Baked Salmon With Leeks

Baked Salmon With Leeks

 This is perfect idea for light lunch packed with proteins and low in carbs. 

Finding a good, nutritious and yet tasty fish recipe is a mission and very often you just want to gave up and have something else. Fish smells, tastes funny and kids don’t want to eat it. Not just kids.

Let’s give it some credit. Ladies, did you know that fish is one of the richest sources of protein? Let’s have a look at one salmon filet for example;

One wild salmon filet – 6oz;

• 290 calories
• 15 gram of fat
• 0 carbs !!
• 36 grams of protein

How amazing!! Not bad for one tiny fish. One salmon filet will provide you with huge amount of proteins, and is low in calories, not to mention carbohydrates

This baked salmon with leeks and plenty of herbs tastes sooo good and you can’t taste fish at all.

4 servings  time; 45 minutes   calories; 430    fat; 19,75 g  carbohydrates; 33, 6 gram    protein; 43 g

Ingredients;

Marinate;

• 1 tablespoon of coriander
• ½ tablespoon of black pepper
• 1 tablespoon of olive oil
• 1 tablespoon of Dijon mustard
• Pinch of salt

Fish;

• 24 oz of salmon (600g) – 4 servings
• Pinch of salt
• Pinch of pepper
• 1 teaspoon of olive oil
• 1 cup of leeks
• 14 oz of potatoes (400g) – cooked and cut into thick slices
• Pistachios handful

Sauce;

• 1 lemon skin zest
• 1 tablespoon of lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon of Dijon mustard
• 1 tablespoon of honey
• 1 tablespoon of olive oil
• Salt and pepper

Directions;

• Marinate – blend together all the marinate ingredients. Set it on side.
• Wash salmon filets and dry them with paper towels. Rub marinate into your salmon. Put into a bowl, cover with baking paper and leave for about 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile wash potatoes. Boil water in the pot and cook your potatoes. When ready, drain water and cut potatoes into thick slices. You may leave skin.
• Heat up oven to 250 degrees C . Put your salmon in and bake until soft- around 15 minutes.
• When salmon is in the oven prepare leeks. Wash and cut them into tiny Heat up frying pan and prepare your leeks. Add crushed pistachios. Fry for about 2-3 minutes.
• On a plate, place ready leeks, then potatoes and on the top the salmon. Sprinkle with some pistachios. Pour in sauce.