A Simple Salmon to Tell Someone You Love Them
The New York Times
This 30-minute recipe for “Marry Me Salmon” feels special but is easy enough for a weeknight.
Can you “Marry Me” anything?
A number of “Marry Me” recipes, a protein draped in a creamy sun-dried tomato sauce (“Marry Me Chicken”; my colleague Alexa Weibel’s tomato beans, which readers are calling “Marry Me Beans”), made my editors and me wonder: Just because you can drench something in that dreamy ’90s pink sauce, should you?
You should.
How else would you find out that crisp-skinned salmon is spectacular with “Marry Me” sauce?
Lindsay Funston’s Tuscan-style chicken recipe raked in millions of views after it was published on Delish.com in 2016 and found new life on TikTok years later. “Marry Me Salmon” is a fantastic riff, a fish dinner you can cook for yourself and the love of your life any day of the week. It’s also nothing new.
In 2023, Alyssa Rivers of the Recipe Critic blog published a version with lemon zest, which helpfully brightens fatty fishes, as did Hajar Larbah, who runs the blog Moribyan. As Ms. Larbah describes the salmon, it’s “so good it will make you say ‘Marry Me’ to whomever makes it for you!” Hers omits the sun-dried tomatoes but maintains the dish’s lush, creamy essence. There are others, too, that vary in ingredients, but all bear the title of “Marry Me.”
