Baked salmon with four veggie sides
"Babe, can we have a nice dinner at home tonight?"
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Simple protein, lots of vegetables (sometimes a whole head of garlic) and slow carbs for energy. Nothing complicated. Just real food, variety and enough colour on the plate to know everyone's getting what they need.
Four veggie sides is me going all out, not a rule. Pick one or two you love, and you'll find how I cook each one below.
The recipe
Serves 4 · Metric, with cups in brackets- 4 salmon fillets
- Your favourite spice rub
- A few knobs of butter
- ½ cabbage, chopped
- 250g mushrooms, choppedI used button and lion's mane
- 1 head of broccoli, in florets
- 200g green beans
- 1 head of garlic, chopped
- Avocado or olive oil
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- Sea salt
- Brown rice or another whole grain, to serve
Salmon: pat dry, top with the spice rub and a sprinkle of salt, and dot with butter. Bake at 200°C for 15 minutes.
Cabbage: sauté with a little oil and some of the garlic until soft. Sprinkle with salt.
Mushrooms: sauté with oil and garlic until the liquid has evaporated and they've browned. Sprinkle with salt.
Broccoli: steam for 4 minutes, drain and rinse with cold water. Lightly cook some garlic in oil, turn off the heat and toss the broccoli through.
Green beans: steam for 4 minutes, drain and rinse with cold water. Lightly cook the rest of the garlic in oil, turn off the heat, add the soy sauce and toss the beans through.
Serve everything with brown rice or another whole grain.
My Nourish3 Method is simple: protein, healthy fat and fibre whenever you eat. A full Nourish3 dinner: salmon for protein and healthy fat, your veggies and whole grains for fibre.
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