Salsa Salmon

This is so easy to make you’ll be amazed.  Salmon and salsa is all you need.  Cooks up fast and they will think you slaved for hours!  Great leftovers.

Ingredients

Salmon Steak(s)

1-2 TBLspoon Salsa per Salmon Steak

Olive Oil

Directions

Use frying pan (that has a lid) that is large enough to hold all the Salmon you are going to prepare.  Wet bottom of pan with Olive Oil and put on medium heat.  Place Salmon Steaks in pan, skin side down.  Spoon 1-2 TBLspoons of Salsa over each steak. Be very careful of cross-contamination—see Note 2.  When all Salsa is ladled out, spread the salsa to cover the steaks more evenly.  Cover pan and let the fish cook for 5 minutes.  Turn the steaks.  This is a good time to remove the skin, since it should just peel off easily. (Throw the skin away.)  Ladle some of the Salsa off the bottom of the pan to the top of the steaks and cover for 5 more minutes.  Don’t overcook fish! When it flakes, it’s done.  Serve warm.

Abstinent Measuring

4 oz Salmon = 1 protein

Note

1.        You can spend a bunch on the Salsa, but I’ve found that the cheap stuff works just as good, if not better.  My favorite is “Mrs. Renfro’s Roasted Salsa”, because it adds a smoky flavor.    

2.       Cross-contamination:  this is just a discussion of sanitary food practices when dealing with raw fish (or any other protein for that matter).  When you are ladling salsa out of the jar and on to the fish, be careful not to touch the fish with your spoon and then put the spoon back in the jar for more salsa.  Raw protein is ripe with bacteria and by touching the fish you are “contaminating the spoon and then plunging the spoon into the salsa which contaminates the salsa.  If you put that contaminated jar in your fridge, you now have a little petri dish for those bacteria to grow.  Ok, maybe my background in the food industry makes me paranoid… but it’s true none-the-less!  If your spoon touches the fish, throw it in the sink and get another one!  Only when you get done dipping your spoon into the jar and have set the jar aside is it safe to have the spoon touch the fish.  And the cooking will kill all the bacteria you transfer from fish to fish.  Again… this is just basic food safety J