I love salmon. I love the flavour, the colour, the smell. Unfortunately, it can be quite expensive and out of reach for most people's weekly shopping lists. At nearly $30 per kilo, that's very expensvie, but you can stretch one portion out which will cost you about $10. Spread out over a couple meals, that works out to be quite reasonable.
These are all individual meals but one portion could quite easily feed 2 adults in one meal. According to the
Better Health Channel, the average female needs about .75g/kg of protein per day and the average male about .84g/kg per day. For example, a 75kg adult male would need about 63g of protein per day. On average those large pieces of salmon fillet are about 200-300g so would contain approximately 30gm of protein, quite easily enough protein allowance in one sitting for two adults and 2 children. It might not seem like much meat in the dish but it actually is.
I cut the fillet down the centre giving four portions. The two larger portions I kept aside for other meals. The two smaller 'end' pieces were used for my lunch. One of the halves of the large pieces I cut I used for the children's dinner that night just pan frying small pieces and serving with vegies.
For my first meal, I diced the salmon and quickly fried in a little butter, lemon juice, seasoned with salt and pepper and made a Salmon and Cucumber salad (lettuce leaves and sliced cucumber) with Yoghurt Dill dresssing (Greek yoghurt, lemon juice, garlic, dill).
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| Warm Salmon Salad with Cucumber and a Yoghurt Dill dressing |
One of the fillets I set aside earlier, I cut in half horizontally and made a Honey Chilli glazed Salmon Fillet served on a bed of Asian noodle salad. This was just a teaspoon of honey and chilli mixed together and spread on the salmon once cooked. The noodles were just the 2 minute noodles mixed through some grated carrot, shredded red cabbage and green onions with soy sauce and sweet chilli sauce poured over.
The last piece of salmon I had for dinner the next night and I served that up with pasta, fresh asparagus and a yoghurt cream sauce. I didn't get a picture of it but this was an asparagus pasta dish I cooked some time ago but just never got around to blogging about it. It was basically steamed asparagus mixed with the lightly pan fried chopped salmon, crushed garlic, salt and pepper and stir through cooked pasta. Add a good dollop of Greek yoghurt which acts as the sauce to bind it all together.
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| Just imagine pieces of salmon poking out through the pasta |
You don't need to eat salmon for the next 2 days but you could cut the salmon up and freeze individually.
So, out of one $11 piece of salmon, I got four dishes.
1. Salmon & Cucumber Salad with Yoghurt Dill Dressing
2. Honey & Chilli glazed Salmon served on a bed of stir fried vegies and noodles
3. Cubed Salmon and vegies for the kids
4. Salmon and Fresh Asparagus Pasta in creamy yoghurt sauce
For 2 adults you could get either 2 serves of the honey & chilli glazed salmon and one serve of the cubed salmon and vegies for the kids or a large serve of the Salmon and Asparagus Pasta for a family of four. Whichever way, fresh salmon fillets might be an affordable luxury for everyone.
