Slow-Roasted Brown Sugar and Dill Cured Salmon

By lindsayvk

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1/3 cup chopped fresh dill
• 2 Tbsp kosher salt
• 1 (3 lb) salmon fillet
• Cooking spray
• 1/2 cup reduced-fat mayo
• 2 Tbsp Dijon mustard

Details

Servings 8

Preparation

Step 1

1. Combine first 3 ingredients in a bowl. Place fish, skin side down, in a 13x9-inch baking dish. Rub sugar mixture over fish. Cover and refrigerate for 8 hours.
2. Preheat oven to 175 degrees.
3. Wipe off remaining sugar mixture from fish with a paper towel. Coat a jelly-roll pan with cooking spray. Place fish, skin side down, in pan.
4. Bake at 175 degrees for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until fish flakes easily when tested with a fork or until desired degree of doneness.
5. Combine mayonnaise and mustard; stir well. Serve mayonnaise mixture with fish.