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    Help! How should I prepare my salmon?!

    Posts: 19 Member
    edited January 16 in Food and Nutrition
    Making salmon for dinner.... Just looking for suggestions on how to prepare! Thanks!

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    • Posts: 1 Member
      Fresh lemon juice and pepper. Keep it simple.
    • Posts: 1 Member
      My favorite way is to combine some 1/8C low sodium soy sauce 2T PURE maple syrup (not the fake stuff), and 2 cloves crushed garlic. This can usually cover (2) 4oz portions of salmon. Wisk these items together, marinate your salmon for around 10-15 minutes, pour it all into a glass baking dish - you might want to brush some of the marinade in the pan over the fish to really coat it - and bake at 350 until it's cooked (around 20-25 minutes). You can add a little water to the dish to help keep the marinade from burning in the pan. Delish.
    • Posts: 1,599 Member
      grilled with mango salsa
      pan fried with garlic and olive oil
      oven baked over quinoa
      painted with terriyaki sauce and baked
      BBQ it
      covered in sauted mushrooms and onions
    • Posts: 2,505 Member
      I broil mine in the oven if I can't grill it outside. I usually put a tiny bit of salt and some fresh ground pepper on it. If I'm in the mood for something sweeter, I'll baste it with some fresh OJ and maple syrup with a bit of minced garlic in it.
    • Posts: 108 Member
      I just broiled mine with old bay seasoning tonight for dinner and it was great.
    • Posts: 2,264 Member
      Making salmon for dinner.... Just looking for suggestions on how to prepare! Thanks!

      Salmon fillet with lemon slice and herbed rosemary thyme butter wrapped in alfoil => Bake/broil in the oven@400 degrees@40 mins. [How my sister generally prefers to have her salmon]
    • Posts: 34,463 Member
      I'm in the Pacific NW. Land of salmon. I like to put the salmon on a large piece of foil on a baking sheet (like a cookie sheet) - add a couple large slices of onion and a little lemon and pepper and fold up the edges of the foil to make a little pillow. Cook in preheated oven at 350 for about 10-12 minutes. Take a look at it, and cook more if it needs it. (Depends on the thickness of the cut.)
    • Posts: 41 Member
      Bake at 400 for 10-15 minutes. Just pepper and lemon juice. I find if I use pre-made rubs, the salmon ends up over seasoned and I don't like it. So now I just use 1/4 lemon to season after it's cooked.
    • Posts: 851 Member
      brown sugar and low sodium soy sauce....to die for
    • Posts: 608 Member
      Don't overload it with seasonings. A little bit of lemon juice and cajun spices are great. I have a rice cooker / food steamer, so I usually put it in the nesting basket with some fresh cut raw veggies, like broccoli, zucchini and carrots. Add rice to the pot too. Super easy and only one pot to clean afterwards.
    • Posts: 291 Member
      Coat with olive oil and cajun seasoning and bake...yummy!
    • Posts: 186 Member
      http://www.howsweeteats.com/2012/03/toasted-sesame-ginger-salmon/

      Ridiculously yummy!
    • Posts: 583
      This recipe is great and super easy...moist & flaky fish. Just adjust cooking time for the thickness of your fish.. I like salmon w/ dill weed or capers.

      Healthy Fish Recipe

      Seared-and-Steamed Fish

      Work time: 10 minutes / Total time: 20 minutes /
      Servings: 4

      You can use this technique for any medium firm- to firm-textured fish, either steaks or fillets. We experimented with tilapia, hake, perch, sea bass, cod, halibut, salmon, swordfish, and sturgeon with excellent results.

      2 tsp canola oil
      4 cod or other fish steaks or fillets, about 1" thick (about 6 oz each)

      1. HEAT oil in large nonstick or cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat until very hot, about 3 minutes. Season fish with salt and pepper. Put in pan and cook until golden brown, about 2 minutes.

      2. TURN fish and cover pan with tight-fitting lid. Remove pan from heat and let fish steam until just done, about 10 minutes.

