Posts Tagged ‘Indian food’

• Easy Indian Salmon

  Date: 2010.12.23 | Category: recipe | Response: View Comments

  Today was my last day of work for the week.  I get to relax tomorrow!  The hard part will be not going anywhere – traffic is horrible right now.  I’m guessing that having your Christmas gifts done in early November like myself is the exception!

  Yesterday I ran on the treadmill while watching a mixture of Barefoot Contessa and Oprah.  It’s a fantastic combination.    I’ve been watching a lot of cooking shows lately and I was inspired when I watched “The Spice Goddess.”

  The show’s theme:

  Spice Goddess with Bal Arneson affirms the power of using fresh, wholesome ingredients to make delicious, simple, everyday Indian meals.

  She made Salmon with Coconut Sauce and if you don’t know how I feel about coconut already, read this post. 

  The salmon recipe called for a few things I didn’t have on hand – namely, coconut oil, cardamom, brown mustard seed, and fennel seed.  I knew that these were things I would use again so I didn’t mind crowding my spice rack even more than it is.  However, I had a feeling I wouldn’t find brown mustard seed in my grocery store– and I was right.  I just subbed brown mustard in.

  

  Here I am in action.

  

  I used frozen salmon since that’s what I had on hand.

  

  I used light coconut milk for the sauce.  While getting the salmon ready, I was roasting Brussels sprouts (with Garlic Gold of course) and making a salad to have on the side.

  

  The flavors in the sauce were really good.  It was a different, milder take on most of the Indian I’ve had.  It wasn’t a bad thing though, I thought it was refreshing and I liked the flavors together.

  

  I think Mark liked it too….

  

  I think.

  Mark and I are heading to see his family in Illinois on Christmas day.  There is snow in the forecast so I think we might be getting a white Christmas!