Dinner · 20 min · Amounts not specified
Salmon taco with slaw
Flake the salmon. Dress the cabbage hard.
The sheet · 2 plates · 20 min
easyWhy tonight. Flake the salmon. Dress the cabbage hard.
What it needs
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- salmon
- tortillas
- cabbage
- lime
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: yogurt, cilantro.
Method
- Cabbage shredded thin, dressed with lime and salt fifteen minutes ahead. It needs the time; the salmon does not.
- Salmon cooked hot and fast and pulled while the center is still slightly translucent. It finishes as it flakes.
- Yogurt thinned with lime as the sauce, on the tortilla before the fish.
- Char the tortillas dry, flake the salmon on in big pieces, slaw over, lime again. Do not flake it fine — it turns to paste.
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What the method is trying to make happen
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The technique underneath this
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Published minimums for what is in this
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- FishKenji's Cooking Show | Miso-Glazed SalmonJ. Kenji López-AltA glazed salmon fillet, and how sugar in the glaze changes what the pan heat can safely be.Link checked 2026-09-08
- FishHow One of NYC’s Best Chefs Cooks Perfect Salmon in 10 Minutes | Made in House | Bon AppétitBon AppétitA professional searing salmon in ten minutes and judging doneness by feel rather than by clock.Link checked 2026-09-08
- FishCarla Makes a Perfectly Crispy-Skinned Fish Fillet | From the Test Kitchen | Bon AppetitBon AppétitCrispy fish skin specifically: how to keep it from welding itself to the pan and tearing.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- salmon
- Fatty enough to forgive a lot, but not overcooking.
- tortillas
- They want direct heat before they go anywhere near a plate.
- cabbage
- Cheap, keeps for weeks, and completely different raw and cooked.
- lime
- Sharper and more floral than lemon, and it fades faster — juice it the same hour you use it.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
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