Sauced Salmon Boats on a Soft Veggie Bed
This delightfully sauced salmon dish with mouth-wateringly soft veggies will be one of your dream dishes in no time! You can easily swap a few ingredients to make it fully gluten-free as well. Happy cooking! You can check my other main dish recipes here.
Servings: 6 yield(s)
Prep Time: 30 mins
Cook Time: 30 mins
Total Time: 60 mins
Ingredients
  • 1 kg Salmon (Preferably tails)
  • 3 tbsp Butter
    • For the Sauce
  • 3 tbsp Soy sauce (or Tamari sauce)
  • 3 tbsp Olive oil
  • 2 Orange
  • 2 Lemon
  • 2 tsp Orange peel (Grated)
  • 1 tsp Mint (Dried)
  • 1 tsp Oregano (Dried)
  • 2 dash Black pepper
  • 1 tsp Paprika
    • For the Veggies
  • 500 g Broccoli
  • 4 Pink onions (Medium sized)
  • 3 Potatoes (Medium sized)
  • 3 Carrots (Medium sized)
  • 3 Cloves of garlic
  • 3 tbsp Olive oil
  • 1 tbsp Flour (or Starch)
  • 1 tbsp Parmesan (Grated)
Instructions
    For Saucing the Salmon
  1. Squeeze the lemons and the oranges to extract their juice.
  2. Clean the salmon under water after removing the fish skin. Chop the salmon into medium sized cubes (3-4cm). (You can also remove the fish bones.)
  3. Mix the soy sauce, lemon juice, orange juice, orange peel, olive oil and spices in a large bowl.
  4. Add the salmon cubes into this mixture and cover them with the sauce throughly.
    5. Preparing the Veggies
  5. Wash and peel the potatoes and carrots. Chop them into small cubes.
  6. Wash the broccoli and chop them into small sections.
  7. Boil the potatoes and carrots inside a pot full of boiling water for 10 minutes, then add the broccoli pieces on top. Keep them boiling all together for 8 more minutes before taking all of them out of the water and placing them into a large bowl.
  8. Peel and chop the pink onions into medium sized cubes. Add the onion pieces into the bowl with boiled veggies.
  9. Sprinkle the olive oil, flour and parmesan on top of the veggies and mix througly.
    10. For Cooking
  10. Preheat the oven at 180°C (356°F), use the fan mode.
  11. Make small squares by folding the sides of baking paper sheets to prepare separate portions.
  12. You can also spread the veggies and the salmon all onto one tray if you do not wish to portion the meal
  13. Divide the veggies into each square, then place the sauced salmon pieces on top. You can pour the leftover sauce in the salmon bowl into each square for extra flavor.
  14. Divide the butter and chopped garlic cloves into small sections and distribute them onto the portions you prepared.
  15. Cook the salmon boats for 30 minutes until the salmon takes golden brown color.
  16. Bon appetit!
Recipe Notes

[yasr_user_rate_history][yasr_user_rate_history] If you use gluten-free flour/starch and tamari sauce in the recipe, this meal can be entirely gluten-free.