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Coconut Curry Salmon with Walnut Infused Broccoli

This was one of the quickest, easiest things I have ever made and it came out really perfect! It is super classy and great for a dinner party and I can’t even begin to describe the taste.

I was inspired to make something with coconut milk because I keep seeing Bryan drinking coconut water and I also love coconut oil, both of us because of the immense health benefits of coconut. When I ventured to Hawaii last winter for a holistic health retreat, coconut was one of the main flavours of the dishes and the dishes were all mouth watering and completely organic.

There is one ingredient in these two recipes that you absolutely must pay attention to and that is Walnut Oil. It’s really essential to the nutty taste of both the salmon and the broccoli. It is the same cost as any other oil so I recommend picking it up the next time you grocery shop and having it handy for all your cooking needs. If you don’t want to use walnut oil you can substitute it for another nutty oil or by mixing 1 part sesame oil and 1 part olive oil. Just a warning though, it will not taste exactly the same!

Anyways, without further ado, I’ll start you off with the salmon.

You will need:

  • 2 tablespoons of walnut oil
  • 200mL coconut milk
  • 1 teaspoon of curry powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon of salt
  • 2 fillets of salmon

Now do this:

For the complimentary side dish which is the broccoli, you will need:

  • 1 head of broccoli
  • 1/2 head of garlic
  • 2 tablespoons of walnut oil
  • 1/2 teaspoon of salt

Now do this:

Et voila! Enjoy!

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Sweet Salsa Salmon

I really tried, with all of my heart, to avoid the whole yellow light thing, but the truth is that I love making dinner, not only lunch. And, making dinner happens in the transition between daylight and no daylight. This meal was way too delicious to hide it from you though, just because the lighting was slightly off. And let me re-iterate…this was WAAAAAAYYYY TOO DELICIOUS! It was good. It was yummy. I want it again. I want it now!

I served it with mashed potatoes and that is all. The flavours melded together like no tomorrow.

When I cook, I come up with the recipes on the spot. I go grocery shopping, start with one idea (it happened to be salmon in this instance), see another ingredient (tomato), am inspired to make a salsa and choose my ingredients based on that inspired idea. This formula NEVER fails me!

So follow along folks!

Begin by boiling about 3 tablespoons of balsamic vinegar in a pan for 2-3 minutes, or until it becomes like a thin syrup and the sour taste is removed. It will be yummy and sweet. Remove it from the pan.

Now I cleaned the same pan to start fresh for the next part but you are welcome to just use a fresh pan. Add 2 tablespoons or so of extra virgin olive oil to the pan…

I minced one small onion and added it to the oil…

The onion needs to cook for 3-5 minutes, until it is soft and beginning to turn sweet. While they cook I diced one tomato…

And I also diced one peeled, cooked beet…

I added these two ingredients straight into the pan with the onion and seasoned the whole thing with a generous amount of salt. I let this cook only for about 2 minutes more, or enough time to heat the tomato and beet through. Once they were hot, I removed the pan from the stove…

Now I peeled an avocado, removed its pit and diced it very finely…

I added the tomato mixture into a bowl with the avocado…

Then I stirred it around with the balsamic vinegar…

Now onto the salmon. I used the same pan once more but first I wiped it clean. If you want you can use another pan (then you will have 3 dirty pans at the end of this whole ordeal, yuck!). I added another 1 tablespoon of olive oil combined with 1-2 tablespoons of butter.

I added 3 pieces of salmon skin up and let it cook for 3-4 minutes. I flipped it over and again let it cook for 3-4 minutes. But on the non-skin side I seasoned the suckers with salt…

To serve, just place a piece of salmon on a plate and scoop a (very) generous amount of the delicious salsa on top.

Et voila! Enjoy!

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