Honey Soy Salmon

This is a great tasting and SIMPLE recipe to make! It's so good for you too because it contains a high amount of Omega-3's.

Ingredients
1/4c packed cilantro leaves
2 Scallions
2 tsp Vegetable Oil
1 tsp Ginger
Salt and Pepper
4 6oz Salmon fillets
2 tsp Lime Juice
2 tsp Low-sodium Soy Sauce
2 tsp Honey

Finely chop the cilantro and scallion, since this is gong to be part of a stuffing you really want to make sure they are both finely chopped. Combine in a small mixing dish, then add in the oil and ginger and some salt and pepper. Stir all of the ingredients together.

This next step is done depending on how you bought your salmon. If you bought a huge filet like I did so that you can cut it down later then place the salmon skin side up and make 3 slits about 4-5in long down the back of the salmon, making sure that you only cut about half way through the salmon. If you bought individual, pre-cut fillets then, skin side up, cut about a 1-2in slit in each one. When the slits are cut, evenly divide and stuff with the herb mixture. Side note - I found it was much easier to use a spoon to push the herb mixture down in the salmon. Once this is done season the entire fish with salt and pepper.

In a (tiny) mixing dish combine (I recommend doing it in this order) the lime juice, soy sauce and honey. The reason I suggest to do it in this order is because no one wants to get a new teaspoon every time they have to add a new ingredient, so if you use the lime juice first, that will very easily pour out of the spoon, the soy sauce is harder to clear out, however, by doing the honey last you will be sure to capture any soy sauce left behind, not to mention the honey will obviously need a little help getting from the teaspoon to the dish. When all of the ingredients are poured stir this until its completely smooth and there are no clumps of honey left.

Now, there are 2 ways to cook this, on the grill or in the oven using the broiler. I used the broiler tonight, one because its way too cold to stand outside and grill, two because its much faster.

On the Grill - be sure to brush the grates with oil, place the salmon skin side up and cook until there are grill marks on the salmon (3-4 minutes). Turn the salmon over and generously brush on the sauce, continue to brush on the sauce every 2-3 minutes until cooked.

Broiler - Turn the broiler on a lower setting. Cover a cookie sheet with foil and cover with cooking spray. Place the salmon skin side down, and place in oven for 3-4 minutes. Take out of oven and generously brush on the sauce. Put back in oven for another 2 minutes, and once again cover with sauce. Repeat doing this until fully cooked.

And for some nice salmon and a healthy meal that's all it takes! To accompany our salmon I made some wild grain rice, it contained about 60 calories and .5g of fat. The salmon recipe contained 345 Calories, 15g of fat ( 4.1g mono fat and 5.8g poly fat and 1.8g of saturated fat), 39g of Protein, 10g of Carbs and 3g of Fiber. Mono and Poly types of fat are components of Omega-3, aka they are good for you.

Feast On!!!

This recipe was taken and altered from Food Network.