Baked Salmon Dinner Menu
Tonight's meal will be a healthy baked herbed piece of salmon served up with a quick homemade rice pilaf, and steamed vegetables. This meal comes together with little effort. The method of cooking salmon in this recipe takes a little more time as it slowly cooks at only 200 degrees in the oven. If you are in a bigger hurry, you easily could cook it at a higher temperature. 375 degrees for 10-15 minutes works also, but the lower cooking temperature results in such moist delicious salmon.
1 4 ounce piece Oven-Baked Salmon
3/4 cup rice pilaf
1 cup steamed broccoli and cauliflower
Baked Salmon About.com's guide to low carb diets provides this fool proof method for cooking moist tender salmon. About 45 minutes before dinner time, preheat your oven to 200 degrees and chop up your fresh herbs (if you don't have fresh herbs on hand, a little dried drill and thyme will work too). Dress the salmon with the olive oil, salt, pepper, and herbs, place in the oven and enjoy a little free time while it cooks! Of course you will want to spend a few minutes preparing your side dishes.
Rice Pilaf Here is a simple method for making your own rice pilaf. Of course you also have the option of just cooking up a pot of brown rice to serve with the fish, but the pilaf if a little more exciting and not much more work. For the pilaf, melt 1 Tbsp butter in a skillet which has a tight fitting lid over medium high heat. Break up a small bunch of spaghetti into small pieces (about 1/4 cup broken pieces) and add them to the pan.
Stir for one minute until lightly browned. Add 1 cup of whole grain brown rice, and cook another 30 seconds while stirring. Then, add 2 1/2 cups of boxed chicken stock. Boil the mixture, then cover with a lid and reduce the heat. Simmer for about 40 minutes, until the liquid is absorbed and the rice is tender.
Steamed Broccoli and Cauliflower You can choose to use a freezer variety of broccoli and or cauliflower which you can easily cook in the microwave, or you can trim fresh broccoli and cauliflower and steam it yourself. Heat an inch of water in the bottom of a large skillet and bring to a boil. Add the trimmed broccoli and cauliflower, cover with a lid, and steam for about 5 minutes or until the vegetables are fork tender.
For the serving amounts listed, this meal will provide about: 469 calories, 35 grams of protein, 42 grams of carbohydrate, at 18 grams of fat
1 4 ounce piece Oven-Baked Salmon
3/4 cup rice pilaf
1 cup steamed broccoli and cauliflower
Baked Salmon About.com's guide to low carb diets provides this fool proof method for cooking moist tender salmon. About 45 minutes before dinner time, preheat your oven to 200 degrees and chop up your fresh herbs (if you don't have fresh herbs on hand, a little dried drill and thyme will work too). Dress the salmon with the olive oil, salt, pepper, and herbs, place in the oven and enjoy a little free time while it cooks! Of course you will want to spend a few minutes preparing your side dishes.
Rice Pilaf Here is a simple method for making your own rice pilaf. Of course you also have the option of just cooking up a pot of brown rice to serve with the fish, but the pilaf if a little more exciting and not much more work. For the pilaf, melt 1 Tbsp butter in a skillet which has a tight fitting lid over medium high heat. Break up a small bunch of spaghetti into small pieces (about 1/4 cup broken pieces) and add them to the pan.
Stir for one minute until lightly browned. Add 1 cup of whole grain brown rice, and cook another 30 seconds while stirring. Then, add 2 1/2 cups of boxed chicken stock. Boil the mixture, then cover with a lid and reduce the heat. Simmer for about 40 minutes, until the liquid is absorbed and the rice is tender.
Steamed Broccoli and Cauliflower You can choose to use a freezer variety of broccoli and or cauliflower which you can easily cook in the microwave, or you can trim fresh broccoli and cauliflower and steam it yourself. Heat an inch of water in the bottom of a large skillet and bring to a boil. Add the trimmed broccoli and cauliflower, cover with a lid, and steam for about 5 minutes or until the vegetables are fork tender.
For the serving amounts listed, this meal will provide about: 469 calories, 35 grams of protein, 42 grams of carbohydrate, at 18 grams of fat
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