hot. Make sure the oven has come to temperature. 2. Work quickly. You don't want to loose any of that heat.

4. Bake the salmon for 8 - 10 or until the fish is opaque. (This varies depending on the thickness of your cut of salmon, so watch your fish.) Squeeze with lemon, or dress with your favorite sauce and enjoy.