Cooking salmon

sparklelioness

I love salmon. I recently bought a big piece of wild salmon at Whole Foods, cut an 8 oz piece, and sprayed my pan with cooking spray. Usually when i get salmon one side has the skin still on it. i always find it a pain to take off the skin when its raw, so i just cook the non skin side first, and then turn it over and do the skin side-when its done the skin sticks to the pan and i can lift the fish right out, with no skin. So thats what i did tonight, and as usual it was delish. I was putting the calories in my log when it hit me.

The skin!! The fatty, fatty skin . Eff, how did i not think of that? The skin has a ton of fat and oil in it, and my fish was cooking in that i dont know how many calories it would have added-maybe a couple hundred? From now on I'm going to cut the skin off before i cook it.

I'm just curious tho- does anyone else cook it with the skin on? Am i wrong to think my healthy fish is soaking up tons of oil from it?

Btw i know salmon has good fat, but i dont want EXTRA fat from the skin

sparklelioness

Nudge

JesterMFP

I cook it and eat it with the skin on. It's yummy and good for you. I don't know how many calories it would have added, but you should be able to find salmon with skin on in the MFP database.

I_love_frogs

I personally don't worry about it. I eat my salmon with skin on all the time because its healthy! And it tastes good :P

Really tho, I wouldn't worry about "it being soaked in the oil" its natural oil from the fish, and it is very very good for you. Could do a lot worse!!

And...<I like to eat the skin...shhhhhhh>

needamulligan

We grill salmon skin side down and don't flip it. Turns out perfect because the skin keeps it from falling apart on the grill. Yum!

Julietecosse

I love salmon. I marinate it with lemon juice, salt, pepper and dill for at least 30 minutes. I then steam it in microwave for 2 to 3 minutes, I dont like eating the skin, but it slips off easily when cooked this way. Really delicious for salmon lovers.

graelwyn

I get frozen wild alaskan salmon fillets, they don't appear to have any skin which is pretty good.

glenn1barber

I buy the frozen fillets(4oz) put a little fat free butter on it microwave for 4 minutes. These fillets are skinless I think

mmapags

What fat that's in the skin is full of Omega 3 fatty acids. Most of it gets rendered off in the cooking. No way it's a couple of hundred calories. I think you are overthinking this.

Ny_meria

At Whole Foods,the people at the counter will remove the skin for you, if you request. I do that every time.
The same goes for chicken skin and they will remove that as well

Hope this helps!