Skinny dinners: salmon

I haven’t written any recipe posts for ages, but I thought I’d share one of my favourite recipes – I try and have it once a week. It’s reasonably healthy as well and can be served in a number of ways. If you don’t like salmon, keep your eyes peeled for my next post.

You will need (per person):

• A fillet of salmon
• 3 tsp soy sauce
• ½ tsp of fresh grated ginger
• ½ tsp of chilli flakes

Baked salmon

One of my favourite dinners, it’s best to leave the top of the parcel uncovered, so the edges caramelise.

• Combine the ingredients of the marinade in a ramekin
• Place the salmon in a foil parcel and pour over the marinade
• Cook on gas mark 6 for 20 minutes

I normally serve this with vegetables, green works best (Sainsbury’s do an amazing combination of broccoli/sugar snaps/asparagus) or stir-fried vegetables. Salad would work equally as well.

Salmon & broccoli tagliatelle

I cooked this the other week as a first attempt, making it up as I went along. It surprisingly turned out really well.

• Cook the salmon for 20 minutes under the grill on in the oven (gas mark 6)
• Boil a pan of water and add the tagliatelle (I used 40g)
• Five minutes from the end of cooking, steam 100g of tenderstem broccoli
• In a bowl, create the marinade and then add the salmon, flaked
• Drain the pasta and cut the broccoli stems into thirds
• Add the salmon and add more soy if necessary

Will you be giving this a go?