Poached Salmon with Herb and Caper Vinaigrette

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 2008, America's Test Kitchen TV

Poaching rarely lives up to its promise to produce silken, delicately flavored fish. We set out to eliminate chalky, tasteless poached salmon for good.

SERVES 4

TIME 45 minutes

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a poached salmon recipe with supple salmon accented by the delicate flavor of the poaching liquid—in under half an hour—we came up with some tricks: Using less poaching liquid allowed us to cut back on the vegetables and aromatics in th...

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