Salmon With Potatoes & Sun Dried Tomatoes | XO 40" Wood Fired Pizza Oven
Have you been wondering what else you can cook in your pizza oven besides pizza? We decided to make a filet of salmon with some potatoes and sun-dried tomatoes in the XO 40” Wood Fired Pizza Oven to show you the possibilities of what you can cook in your pizza oven other than pizza.
If you’re cooking pizzas, the XO oven will make pizza in just minutes especially once this is up to 800 to 850 degrees. If you’re doing any kind of outdoor cooking, this can be done in your pizza oven too. If you decide to use a cast iron pan, you’ll want to preheat it in your pizza oven while you prep. We have the oven up to about 700 degrees. You don’t want to place your salmon into a cold pan, because that could cause an uneven cook.
Since we are in cast iron, you don’t have to coat your fish with too much oil. At this high heat, too much oil will just cause your filets to burn. Lightly coat the salmon with ¼ tablespoon of olive oil. To help our fire roasted flavor, we season this with a bit of kick using 1 tablespoon of a six-pepper blend. Evenly coat all sides with the seasoning, but not too much that it burns while cooking.
Pull your preheated pan out of the oven and place your salmon in presentation side down first (skin side up). Push this back in towards the hotter side to start. Where you place this also depends on where you have your main heat in the oven. This will start the initial sear, allowing this to crust up nicely.
Each side will take about 3 to 5 minutes depending on how hot your oven is. You can make this with any side; we went with potatoes and sun-dried tomatoes. We just have the little yellow potatoes that we cut into thin slices. We coated both the potatoes and sun-dried tomatoes with a drizzle of olive oil, then placed them beside the salmon in the oven.
Whenever you cook in your pizza oven, your food will get a smokey wood fired flavor. After a few minutes, flip the salmon to cook the other side. This cooking method also retains moisture and juice in proteins like fish or chicken. In less than 10 minutes, we have a full meal cooked thanks to the XO pizza oven. We have enough room to fire roast both our salmon, potatoes, and tomatoes. We got crisp potatoes and tomatoes, with a perfectly moist and thoroughly cooked filet of salmon. The salmon got a crust on the outside too without burning.
This is the versatility of cooking in your pizza oven. You don’t have to limit yourself to just pizzas, you can cook anything from fish, veggies, chicken, and sausages. Fire roast your next dinner in your XO pizza oven.
Ingredients:
- 1 filet salmon
- 7 small potatoes
- ½ cup preserved sun dried tomatoes
- 1 tbsp 6 pepper blend seasoning
- ½ tbsp olive oil
Method:
- Preheat pizza oven to 700 degrees
- Place cast iron pan into oven to preheat
- Season salmon with pepper blend and ¼ tbsp of olive oil
- Once cast iron is heated, place salmon into pan presentation side down and cook on hotter side of oven
- Cut potatoes into thin slices, and place on tray with sun dried tomatoes
- Season potatoes and sun-dried tomatoes with ¼ tbsp olive oil
- Place potatoes and tomatoes into oven beside salmon to cook
- After 3 to 5 minutes, flip salmon and cook on other side until thoroughly cooked
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