Char Grilled Salmon Salad - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
This Char Grilled Salmon Salad is a PCOS-friendly recipe.
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- Salmon Marinade
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- 2 teaspoons caster (superfine) sugar
- 1 1/2 tablespoons fish sauce
- 1 (8-ounce) salmon fillet, skin on
- 12 ounces pickled vegetables, recipe follows
- Handful watercress
- 5 perilla leaves, sliced
- 5 mint leaves, sliced
- 5 Vietnamese mint leaves, sliced
- 1 teaspoon fried garlic
- 3 tablespoons Nouc Mam Cham Dipping Fish Sauce, recipe follows
- 1 tablespoon roasted peanuts, crushed
- 1 tablespoon fried red Asian shallots
- 1 birds eye chilli, sliced
- Pickled Vegetables
- 2 2/3 cups white vinegar
- 15 1/2 ounces sugar
- 2 Lebanese (short) cucumbers
- 1 carrot
- 1 small daikon
- 1 celery stalk
- 1/2 lemon, cut into thin wedges
- Nouc Mam Cham Dipping Fish Sauce
- 3 tablespoons fish sauce
- 3 tablespoons rice vinegar
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 garlic cloves, chopped
- 1 bird's eye chilli, thinly sliced
- 2 tablespoons lime juice
Instructions
- Mix all of the marinade ingredients in a bowl, stirring until the sugar dissolves. Add the salmon and marinate for 30 minutes.
- Preheat a grill to medium-high.
- To make the salad, char grill the salmon for 3 minutes or until medium rare, making sure it is well coloured on the outside. Allow the salmon to rest for 5 minutes, then flake the flesh into a bowl. Add the remaining salad ingredients except for the peanuts, shallots and chilli. Mix together well and turn out onto a serving platter. Garnish with the peanuts, shallots and chilli and serve.
- In a saucepan, combine the rice vinegar, sugar and 1 tablespoon salt, stir well and bring to the boil. Remove from the heat and set aside to cool.
- Cut the cucumbers in half lengthways and scrape out the seeds with a spoon. Cut the cucumber, carrot, daikon and celery into 2 by 1/4 inch batons. Combine the lemon wedges with the vegetables and place in a sterilized* 1 quart plastic or glass container. Pour the cooled pickling liquid over the vegetables to completely submerge them. Cover with a lid, place in the fridge and allow to pickle for 3 days before use.
- Store any leftover pickled vegetables in the fridge for up to 1 week.
- Makes enough for 2 salads
- Combine the fish sauce, rice vinegar, sugar and 1/2 cup of water in a saucepan and place over medium heat. Stir well and cook until just before boiling point is reached, then remove from the heat and allow to cool. To serve, add the garlic and chilli, then stir in the lime juice. Store tightly sealed in a jar in the fridge, for up to 5 days.
- Yield: about 1 cup
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Salmon, Lemon, Nuts.
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