Asian Salmon, Ohhh Boy.

My Asian Salmon with Asparagus is a home made recipe that I came up with. It’s taken me a couple of tries and mess-arounds to perfect it, but my goodness, is it good, and healthy. I admit, I’ve spent most of the past 5 years eating take aways, but I’ve recently discovered how to cook for myself, and I regret all those take-aways now. It’s not always cheaper if you’re cooking for one, but it is way way nicer.

Equipment and Ingredients

• Sandwich Bag
• Griddle Pan
• Spatula
• Half a chili*
• About 4-5 spring onions
• Sesame Seeds
• Honey
• Salmon Fillet
• Dark Soy Sauce
• Sesame Oil
• Asparagus tips

* as someone with stomach-problems, I choose a mild red one and only used half. The intensity of the chili is reduced during the cooking process, but if you like things a bit hotter, add in a whole one or a hotter one.

Instructions

• Run the Spring Onion, Chili and Salmon fillet under the tap to give it a little clean.
• Finely slice and de-seed the chilli, put it in the sandwich bag.
• Chop up the spring onion up , put it in the sandwich bag. Don’t bother with the green-with-no-white bits, they’re taste’n'texturely unpleasant.
• Put in about half a handful of sesame seeds in the bag.
• Put in two glugs of honey, half a glug of sesame oil, a glug of soy sauce into the bag
• Put the salmon into the bag.
• Squidge it all around and leave in the fridge for an hour or two (you can do this before you go to work if you want). Put it on a plate in case the bag leeks.
• Heat up the griddle pan with a splash of sesame oil.
• Take the salmon fillet out with about half the sauce and put it skin-side-up for about a minute or two, don’t move it about or you won’t get those lovely scorch marks.
• Turn the fillet around (skin-side-down), and put the asparagus in the pan, for about 3 or 4 minutes
• Pour on the rest of the sauce for another minute or two.
• ……. Make it pretty on the plate and serve up !

This would go well with boiled potatoes with a bit of butter. You can buy these microwaveable baby potato that steam in the bag.

Asian Salmon, Ohhh Boy.

Stuff in the sandwich bag

SCORCH MARKS ! WIN !

Skin side up first.