Mediterranean grilled salmon & tomato salad
OMG, you guuuuys!! This one is really tasty! I made a Mediterranean dressing with lemon + garlic + cumin for those perfectly ripe tomatoes. And then all that tasty dressing oozed all over the salmon for extra flavor. Finished it off with toasted Naan for sopping up juices, hellz yeah.
Make this one and let me know!
XO, km
THE DISH:
Mediterranean grilled salmon with tomato salad | serves 2
THE STUFF:
1 side of salmon
EVOO
Kosher S+P
Naan
TOMATO SALAD
2 Tbsp lemon juice
2 Tbsp rice vinegar
1 small clove garlic, finely minced
1/4 tsp ground cumin
1/4 tsp Kosher salt
3 Tbsp EVOO
2 pints cherry tomatoes, halved
1/3 cup packed cilantro, roughly chopped
THE HOW-TO:
Prepare a grill to high heat.
In a mixing bowl, stir together the lemon juice, rice vinegar, garlic, cumin and salt. Whisk in the olive oil. Add the tomatoes and toss. Let them sit at room temperature while you grill salmon.
Rub olive oil all over both sides of the salmon and season generously with salt and pepper. Grill to just opaque throughout, about 5 -7 minutes per side (will vary, depending on how thick). Transfer salmon to a serving platter.
Brush both sides of the Naan with olive oil, season with salt and pepper and toast on the grill or (as I did) in a dry hot cast iron skillet (because I love those char pockets).
Stir the cilantro into the tomatoes and then pile on top of the salmon with all the juices in the bowl. Serve with naan on the side.
THE EXTRA:
• for my weirdo friends (you know who you are) that don’t like salmon: halibut, swordfish and red snapper would be great with this.
• I used whole cumin seeds, toasted them in a dry skillet and then ground them (you can use a coffee grinder…not the same one you use for coffee, please…or a mortar and pestle). You will get infinitely more flavor into your dishes if you start with whole seeds, toast and grind (gross, sounds like a bad song title). But I’m so happy that you are loving the simplicity of my recipes (which is what I strive for) so of course you can just use ground cumin!