Easy Healthy Dinner: Grilled Salmon and Japanese Cucumber Salad

Ingredients

Grilled Salmon :

Salmon fillets + Black Pepper + Lime (すだち) or Lemon + Parsley + Fish Sauce + Olive Oil + Red Onion

Cucumber Salad:

Japanese cucumber + Fish floss (かつお) + Japanese Lemon Soysauce (ゆず）

1. Seasoned the salmon fillets with Lime or Lemon, Fish Sauce, Olive Oil, Black Pepper and Parsley on a bed of fresh Red Onions.

Add in salt (According to your preferences, I did not).

2. Cover the heat-resistance bowl with an aluminium foil and grill in your microwave

(Grilling time depends on your microwave settings, as for mine, it took 15 min at 180 Degrees Celcius).

3. Grill the fish to your likings (Some people love it to be flaky enough until it somehow resemble meat, some prefer with moist).

4. As for the cucumber salad, wash the cucumber, peel the skin and cut. Cover on top of it with fish floss and seasoned it with the Japanese Lime Soysauce.

Enjoy your healthy meal!!!

Simple but Healthy Hokkaido Steam Salmon

Ingredients:

Salmon fillet

Sliced Carrot

Sliced Capsicum

Sliced Ginger

Cabbage (optional)

Marinating sauce:

1/2 Lemon + (Oyster sauce + Fish sauce + Soy sauce + Sesame oil (1/2 teaspoon))

+ Black Pepper

Easy steps:

1. Bring water in the steamer to boil.

2. While waiting, prepare the ingredients and marinate the salmon.

3. Cabbage could be used as base, coordinate the rest of the sliced vegetables accordingly.

4. Steam for approximately 10 min.

Poke with fork to ensure that the salmon is flaky enough.

5. Ready to eat!

SweetNSour Garupa

Ingredients

1 medium size Garoupa Fish *Cut up and clean*

Marinate with:

Salt and pepper

1 large egg (white yolk)

Cornstarch

Preparation:

Rinse the fish and pat dry. Make several shallow diagonal cuts to the fish flesh. To marinate the fish, use your fingers to mix in the ingredients and lastly, add in the cornstarch.

Tips**: While preparing the fish, start by heating the oil. To deep fry the fish, make sure the oil is really hot before lowering the fish and it has to be completely immersed into the frying pan. The effect of this is that the fish becomes crispy and browned while the flesh is tender and moist. Cook until it is golden brown. Monitor the fish so that it is not over cooked. Please note that insufficient oil heating will cause the fish to stick to the frying pan.

Sauce

1. 1 Tbsp dried shrimps

2. 1 Tbsp Oyster Sauce

3. 3-4 cloves garlic, crushed

4. 1 Red Onion (Sliced)

5. 3 Tbsp chilly paste

6. 3 Tbsp chilly sauce

7. 4 Tbsp tomato sauce

8. 1 ½ Tbsp Vinegar

9. ¼ glass of canned pineapple syrup

10. Peeled fresh baby carrots, tomato (cut into cubes), pineapple cubes

11. Salt

12. 1 tablespoon cornstarch mixed with 3 tbsp water

13. Garnish using green onions or coriander

Preparation

Heat 3 tbsp of oil in a frying pan. Stir fry 1, 2 for about 30 seconds and add 3, 4 until aromatic. Add 5, 6, 7 and stir fry for 5 minutes. Add 8, 9 ~add water sufficiently. Add 10, 11. Add 12 stirring to thicken. Garnish with 13.

There you go! Your SwwwweettNSour Garupa!!!