Salmon With Yogurt-Curry Sauce

I'm not sure of Mr. Bittman's source of farmed salmon but if there is wild salmon available it is much better for you for two reasons: It was not grown in a pen with thousands more just like it. It was not injected with artificial coloring to make it look like "real" salmon. Both farmed Atlantic and wild King salmon have >1,500 mg Omega 3 per 3oz cooked.
We live less than a mile from a salmon farm that is clean and a good neighbor but we buy only wild for safety reasons.

Anything labeled "Atlantic Salmon" is Farm raised as no Salmon live naturally in the Atlantic Ocean at this point.

Farmed salmon is never a wise choice and should never be supported. Spring for the Pacific wild salmon if you care about your health and the environment even a little bit.

I live in Alaska where the farming of salmon thankfully remains an illegal activity. "Friends don't let friends eat farmed salmon" is a popular bumper sticker here. Alaska's wild salmon is the best in the world, for health, for taste, and for texture. It's rather shocking to see a recipe touting the use of farmed salmon.

I live on a Harbour in Nova Scotia with salmon pens. Nothing could make me eat farmed salmon after what I have seen!

See the separate "How to cook Salmon" info for full details but the short answer is to start on the non skin side and get it brown (a little butter helps) then finish on the skin side. I always remove the skin before serving fillets.

You can buy wild salmon, but it will cost you. Farmed Atlantic grown in the US is safe and antibiotic-free. The pink-colored meat comes from feed additives called astaxanthins, you can get them from crab or chrysanthemums, same as those fed to chickens

No, it is not the wise choice. Generally fattier, dyed and sometimes drugged. Wild salmon is much, much better.

I'm pretty sure that it's referring to the tip. I bet the fresh mix tastes better, but the store-bought curry powder is a heck of a lot easier and faster. :)

If you're going to buy "curry powder" instead, better to buy garam masala. It has most of the spice ingredients listed whereas curry powder does not. Garam masala is nowadays almost as easy to find as curry powder.

The recipe twice refers to "see note" but there is no note, unless it's the tip to substitute store-bought curry powder!

Wonderful and easy. I used full-fat Greek yoghurt. Please clarify which side of the fillet should be cooked first, skin or flesh down, to serve "browned side up."

This was good however - the spice mix was really just Garam Masala. No need to make it on your own. No added value. Plus the proportion of yogurt cucumber spice dressing was way too much for the amount of fish. Salmon came out great though

Farmed salmon is poison and a danger to the environment. I have visited salmon farms in Chile and was appalled at how the farms operate and what the fish (more like caged water chickens) are eating to make it look like salmon meat. The use of oxytetracycline for preventing and controlling bacterial pathogens in salmon should be a good reason to go with wild salmon or other fish.

The way I read the recipe, we are to add the seeds into our spice mix and discard the pods. And I agree that the tip to substitute store-bought curry powder for the recipe spice mix is the "note" mentioned.