**Maple Salmon** This simple, tasty salmon dish is sweet, salty and buttery—all at once

This is a simple yet delicious recipe that can be prepared at home, at the

cottage or even on a secluded island. Crisp and caramelized, it’s sweet, salty

and buttery. Now that’s my kind of shore lunch!

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Ingredients

• ½ tsp kosher salt
• Fresh ground black pepper to taste
• 1/3 cup maple syrup
• 1/3 cup soy sauce
• 4 - 5-oz salmon fillets
• 1 cup dried yellow lentils
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 1 tbsp butter
• 1 tbsp canola oil
• 8 cipollini onions (or pearl onions), peeled
• 2 tbsp cold butter
• ½ cucumber, small dice
• 1 orange, cut into sections
• 2 radishes, thinly sliced
• 1 tbsp chopped parsley

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Instructions

• Mix salt, pepper, maple syrup and soya sauce in a sealable bag, then add salmon.

  Carefully distribute marinade around salmon, then let sit for 1 hour.

• Meanwhile, place lentils in pot of salted water and bring to a boil; cook until

  tender, then strain and rinse. Return lentils to pot and season with salt and pepper.

  Add butter, stir and keep warm.

• Remove salmon from bag (reserve marinade for later) and place on paper

  towels to absorb excess moisture. Heat a heavy-bottomed frying pan over

  medium-high heat, then add canola oil and sauté cipollini onions for 1 minute,

  turning occasionally.

• In the same pan, add salmon fillets and sear each side for one minute.

  Reduce heat to medium, add reserved marinade and cold butter, and cook

  salmon for another 3 minutes; occasionally baste with marinade.

• Spoon salmon and marinade onto plate, and top with cucumber, orange,

  radish and parsley.

• Serve with the warm lentils.

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bon appetit