After all the Valentine’s Day sweets I needed to eat something healthy and simple… and what’s healthier than fish? This is a very quick and easy fish dish. I have always liked boiled fish with mayo… must be because when I was a child I had a nursery rhymes book about food and one of my favourite rhymes was about a fisherman who would eat his freshly caught fish with mayo! Anyhow, this is a slight variation of the original recipe as I am using mayo mixed with ketchup, and it is just as delicious.
Ingredients for 4 persons:
2 small salmon tails, cleaned and halved
1 bay leaf
5 pepper corns
1 slice of lemon
Salt
Water
For the easy pink sauce:
1/3 of Tomato Ketchup
2/3 of Mayonnaise
Sliced steamed potatoes and carrots to serve
Wash the salmon tails and keep them aside.
Put the bay leaf, pepper corns, slice of lemon and salt in a pot.
Now fill the pot with water and add the salmon tails.
Put the pot on a medium fire and cook uncovered till the water starts boiling, then lower the flame and keep simmering until the fish has cooked through. Drain it and keep it to cool down.
In the meantime, steam and slice the vegetables and prepare the pink sauce by mixing the tomato ketchup with the mayonnaise.
Serve the salmon at room temperature with the steamed vegetables and the pink sauce on the side.
delicious simple and quick but would do salad greens instead mmm
Interesting! One of the restaurants I worked in served the best homemade tartar, I think I’d be tempted to use that since I’m not a big ketchup fan. My daughter thought there was something wrong with me when she first found out! I’ve been craving salmon like crazy but I’ve never boiled it because I’ve been concerned about the texture.
Yum… homemade tartar!!! It would surely go great with this dish. I am not a big fan of ketchup either, but I first made this dish for my daughter (who loves ketchup just like yours!!!) who is in the “pink period”…. and loves everything pink, including salmon. And after tasting it I liked it too… hehehe I guess I haven’t grown up too much! 😉
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