Mangalore Salmon Braised With Coconut Milk Food

BAKED SALMON WITH COCONUT BROTH

Steps:

• In a small pot, bring garlic, chile, lemongrass, cleansing broth, and coconut milk to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer until fragrant, about 20 minutes. Strain; discard solids. Keep warm.
• Heat oven to 375 degrees. Rub salmon with 1 tablespoon olive oil and season with salt. Bake until just cooked through, about 10 minutes.
• Meanwhile, heat 1 tablespoon oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion, carrots, and bok choy and cook, stirring, until tender, about 5 minutes.
• For each serving, top 1/2 cup cooked brown rice with salmon fillet and vegetables. Ladle with broth, garnish with scallion, and squeeze with lime.

BRAISED SALMON MEDITERRANEAN STYLE

Steps:

• Prepare the fruit and vegetable garnish. Peel the carrot and slice in thin half moons. Slice the celery branches and peel the clementines and remove as much as the white filaments as possible. Cube the tomato, and peel and thinly slice the onion.
• In a medium size pot, add the water, clementine juice, white wine, red wine vinegar and olive oil and bring to a boil. Add the carrots, onions, celery and tomato and salt and pepper (it should taste under-seasoned, as it will go through reduction). Then cover, lower the heat and let cook for 10 to 15 minutes while you prepare the fish.
• Remove any dark flesh from the fish if present. Wash the lettuce leaves, remove the hard white part and blanch the lettuce by plunging them in boiling water for 5 to 10 seconds, until it becomes limp and dark green. Remove and refresh immediately in cold water. When cold, drain and squeeze out the excess water.
• Then season each piece of salmon individually on both sides, and wrap them neatly in the lettuce leaves so that you get nice small bundles. Place the fish in the braising liquid, on top of the vegetables. The liquid should reach halfway up the sides of the salmon. Lower the heat to very low, cover and cook for 5 to 10 minutes. (The cooking time depends on your preferences. Some people like their fish slightly underdone in the middle, others like it cooked through. Check the inside of one fish by gently pulling the lettuce aside and separate the flakes of the salmon. The inside color will tell you how done it is. The best is when it is slightly orange inside and pink on the outside)
• When the fish is cooked, remove from the pot and reduce the cooking liquid by 1/3 to 1/2, until full-flavored. Add the clementine segments to warm them. Do not allow them to overcook and fall apart. Check the seasoning and add the lemon juice.
• Place each piece of fish in a small soup plate. Surround the fish with a nice mix of garnish and cover it with the cooking juice. Decorate with pieces of black olives, sliced scallion, and little celery leaves bouquets. Finally, brush the fish with some olive oil to make it shiny, and serve immediately.

MANGALORE SALMON BRAISED WITH COCONUT MILK

Steps:

• Make marinade:
• In an electric coffee/spice grinder finely grind fenugreek seeds and in a small bowl stir together with remaining marinade ingredients. In a shallow baking dish rub salmon fillets all over with marinade. Marinate fillets, covered, at cool room temperature 30 minutes.
• While salmon is marinating, cut bell pepper into thin strips, thinly slice onion, and finely chop garlic. In a 10- to 12-inch nonstick skillet heat 1 1/2 tablespoons oil over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking and sear fillets until golden, about 2 minutes on each side. Transfer salmon to a plate. To skillet add onion, garlic, gingerroot, and 1 1/2 tablespoons oil and cook over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until onion is lightly browned. Stir in coconut milk and salt and bring sauce to a boil, stirring. Add fillets and gently simmer until they are just cooked through and sauce is thickened, 5 to 6 minutes.
• In another skillet heat remaining tablespoon oil over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking and sauté bell peppers, stirring, until crisp-tender and lightly browned, 5 to 6 minutes.
• Serve salmon and sauce over rice, topped with bell peppers.

SALMON BRAISED IN COCONUT MILK

Steps:

• In a large skillet big enough to hold the fish, combine the coconut milk, orange juice, orange zest, fish sauce, chile sauce, garlic, ginger, mint and cilantro and mix well.
• Add fish and make sure it is submerged. If it is not submerged, add equal amounts of coconut milk and orange juice.
• Place the pan over medium heat and bring to a very low simmer.
• Cover the pan and decrease heat to low. Cook for 6 to 8 minutes.
• If the fish does not flake when prodded with a fork, cover pan and simmer for 2 minutes more. (If fish is not submerged, turn fish over after 5 minutes of cooking.).
• Gently remove fish and place on dinner plates. Spoon sauce around sides and serve at once.

THAI STYLE SALMON ON COCONUT MILK NOODLES

Steps:

• Marinade: In a bowl, combine all the ingredients except for the fish. Season with pepper.
• Slice the salmon lengthwise into four 2.5-cm (1-inch) wide pieces.
• Place in the marinade, coat thoroughly and let marinate for 30 minutes at room temperature.
• Drain the salmon. Wrap each piece on itself to form tournedos and keep everything in place with string. Keep refrigerated.
• Noodles: Cook the noodles in salted boiling water for 1 to 2 minutes or until tender. Drain and rinse under cold running water.
• Spread the noodles on a large clean cloth and let rest for 10 minutes.
• Preheat the grill, setting the burners to medium.
• Coconut Milk Sauce: In a saucepan, bring all the ingredients to a boil, except for the herbs. Simmer for 2 minutes over medium heat. Season with salt and pepper. Keep warm.
• Grill the salmon tournedos for about 3 minutes on each side; you could also use a ridged skillet. Keep warm.