- 1 pound wild-caught sockeye salmon filets
- 3 tablespoons cilantro, chopped
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1 tablespoon mustard
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- 2 tablespoons avocado oil (or olive oil)
- 2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
- lemon slices and cilantro for garnish
- 2 zucchinis
- Preheat oven to 450°F, and line a baking sheet with foil. Lightly grease foil to prevent sticking.
- Chop 3 tablespoons of cilantro. Peel and mince 3 garlic cloves.
- In a small bowl, mix together chopped cilantro, minced garlic, 1 tablespoon mustard, ¼ teaspoon sea salt, ¼ teaspoon black pepper, 2 tablespoons avocado oil, and 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice.
- Lay salmon fillets on the lined-baking sheet (skin side down), and spoon the cilantro-mustard sauce all over both sides of the fish.
- Bake in the oven for 10-14 minutes, until just cooked through and flaky. (Avoid over cooking or it will be dry.)
- Meanwhile, use a spiralizer, julienne peeler, or vegetable peeler to turn your zucchinis into noodles, and lightly sautee in a skillet with a bit of olive oil to warm and soften and sprinkle with garlic powder.
- Plate the zucchini noodles, add a bit of salt and pepper over the top, and top with a salmon fillet. Garnish each fillet with a slice of lemon and a bit of fresh cilantro.
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Here’s an interesting fact: Your brain is 60% fat, made mostly of the Omega-3 fatty acid, DHA. DHA is also the main structural fatty acid in the central nervous system and retina.
Wild-caught salmon is packed with Omega-3 fatty acids, DHA and EPA.
The fatty acids and nutrients found in wild salmon support your brain, reduce cardiovascular inflammation, protect your eyes, supply natural vitamin D, help to fight insomnia, and are excellent for women who are pregnant or nursing.
And feeding salmon (which is rich in Omega-3’s) to preschool children has shown to aid in the prevention of ADHD and can even boost academic performance.
So if you’re a health nut, you should be eating more wild-caught salmon.
But sometimes sourcing and cooking wild-caught fish can be a bit intimidating. You might be land-locked, have a penchant for overcooking seafood, or your fish recipes might come out a little too… fishy.
No problem.
This mouth-watering salmon recipe is a snap to make. You’ll have the whole thing done in 20 minutes flat.
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Here’s a Pro Tip for Buying Salmon: If you’re picking up salmon fillets from the seafood counter, ask for middle cuts of the fish of equal size. Even though my wife, Alyson, eats smaller portions of salmon, we buy equal-sized fillets so they’ll cook evenly.
So if you want to upgrade your brain, go ahead and indulge in that fatty cut of wild-caught fish.
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What’s your favorite way to get salmon in your diet? Leave a comment below to share your tips or recipe!
I love salmon but haven’t had it since 2011 when then Fukushima disaster happened. They are still dumping toxic water into our ocean after almost 5 years. Do your research…our ocean and sealife are dying. Do you really think it’s safe to eat?
Yes, our oceans are increasingly polluted. So is our air and our land. But eating seafood certainly has its benefits. To mitigate risks from heavy metals, we tend to avoid larger fish like tuna in favor of sardines and salmon for real-food Omega 3’s.
The State of Alaska has been monitoring our #1 sustainable, renewable resource for radiation since 2011. There is no radiation in Alaska Salmon. https://dec.alaska.gov/commish/press_releases/2015/no-fukushima-related-radiation-detected-in-alaska-seafood.pdf
Thank you for this, Christa!
Recipe looks delicious but …Is it safe to use Olive Oil in 450 degree oven? It has a smoke point of about 350 degrees?
Alternatively, you can use avocado oil. Let us know if you try the recipe and what you think!
I made this last night. My wife informed me I need to make it again very soon. It was so simple to make yet super tasty.
Do you recommend eating the skin along with it? If not eating skin is it better to remove before cooking? Love your choconut cookies by the way!
You can definitely eat the skin. Or a lot of times we’ll save the skin to give to the dog as a treat (as long as it’s not too salty).
Got tired of describing myself as someone that “doesn’t really cook” so decided to work through the Wild Diet 30-day meal plan to start expanding my cooking skills. First receipe was this salmon……and OMG! It’s delicious! And ridiculously easy to make. Excited to work my way through the other receipes.
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