With some salmon to spare, the Swallow searched her store of salmon recipes. Finding a recipe which required ingredients easily found in her kitchen, she decided to cook the dish for dinner. She had second thoughts, however, when she read that the salmon had to be deep-fried until golden brown. She could literally feel the oil just oozing out from her skin. This was one recipe that demanded a modification, or else it would go straight into the dustbin!
Since recycling is her usual mode of operation and although she was busy with preparation for her church's Bible Camp in June, the Swallow decided to modify this recipe on an urgent basis. The modified dish is easy to produce, and many non-essential steps were also discarded along the way.
BRAISED MUSHROOMS ON SALMON (serves 4)
Ingredients
- 600g salmon fillet, cut into 4 pieces
- 100g black mushrooms
- 100g spring onions, cut into 3 cm pieces
- 1 piece thumb-sized ginger, sliced
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 tsp sugar
- 2 tsp cornflour
- 50ml light soya sauce
- water
- Soak mushrooms in enough water until slightly softened. Rinse the mushrooms. Drain and discard water. Soak the mushrooms again with water. When the mushrooms are completely softened, remove the mushrooms from the water. Set aside 250ml of water for later. Slice the mushrooms.
- Heat a non-stick frying pan over medium heat for a little while. Add salmon pieces, skin side down first. Depending on the thickness of the salmon, pan-fry the salmon pieces for about 4 minutes on each side, until they are cooked.
- Meanwhile, mix salt, sugar, cornflour and light soya sauce together in a bowl. Set aside.
- When the salmon pieces are ready, remove them from the oil and place them on a serving dish. Using the oil from the salmon pieces, add the sliced mushrooms, spring onions and ginger into the frying pan. Stir-fry over medium heat for about 1 minute.
- Add the mushroom water and the seasoning mixture into the mushroom mixture. Lower heat and simmer for about 3 minutes. Season to taste. Pour the mushroom mixture over the salmon pieces. Serve hot with rice.
1 comment:
Che - another way to cook salmon that is very easy esp when u dun feel like cooking is to :- wrap salmon in foil (make some sort of bag) together with onions, garlic, butter (if salted dun need to add salt unless u prefer salty food), potatoes, carrots, brocolli and bake it in the oven! U can add button mushrooms or golden mushrooms but u will need to add flavourings to the mushrooms before adding into the foil bag :)
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