This salmon recipe is full of flavour thanks to its use of fresh herbs and spices. A healthy hit of salmon and plenty of greens means it’s packed full of essential nutrients and vitamins too.
It’s super quick to make and would serve equally well as a midweek dinner as it would a fancy looking dinner party dish.
HOW TO MAKE MALAYSIAN SALMON WITH STICKY RICE AND ASIAN GREENS
Ingredients
For the rice:
- 250g Thai sticky rice, washed
For the salmon:
- ½tbsp sunflower oil
- 4 salmon fillets
- 3 garlic cloves, crushed
- 1 red chilli, seeds removed and finely chopped
- 3tbsp ketjap manis
For the greens:
- ½tbsp sunflower oil
- 200g mangetout
- 200g baby or spring greens, shredded
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 2 spring onions, finely sliced
Method
- For the rice: Bring it to the boil along with 450ml water, cook for 15 minutes then reduce to a simmer. Gently cook for another 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and mix to fluff up the grains.
- For the salmon: Heat the oil in a heavy-based frying pan over a medium-high heat and fry the salmon skin side down for 2-3 minutes or until crisp. Mix the garlic with the chilli then add to the pan, turn over the salmon and add 1tbsp water, cook for 2 minutes then remove the salmon. Add the ketjap manis, turn up the heat and bubble for 1 minute. Pour over the salmon fillets.
- For the greens: Heat the oil in a heavy-based frying pan over a medium heat, add the mange tout, then after 1 minute add the spring greens, garlic and spring onions. Cook for another 2-3 minutes.
Top Tip for making Malaysian Salmon with Sticky Rice and Asian Greens
Ketjap Manis is a thick Indonesian soy sauce that’s sweeter than Japanese varieties - ideal for glazes, dips and marinades and available at Marks & Spencer
Katie McLelland is a food stylist, chef, recipe developer, home economist, eater- and everything in-between. She specialises in creating recipes for social media channels to editorial and advertising content as well as the occasional bread, cake, pudding and menus in real life.
Katie is also a home economist for film and TV. Current projects including Cooking with the Stars (South Shore), Matilda (Poppet Productions), Landscapers (Sister), This Sceptered Isle (Revolution Films) and The Great season 2 (Yekaterina Uk ltd).
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