Healthy Baked Salmon with Tomato Herb Relish

This healthy baked salmon dish is fancy enough to serve at dinner parties but is deceptively simple. I like fish dishes that have a nice sauce to spoon onto a side of rice or potatoes and this sauce is both tangy and rich at the same time.

You can use pomegranate molasses which you can find in most Middle Eastern stores but if you find it hard to source you can also use tamarind which gives the same sour tone.

I like to use chunky salmon fillets but you could also present a whole side of salmon fillet if you felt like it.

The main herbs are coriander and parsley and when I specify a good handful I mean almost a little bunch.

Of course, the best summer tomatoes will make all the difference but if you make it out of season you could use a can in substitute.

As always with fish, use spices sparingly and make sure you don't overpower the flavour of the fish.

I use half a birds eye chilli so it just tickles the back of your throat but you could adjust accordingly to your spice threshold.

Everyone needs at least one fancy fish dish up their sleeve and this one never fails to get people coming for seconds.

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Salmon with Tomato Herb Relish

Course Main Course

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Total Time 50 minutes

Servings 4

Ingredients

• 750 g of thickly cut salmon fillets
• 3 onions sliced into ribbons
• 3 tomatoes chopped
• 3 garlic cloves chopped
• ½ birds eye chilli chopped
• Good handful each of coriander and parsley chopped
• Salt and black pepper to taste
• ¼ teaspoon turmeric
• ¼ teaspoon paprika
• ¼ teaspoon 7 spice
• Juice of 1 small lemon
• 2 tablespoon pomegranate molasses or tamarind

Instructions

1. Heat the oven to 180°C fan
2. Season the salmon fillets with a sprinkle of black pepper and salt and place in an oven proof dish
3. Bake the salmon fillets for about 10-15 minutes so they are slightly cooked but still underdone, take them out of the oven and set aside
4. Sauté the onions in some regular olive oil until golden on medium heat, then add the garlic, chilli, coriander and lemon and sauté for another 5-10 minutes
5. Add the chopped tomato and spices along with a good pinch of salt and cook for another 5-10 minutes so you have a saucy relish
6. Add the lemon juice and pomegranate molasses and turn the heat off
7. Taste the relish and adjust the seasoning if necessary. Spoon onto the half done salmon and return the whole dish into the oven for another 15 minutes at 180°C or so until the salmon is done
8. Serve with rice making sure you spoon on some of that sauce

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