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Grilled Salmon with Pickles & Salad

Surprise your loved one this NYE! ….Going to city with friends and watching fireworks, drinking all night and doing stupid activities cannot match an outdoor dinner with your loved one, candles, flowers, chocolates, chilled champagne or wine and a lovely home made dinner followed by a sexy, indulging dessert while watching the stars, kissing each other at midnight and making a promise to be together next year and rest of the life…..

Its just amazing….. I am giving you the dinner idea, for rest use your own creativity…….. 🙂 but do make them feel special, you dont know what next year brings……

Ayesha's Kitchen

Ayesha’s Kitchen

Ingredients:

  • 2 salmon cutlets (lrg size)
  • Some salt and cracked pepper
  • 1 tbspn lemon juice
  • ½ tspn mustard
  • 1 clove garlic (chopped fine)
  • 1 tspn chopped dill
  • 1 tbspn olive oil
  • A splash of olive oil (for cooking)

FOR PICKLES

  • Any garden salad
  • Lemon wedges (very important)
  • Gerkins
  • Olives
  • Pickled chillies
  • Pickled turnips

Procedure:

-Pat the fillets dry with the paper towel.

-In a bowl, mix lemon juice, salt, pepper, oil, garlic, dill and mustard, apply on the fillets and keep aside for 30 mins.

-Meanwhile you can arrange some pickles and greens onto the serving dish.

-Now heat the grill pan, drizzle some oil and place the fillets on it. After 1 minute reduce the heat to medium. Cook 5 – 7 minutes per side depending on the thickness of the fillet. Flip the side only once.

-Now as the fish is cooked, it will be flaky as well so lift it out of the pan very carefully and put it on the plate you just decorated with greens and pickles.

-Serve immediately.

Grilled Salmon & Grilled Shrimps with Cucumber – Caper Sauce

Very easy, very quick and fancy…….. I love it!

Ayesha's Kitchen

Ayesha’s Kitchen

Ingredients:

  • 2 x 400gms salmon fillets
  • 250 gms tail prawns
  • Some salt
  • Some cracked black pepper
  • Some red chilli flakes
  • Some olive oil

CUCUMBER CAPER SAUCE

  • 2 cups Greek yogurt
  • 2 Lebanese cucumbers (deseeded and cut into small pieces)
  • ½ tspn chopped dill
  • 2 tbspns capers
  • ¼ tspn garlic powder
  • Some salt
  • Some pepper
  • ½ lemon squeezed

Procedure:

-In a mixing bowl, combine everything for sauce and mix.

-Refrigerate until needed.

-Season the salmon fillets with everything given above. Heat the grill pan, drizzle some olive oil and place the skin side down of the fillets. Cook 10 minutes per side on low – medium heat.

-Drizzle some more olive oil on the grill pan and grill prawns on 5 minutes per side.

-Take out everything on the plate and serve with a dollop of sauce.

-Enjoy!

Smoked Salmon Pizza

My favourite pizza when I go to La Porchetta …..

I like the aromatic taste of smoked salmon combined with salty capers and red onion on cheese pizza base………

Ayesha's Kitchen

Ayesha’s Kitchen

Ingredients:

  • One pizza base
  • 100 gms smoked salmon
  • 3 tbspns marinated caper berries
  • 1 cup freshly sliced mozzarella
  • 1 red onion cut into thick rings
  • 3 tbspns authentic classic pure tomato pizza sauce (no herbs or garlic added)
  • 1 tbspn olive oil (to brush on the sides of the crust)

Procedure:

-Prepare the pizza base on the baking pizza tray.

-Brush the edges with olive oil and spread the tomato paste on the base.

-Put some mozzarella cheese and bake for 20 mins or until the top is bubbly and golden brown in a preheated oven (180 degrees Celsius).

-Take out and put smoked salmon slices, capers and red onions on it and serve.

Salmon Salmon On The Go

“Salmon Salmon on The Go” is just a stupid name given by me…… but the recipe is wonderful ……

Ayesha's Kitchen

Ingredients:

  • 2 Tasmanian Salmon Fillets
  • A dash of olive oil
  • Some salt
  • 1 Lemon (squeezed)
  • 1 tspn caper paste (grind 1 tbspns of capers in a mortar or pestle)
  • A pinch of dried garlic flakes
  • Some red hot chilli paste (to taste)

Procedure:

-Marinade fish fillets in all the ingredients mentioned above, including oil.

-Keep aside for 10 minutes.

-Heat a normal pan or a grilled pan. (Make sure you use non-stick pan, otherwise you have to add 1 tbspn full of oil and that is not a healthy option)

-Place the fillets on it and grill each side for 7 – 8 minutes.

-Serve hot with sun dried tomatoes, capers, onion, tomato or whatever you like.

Tips:

-Be careful when turning the sides of salmon fillets as salmon is known to be flaky. Use tongs.

Servings:

Serves 2.

Salmon Fillet With Dill

Salmon Fillet With Dill is a very light dinner and believe me its very healthy and lite …

Ingredients:

  • 2 pink salmon fillets
  • 1 tspn dill
  • A dash of salt
  • ½ tspn cracked black pepper
  • 2 tbspns lemon
  • 2 tbspns vinegar
  • 2 tbspns garlic infused olive oil

Procedure:

-Mix all the spices and sauces together and marinade salmon fillets in it for 10 minutes.

-Heat frying pan and place the salmon fillets on it. Let them cook on low heat for 10 minutes per side.

-In a serving dish arrange seasoned vegetables and place the fish fillets on them.

-Serve.

Outcome:

Salmon Fillet with dill is ready to serve.

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Tips:

-Be careful while turning the sides of salmon fillets because it is flaky.

Servings:

This will serve 2 persons.

Salmon Steaks

Very healthy and lite steaks, ideal For heart patients. Its very soft and very juicy, Favourite dish of the Kiwis. Do try them and make your life healthier …

Ingredients:

  • 2 salmon steaks
  • A pinch of salt
  • ½ tspn of cracked black pepper
  • 2 tbspns vinegar
  • 1 tbspn olive oil

Procedure:

-Marinade salmon steaks in all of the ingredients except oil For about 45 minutes.

-Now grease a Frying pan and place these steaks on it and let then cook on low heat.

-Change sides when necessary.

-When it is cooked, place it on a heated grill pan For giving it a Fine grill texture.

-Dish them out in a plate with some salads and serve.

Outcome:

Tasty and healthy salmon steaks are ready to be served.

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Tips:

-Do not let the Fillet break, handle it with care.

Servings:

If the Fillets are large then one per person otherwise 2 per person.