I love the colour green. I love eating things that are green. When I was young, I’m thinking preschool, I got a concussion and ended up in hospital, where they let me eat all the green food that I wanted. Mums often ask me ‘how do you get your children to eat their greens?’. And this is one recipe that always goes down well with them – grilled salmon with salsa verde. Quite recently, I’d been eyeing on some kamado smokers and grills online, and vowed to buy one of them as I felt that that would expedite the cooking process.
I often find that my kids are keen to try veggies whilst I am prepping them. And beans sure are nice to eat whilst I am prepping them for dinner. The boys love them crunchy – so I’m happy for them to eat them raw, and for dinner I quickly blanch them in boiling water and then refresh in cold water.
Sometimes they completely ignore the beans when they appear at dinner time, even if they were eaten with great gusto whilst I was prepping.
If the beans aren’t accepted as well during the dinner time, a happy game of ‘who can crunch the loudest?’, often sees empty plates.
GRILLED SALMON WITH SALSA VERDE
1/4 cup flat leaf parsley
2 tbsp chives
3 dill cucumbers
1 tsp baby capers
2 tsp wholegrain mustard
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp lemon juice
500 grams of baby potatoes
6 yellow squash
125 grams of sugar snap peas
125 grams of snow peas
1 red onion
4 salmon fillets, skin on
Process the parsley and chives in a food processor until coarsely chopped. Add the cucumbers, capers, mustard, oil and lemon juice. Process until smooth.
Cook the potatoes in a pot of salted boiling water for 10-12 minutes or until tender. Add the squash and peas for 1 minute and then refresh under running water.
Preheat a frying pan and grill the salmon, skin side down for 5 minutes and then flip and cook for a further 1 minute {or until cooked to your liking}.
Serve family style in the middle of the table.
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