These Tartar Sauce Salmon Burgers consist of homemade rolls, sweet potato fries, and Greek yogurt tartar sauce with freshly sliced avocados and lettuce.
7g.honey(or 2 tsp. granulated sugar, maple syrup, or brown sugar)
570g.all-purpose flour(4 ¾ c.)
2tsp.salt
oilto grease bowl
Tartar Sauce
1c.dill picklesminced
1/4shallotminced
2clovesgarlicminced
2red jalapeñosminced
1lemonjuiced
1c.Greek yogurt(or mayonnaise)
dashsalt
dashpepper
Salmon Patties
1filletsalmon(~1 lbs.)
2lemonssliced
dashsalt
dashpepper
~1tbsp.olive oil
1red bell pepperfinely diced
2eggs
1c.bread crumbs
~1tbsp.high heat oil
Sweet Potato Fries
1sweet potatosliced
spritzolive oil
dashsalt
dashpepper
Burger
1roll
1salmon patty
dolloptartar sauce
1/4avocadosliced
2leaveslettuce
Instructions
Prepare Ingredients
This recipe utilizes a lot of things that you can make yourself or buy in a pinch. If you want to make everything from scratch, you will need to start a few hours ahead of time!For a quicker recipe, you can always substitute store-bought burger buns, salmon patties, or tartar sauce.
Bake No-knead Dutch Oven Bread Rolls. You can easily buy burger buns. If you want to make it, though, this is a quick and easy recipe. The entire process takes about 3 hours, with no need to knead the bread or plan for days long proofs!
Tartar Sauce is the easiest add-on to make. I highly recommend making it from scratch. The taste is far superior to store-bought varieties and only takes about 5-10 minutes to make. I also like to use Greek yogurt because I'm not a huge fan of mayonnaise! Although you can substitute it back in.
Make Salmon Patties
Note that in this recipe I only show one burger. Salmon patties are usually much easier to make in larger quantities, though. You'll also get more rolls and tartar sauce than necessary for a single serving! This will make 4 large patties or 6 small patties.
Preheat oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit.
Place salmon skin-side down on a baking sheet.I usually use a cast iron griddle. However, the exact cooking method isn't as important here because you're just going to blend them together. If you don't have a nonstick pan or you want an easier cleanup, you can line it with aluminum foil.
Drizzle with olive oil and add a dash of salt and pepper. Slice a lemon and place evenly on top of the salmon.You want just enough lemon and oil to cover the top of the salmon and keep it from burning as the inside cooks. Salmon is already an oily fish, so use sparingly.
Bake the salmon for 12-17 minutes, or until it begins to flake. Salmon tends to be cooked when it loses the bright color and you can take a fork and it easily separates. Remove from the oven and let cool.
Meanwhile, lightly oil a skillet and heat to medium.
Finely chop the bell pepper. Add to a medium-sized bowl along with eggs, breadcrumbs, salt, and pepper. Whisk to combine.
When the salmon has reached a manageable temperature, flake into the bowl and stir to combine.
Separate into 4-6 equal-sized portions and form into round patties, about 1/2 inch thick.
Add salmon patties to the skillet and fry until lightly browned, about 3-5 minutes. Carefully flip and repeat on the other side. Add more oil as necessary to keep the pan lightly coated with oil.
Sweet Potato Fries
Cut potatoes lengthwise into roughly 1 inch wedges. For smaller potatoes, quartering them should be adequate. For larger potatoes, you might need to cut them into 6 pieces.
Lightly coat on all sides with salt, pepper, and oil.
Arrange potato wedges in the basket of the air fryer, making sure that there is space between them. It's okay if they touch a little because you will end up rotating them. However, there does need to be some air flow between the potatoes for them to crisp properly.
Cook at 400°F for 7-10 minutes, or until the edges have begun brown.
Rotate the potatoes, either by flipping them one by one or shaking the basket until the have turned over. If they're starting to brown or blacken too quickly, spritz with more oil.
Cook at 400°F for another 5-7 minutes. Cooking times will vary based on the size of the wedges and amount of oil.
Assemble Burgers
Slice the roll in half. Place the sliced sides down on the skillet and toast until it crisps.Ordinarily I would look for golden brown, but that's not going to happen here because the roll is already black! Just cook until toasted, about 2-4 minutes.
Place the roll on a plate. Top the top side with tartar sauce.
Add avocado, lettuce, and any other ingredients that you desire to the top half of the roll.
Add salmon patty to the bottom of the roll.
Serve immediately.
Tips, Tricks, & Notes
For more information on baking salmon, check out my articles on The Fundamentals of Oven Baked Salmon and Barbecue Salmon. I'm particularly fond of cooking on a well-seasoned cast iron griddle because you don't need additional oil or foil to to keep it from sticking. But there are certainly ways around this if you don't want to dedicate an entire cast iron pan to fish! Cooking salmon is also more of an art than a science. No two filets are going to cook in the exact same amount of time and there are definitely some tips and tricks to nailing the cook on fish.