Cooking Frozen Salmon! You Heard Me Right!

Have you ever came to a point such that eating out on weekdays is getting frustrating?

For weekdays dinner now, we try to cook and eat at home.  Reason being, we think it is healthier to cook our own food and we know what we put in the food we cook.  Another reason being we got kind of sick of eating out, not knowing what to buy (fish ball noodles, chicken rice again?!) and we can't be eating those all the time right?!  

I started to find recipes that are quick to cook.  I'm just lazy…* LOL* and found out…

Do you know that you can cook frozen fish?!  YES!  I'm not kidding you…

Do you know you do not need to thaw the frozen fish?  It's true, you don't!

Cook It Frozen is a website that shows the different techniques of preparing and making delicious seafood meals in as little as 15 minutes.

We tried one of the recipes listed and true enough, we had our delicious and healthy dinner in…… you guessed it, 30 minutes!

Alaska Salmon Penne with Grean Beans and Vinaigrette

Adapted from CookItFrozen

Serves 4

Ingredients:

250gm penne (or other pasta shapes)

100gm fresh green beans, trimmed and halved

1/2 carrot, julienned

Finely grated zest and juice of 1 lemon / lime     

1/2 teaspoon sea salt

3 Tablespoons olive oil, divided

1 portion wild Sockeye Salmon, frozen from TAG (Read about the benefits of wild salmon here!)

Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Parsley (garnish)

Directions:

Cook the pasta in boiling water for about 8 minutes, or according to package instructions, until al dente.  Add the green beans and carrots to the water during the last 3 to 4 minutes of cooking time.  

Drain pasta and beans, reserving 3 tablespoons of the cooking liquid, then return pasta, beans and reserved liquid to the pan.  Add the lemon/lime zest, lemon/lime juice, sea salt and 2 tablespoons of olive oil.

Rinse the ice glaze from the frozen salmon (it's cold!!)  Look at the color of the Sockeye Salmon

While pasta cooks, rinse any ice glaze from frozen salmon under cold water; pat dry with paper towel.  Heat a heavy nonstick skillet over medium-high heat.  Brush both sides of salmon with 1 tablespoon olive oil.  Place salmon in heated skillet and cook, uncovered, about 3 to 4 minutes, until browned.  Shake pan occasionally to keep fish from sticking.  

Turn salmon over; cover pan tightly and reduce heat to medium.  Cook an additional 6 to 8 minutes for frozen salmon.  Cook just until fish is opaque throughout.  

Break salmon into large chunks (removing skin, if any); add to pasta.  Cook and stir gently over medium heat for 1 to 2 minutes.  Season to taste with salt and pepper.  Garnish and enjoy!

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