Chef critique
Coho Salmon with Apple-Sage Brown Butter
The recipe features elegant, complementary fall flavors and perfect seasoning, but a timing miscalculation will cause the salmon to finish cooking too early and get cold before the vegetables are done.
Score: 8/10
Suggested fixes
- Adjust step 6 to instruct the cook to add the salmon to the oven during the final 10-14 minutes of the vegetables' cooking time.
- Convert the bulleted list in step 4 into an inline prose sentence.
- Consider moving the preparation of the apple, garlic, and sage to the initial prep steps so the cook isn't rushed to chop and cook the sauce while monitoring the salmon.
Issues
- medium / timing: The instructions direct the cook to put the salmon in the oven immediately after adding the Brussels sprouts. Because the salmon takes 10-14 minutes and the sprouts need 18-22 minutes, the salmon will finish cooking 4-12 minutes before the vegetables and get cold while waiting.
- low / clarity: Step 4 formats a mixture of exactly three ingredients as a bulleted list, violating the guideline to only use bullets for mixtures of more than three ingredients.
Strengths
- Excellent flavor profile combining fall produce with brown butter and sage.
- Precise, correctly calibrated salt amounts according to the weight of the salmon and vegetables.
- Pull temperature for the salmon perfectly targets a moist, tender result.
- Smart use of a single pan for the vegetables, with staged additions to ensure even cooking.