cooking with red salmon

[stevie21]

Any ideas?
Bear in mind I'm a rubbish cook and do not have any exotic ingredients. Only very basic ingredients are to be found in my kitchen although I don't plan to use the salmon until tomorrow so I could get to a shop in the meantime.

Any recipe ideas with these two points in mind? Rubbish cook and v.basic ingredients? Preferrably something that's noticeably healthy so no "cook the onions in butter for 10 mins, add mayonnaise...." suggestions if possible.

[Clanad]

We do this, among others...

2 Tbsp brown mustard (I have also used Dijon to good result)
1 tsp lemon juice
1 tsp molasses
4 salmon steaks, about 3/4 inch thick
seasoned bread crumbs
1 Tbsp olive oil

INSTRUCTIONS
Mix the mustard, lemon juice, and molasses together and brush the mixture over the salmon steaks, then dredge the steaks in the bread crumbs.
Set fish on a rack for ten minutes.
Heat the olive oil in a nonstick pan over medium-high heat.
When hot, cook the steaks for about five minutes per side, until the salmon has browned and flakes easily.

[nfn]

how about simply poached? Red salmon is delicious this way. Lie fish in a long dish, place a little water around base of fish and cover with foil. cook in a med oven for about 30mins. when cooked add a squeeze of lemon juice and serve with fresh summer veg. Absolutely delicious!

[dothawkes]

Find your tin opener, (usually in eldest sprogs room for the purpose of opening bud bottles), open tin, drain out into sink excess liquid, tip tin contents into pyrex bowl, (the one you have had since you got married in 1978 and only ever use when you open a tin of salmon) really try hard to remove all the bits of bone they included in the weight of the tin, even though they knew you would be feeding the said bones to your cat, who has smelt the salmon the minute you put the tin opener in and is already wailing on the doorstep.  Add generous squirt of low cal mayonaise from bottle in fridge, butter a couple of slices of bread, spread with said red salmon, eat in front of tele, who needs a cook book eh?

[billearly]

Hi Stevie,  Buy salmon fillets cook in foil with butter and chopped parsley about 20 mins in oven 150c or alternativly inthe frying pan with butter and parsley about 3mins each side serve with new pots and veggies i.e peas ,courgettes the latter can be sauted in butter and mixed herbs all fairly easy,good luck.

[stevie21]

dothawkes, I was almost with you there until you had me married at the age of one and had me making a tuna sandwich.  Isn't red salmon a bit posher than that? (that's why I bought it anyway.  OK, it was in a tin but hey...)

 

I think I may buy a bunch of fresh herbs (I still haven't opened that tin) and bung it in some foil.

Can I still do that with tinned salmon rather than fresh??

[Clare A]

Course you can, stevie21! Put your tinned salmon on top of thinly-sliced onions & tomatoes, garlic too if you like it, and some herbs (fresh or dried) scattered over, in an oven dish covered with its lid or some foil for about half an hour at gas mark 4/180C. A glass of white wine poured round makes it all the nicer. Let it cook for longer if the vegetables are still too crisp for your liking - the salmon if tinned is cooked anyway - and serve with some buttery new potatoes like Jersey Royals, or those French equivalents. Mmm!

[Solitaire]

wat u need is:

                   1-3 salmon fillets

                   4 slices of brown or wholegerm bread

                   mayonnaise(optional)

                   lettuce

                   1-4 tomatoes

                   cucumber

                   herbs(optional)

                   lemon (optional)

 1.get ur fillets and take out all the bones.them mash them up with a fork.squeeze a lemon for some zing.

2.get ur bread,spread butter and add salmon.

3.cut up ur veg and put them inbetween the bread.

4.get ur mayonnaise and mix in ur herbs and add more lemon.

4.serve with some side salad and water or juice to drink.

thats wat i call a solitaire sarnie!!!!!!!!

[stevie21]

I've STILL not opened that tin!! My fridge is fast running out of alternatives and I have bought some herbs so I'll be scoffing it soon.
If it was tuna rather than salmon I'd definitely go for one of these tasty sandwiches but I have lofty ideas about salmon.

Herbs, garlic, tin foil, other, er, stuff.... tasty goodness!

Ohhhh, after this Sunday I'm allowed to drink again so I can introduce the white wine then! Woohooo!