What to have with salmon?

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We eat salmon at least once if not twice a week. All I do is wrap it on foil with olive oil, salt and pepper then make mash potatoes and peas on the side. Sometimes I make fish cakes. But that's about it. Any suggestions to make salmon more exciting please.

Salmon en croute - pastry, garlic & herb cream cheese, salmon, cream cheese, spinach, cream cheese, pastry. Brush with milk and bake at 180 C for 30 minutes.

Our favourite is with rice/noodles broccoli and sweet chilli sauce.

Currently doing low carb so the other night I did it with a soy, garlic and ginger glaze and also used the glazed on aubergine and we had with pal Choi and broccoli.

WE had it the other day griddled, with roasted little tomatoes, new potatoes, smashed peas with mint and some sour cream with chives.

It was really lovely and quite fresh tasting.

We quite often put it on a stirfry. If I can be bothered I sizzle some spring onions, chillis and ginger in a pan with some soy sauce and pour it over the cooked salmon (either fried or baked in the oven).

I also quite like it with roasted veg and couscous. with a bit of yoghurt with harissa stirred through it.

I love a simple lemon butter sauce with salmon. So easy- some browned garlic, lots of butter, juice of a lemon, and a teaspoon of honey to cut through the sharpness.

We steam the salmon and usually serve with roast new potatoes and some sort of green veg.

Homemade watercress sauce is delicious too- whizzed up watercress and Creme fraiche warmed through on the hob until it goes beautifully green!

Admittedly neither of my sauces are low calorie, but they are delicious!

We either have salmon with

• couscous and roast vegetables
• pasta (on the side) in a creamy sauce with spinach or broccoli
• chilli and lime, with noodles or rice

We like teriyaki salmon with chow mein here.

I like to do a traybake of sweet potato, red onion, garlic, chorizo and broccoli topped with salmon.

Cook your salmon as you would do normally, at the same time cook some pasta, linguini or tagliatelle would work well.
Time your cooking so the salmon is done first, Quickly flake the cooked fish.
Drain pasta and return to pan, stir in some soft cheese, eg Boursin with herbs, and a splash of white wine eg Noilly Prat, as the cheese melts stir in the flaked fish, add lemon juice to taste.
Serve immediately! Delicious!

With jerk seasoning, mango & cucumber salsa and sweet potato chips.

And sometimes oven baked with an Asian-style slaw flavoured with sriracha and mayo. You could put this in a bun too.

Flake into a risotto and add peas.

I have it with sweet chilli, sticky rice and ratatouille or with diced seasoned roast potatos, carrots and tenderstem broccoli, or make canned blackened salmon with quinoa and veg. Quite like it through risotto as well.

I got a lovely recipe off tesco for Moroccan salmon with cous cous. You roast it with ras el hanout and honey. Delicious and I’m not really a big fan of salmon.

I believe the MN way is to have gravy with it! :o :o

I sear it, on a griddle... daub it with red pesto, or I suppose green would do if you prefer it, serve with mash, or side salad, sautee potatoes
or let it sit a while in some oil, soy, lemon or lime juice, bit of ginger or chilli flakes, serve with noodles.

get the griddle as hot as possible, put the salmon on skin side down, turn down the heat immediately and once the skin is seared and not sticking to the griddle turn it over and turn the heat off

I did the SlimmingWorld salmon tray bake last time I had it. Think it was salmon, Bok Choi, red chillis, spring onion and possibly peppers then lime juice and soy sauce mixed together with half poured over at the beginning and the rest poured over once cooked. Took 15 mins in the oven that was all

Broccoli and chips
In creamy pasta
In a fish pie
Baked in tomato sauce
Surf and turf with a steak
Fishcakes

Another quick idea is bake in foil as you do, but to the parcel add finely chopped fresh ginger, spring onions, a splash of soy sauce, a splash of Chinese rice wine or dry sherry and a sprinkle of Chinese five spice powder if available.
Serve with noodles (instant are fine) into which you've stirred frozen peas & sweetcorn, diced red pepper, chopped cooked broccoli etc. Or make it more Chinese style with tinned water chestnuts and fresh beansprouts .

We love salmon pan fried and servied with lemon rice, broccoli and pesto ..(splash of Franks sauce added at the table) Le yum

We like it cooked in Cajun seasoning, with potato wedges and vegetables or a side salad.
Or flake the salmon into cooked pasta and broccoli and stir in a white sauce flavoured how you like it (we go for Cajun again)

I roast some vegetables (peppers, mushrooms, courgettes etc) with olive oil, garlic salt for 20 mins then put salmon fillets on top for another 20 mins and serve with couscous.

Soy sauce and chopped mushrooms. Sounds vile I know. Wrap in foil and bake. Its delicious.

I love hot-smoked fillets made into a kedgeree. Really easy, fried onions mixed with basmati rice, chopped hard boiled eggs and the flaked fish. Bit of fresh ground rainbow pepper corns, delicious.

Salmon with roasted green asparagus , steamed baby potatoes and Hollandaise Sauce is our dinner this evening .

I've made it into a few different curries.

Served with pasta, sometimes include broccoli, sometimes a small amount of tomato sauce, often just some garlic, onion and olive oil. Or with other added seafood (various shellfish usually).

Into a fish pie, sometimes with other mixed fish (mostly cod or whiting, sometimes smoked haddock) or some prawns. (And can do this with pasta instead of coated in mash or coated in pastry with potato of some sort on the side).

PLain with veg (boiled carrots, steamed brocolli or wilted spinach usually) and hollandaise sauce, spuds on side.

Cajun seasoning on top before baking/grilling/frying, served with rice or potato and some stirfry veg with Cajun spices.

Chinese-style, with some ginger, soy, spring onions, chilli, and five spice. On rice or noodles and with stir fried veg.

Thai red or green curry. (As opposed to the more Indian curries I started with at the top).

I put salmon fillets, skin-side uppermost, in the middle of an oven dish. Green beans on one side, halved cherry tomatoes on the other. Drizzle all with olive oil and season. Bake at 180°c for 20 minutes. I like bread and green salad with, but steam some potatoes for the bottomless pits husband and teenage boys