Roasted Pecan and Herb Crusted Salmon
Salmon fillets roasted with a crunchy pecan and herb crust, offering a rich, nutty flavor and aromatic freshness. This elegant dish delivers a satisfying texture contrast and bold, savory taste.
Read MoreFruitcake-Inspired Brownies
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Brownies with all the classic fruitcake goodies...well, okay, not those scarily colored red and green mystery candied fruits, but you get the point. Lots of dried fruit and nuts surrounded by melt-in-your-mouth deep chocolate brownies.
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter, plus more for the pan
- 1 pound bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
- 3/4 cup
- 1 tbsp. ap flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 cup dried cherries
- 1/4 cup candied orange bits
- 1/4 cup dates, chopped coarsely
- 5 large eggs
- 2 cups lightly packed dark brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup roasted unsalted walnuts, chopped coarsely
- 1/2 cup roasted unsalted hazelnuts, chopped coarsely
- 1 cup roasted unsalted pecans, chopped coarsely
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9x13" glass baking dish (metal will do in a pinch).
- In a small saucepan, melt the butter over low heat. Remove from the heat and add the chocolate. Set aside to cool.
- Sift the flour, nutmeg, cinnamon and baking powder into a small mixing bowl. Don't skip the sifting or you will have to fold the batter more later on to fully incorporate the flour in. Sift sift sift! (If your dried fruit is sticking together, toss it around in the flour mixture to help keep it from clinging together in the batter.)
- Using a mixer with the whisk attachment (or, if you like pain and labor, just a whisk) beat the eggs, sugar, salt and vanilla on high speed until the mixture thickens and becomes pale in color and falls from the beater in a wide ribbon that folds back on itself, about 4-5 minutes.
- Using a rubber spatula, fold the cooled chocolate into the egg mixture. Add the flour, dried fruit, and nuts EXCEPT the pecans; fold it in quickly but gently with the spatula so that you don't deflate the air you just incorporated into the eggs.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan and smooth with the top of the spatula. Sprinkle the pecans over the top. Bake until the top looks slightly cracked and feels soft to the touch, about 25 minutes. Let cool completely on a wire rack before cutting.
