Cajun-style salmon with pickled cucumber salad

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music to my ears if you tend to shy away

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from buying Seafood because you're not

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confident in cooking it don't fear I'm

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going to give you some tips to show you

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how to cook salmon perfect two ways both

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pan fried and oven roasted and always

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with wonderful crispy skin whether it's

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salmon or maybe you like white fish like

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this beautiful baramundi cook it with a

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skin on follow this same technique and I

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guarantee you it will come out wonderful

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every single time now if you open your

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salmon and it's it's really moist just

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grab yourself a little bit of paper

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towel and just dab it like this dry skin

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is really important just grab a sharp

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knife pinch it together make a small

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incision straight through that skin you

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don't need to cut too deep into the

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salmon you're just opening it up that's

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going to allow the skin to get even

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crisper then you season it nothing new

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so far but I do have a trick coming up

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so get ready season the other side now I

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know what you're thinking preheat your

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pan right get a nice hot pan no if this

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was the pan and it was red hot and you

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put your salmon in guess what happens it

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goes like

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this and then you're left with this big

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pocket of skin that doesn't get crisp

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what we're doing is starting it in a

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cold pan we're going to bring that heat

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up quickly but that Salmon's going to

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relax into the pan which means that skin

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is going to have full contact and it's

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going to get super crispy a good

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non-stick pan is super helpful tiny bit

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of oil and then you pick up the salmon

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move it around spreading that little bit

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of oil in the bottom of the pan take it

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over to your stove stick it on high and

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it'll take about 2 minutes before you

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hear it Sizzle in and then 5 minutes

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before you've got that skin perfectly

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crisp you can literally hear it start to

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sizzle notice how much fat there is in

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the pan right now and then have a look

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back in a few minutes and you'll see

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quite a bit of that fat will render out

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of the salmon as it Cooks I know the

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Temptation right you hear that you're

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wondering what's happening underneath

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and you think do I get my Turner do I

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have a little Peak just be confident

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once it starts sizzling you've probably

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got a good 3 minutes before it's get

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into that deep golden brown so the less

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you mess with it the better now you can

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see some of that fat rendering out of

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the salmon wonderful it's been about 5

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minutes total since it's been in the pan

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that is exactly what you're looking

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for now if you're going to oven roast

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the salmon you just remove it from the

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pan stick it onto a little tray like

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this and then it goes back in the oven

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for about 3 minutes that's all it needs

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and it'll be cooked all the way through

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and you'll keep that perfect crispy skin

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you remove the pan from the heat you go

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ahead and dress whatever it is that you

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want to serve with it some salad some

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veggies you serve it with a little wedge

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of lemon or two crispy skin perfectly

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cooked salmon it doesn't get any better

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but my mouth watering so I'm sorry I'm

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just going to have to reach for a fork

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Coles brand salmon of course responsibly

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sourced absolutely

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delicious now you can find the link to

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the recipe that we use today in the

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caption below and while you're there

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