      Read more: http://www.prevention.com/food/cook/healthy-fish-recipes-prevention?page=2#ixzz2MoK32xLS
    • Posts: 98 Member
      I usually marinate my fish in my favorite vinaigrette dressings for about 20-30 minutes and they come out delicious :)
    • Posts: 3,653 Member
      First, you need to tell him that it's nothing personal. If you can, explain the food chain and his place in it. All the better if he has had his run and spawned. The important thing with salmon is DON'T talk down to them. They'll know you're lying if you start with that old trope about fish heaven. So level with him and just explain that you're hungry.

      Give him a chance to pray to Chumbalah Red Salmon King, and let him make his peace.

      Then, shout "what's that over there!?" and when he turns to look, brain him with a pipe, freeze him, and continue with the usual processes.

      Others prepare their salmon in different ways but I think it's important to take a humanitarian - - or dare I say pescetarian? - - approach.

      Best of luck.
    • Posts: 29 Member
      Coat with olive oil and cajun seasoning and bake...yummy!

      Ditto!! Cajun all the way!, If you have a mango salsa that is yummy to add -- or I love it Cajun style with some avocado. YUM!
    • Posts: 764 Member
      I comoletely agree with keeping it simple! For me salmon is a treat so I really want to enjoy the salmon flavors so all I add is fresh squeezed lemon juice, bake it for 10-25mins (i cant quite remember exactly how long but when you take a piece of it with a fork and its flaky) and eat it with some avocado. Delicious! !
    • Posts: 8,059 Member
      Cedar plank.
    • Posts: 128
      Pan fried with salt & cumin. I serve it with a sauce of sour cream, salt, pepper, cumin, and lime juice.
    • Posts: 63 Member
      grilled with mango salsa
      pan fried with garlic and olive oil
      oven baked over quinoa
      painted with terriyaki sauce and baked
      BBQ it
      covered in sauted mushrooms and onions

      :happy: Thanks!
    • Posts: 84 Member
      Cavender's greek seasoning and cook it in a skillet with olive oil.
    • Posts: 26 Member
      I like to keep it easy and simple. I mix up some extra virgin olive oil with some garlic (or garlic salt in a pinch) and then I lay out some foil and lay the salmon and whatever veggies i want (asparagus is my fav) on the foil and brush the olive oil/garlic mixture over the salmon and veggies. Bake @375 or 400 for 20-30 minutes and bam, my whole meal is done! easy clean up too!
    • Posts: 83 Member
      Cavender's greek seasoning and cook it in a skillet with olive oil.

      ^^^Definitely this^^^
    • Posts: 514 Member
      I like it baked with lemon pepper and sea salt seasoning....So yummy!
    • Posts: 56 Member
      First, you need to tell him that it's nothing personal. If you can, explain the food chain and his place in it. All the better if he has had his run and spawned. The important thing with salmon is DON'T talk down to them. They'll know you're lying if you start with that old trope about fish heaven. So level with him and just explain that you're hungry.

      Give him a chance to pray to Chumbalah Red Salmon King, and let him make his peace.

      Then, shout "what's that over there!?" and when he turns to look, brain him with a pipe, freeze him, and continue with the usual processes.

      Others prepare their salmon in different ways but I think it's important to take a humanitarian - - or dare I say pescetarian? - - approach.

      Best of luck.

      :laugh:
    • Posts: 2,251 Member
      olive oil and thyme. Grill it.
    • Posts: 2,362 Member
      Slather it with some Mayo, sprinkle with dill, and grill. Ill be over for dinner!
    • Posts: 32
      I like to sprinkle it with the sodium free powdered chicken broth.
    • Posts: 86 Member
      We had salmon last night
      Mixed a teaspoon each of Dijon Mustard, Honey and olive oil together
      Coated the top of the skinless fillets with this mixture
      then sprinkled with rosemary, sea salt and fresh cracked pepper
      Broiled at 350 for about 30 to 40 min

      Very yummy slightly sweet- even my salmon hating son said it was okay!
    • Posts: 890 Member
      brown sugar mixed into soy sauce. soooooooo flippin' good!
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