Blackened Salmon Nicoise

  • 4 salmon fillets
  • 2 tbsp oil
  • 1 sachet of Discovery Cajun Seasoning or Fajita Seasoning
  • 300g French Beans, trimmed and lightly cooked
  • 4 vine tomatoes, quartered
  • 4 hardboiled eggs, quartered
  • 1 large red onion, thinly sliced
  • 12 black olives
  • olive oil
  • juice of 1 lemon

 

Coat the salmon in oil and sprinkle over Cajun Seasoning (or Fajita) to taste. Heat a griddle pan or heavy based frying pan until smoking. Griddle the salmon until lightly blackened and cooked.

Mix beans, tomatoes, eggs, onion and black olives in a large serving bowl. Drizzle with olive oil and lemon juice and season well. Serve topped with blackened salmon.

Serves 4

Preparation: 15 mins
Cooking: 20 mins

 
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Blackened Salmon Nicoise
Blackened Salmon Nicoise 

Fusion cooking is rightly often criticised as "Con - fusion" cooking, where different cuisines meet for no obvious reason other than nobody has tried it before. Not the case here. Blackening as a method of cooking to both add flavour, as well as seal in all the juices, originated in New Orleans. Combining Cajun flavours with a classic Nicoise salad base seems to make perfect sense.

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Nutrition Info

This recipe contains the following product(s):

Cajun Spice Mix

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  Per 100g Per Serving GDA
Energy (Calories) 219.0 kJ 16.0 kJ  0.8%
Energy (Kilojoules) 924.0 kJ 69.0 kJ -
Protein 11.1 g 0.8 g -
Carbohydrate 23.6 g 1.8 g -
(of which sugar) 2.7 g 0.2 g -
Fat 4.9 g 0.4 g  0.6%
(of which saturates) 0.4 g 0.0 g  0.0%
Fibre 19.6 g 1.5 g -
Sodium 8.4 g 0.6 g -
Sodium expressed as salt 21.0 g 1.6 g  26.7%

Fajita Spice Mix

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  Per 100g Per Serving GDA
Energy (Calories) 270.0 Cal 10.0 Cal  0.5%
Energy (Kilojoules) 1120.0 kJ 42.0 kJ -
Protein 9.0 g 0.3 g -
Carbohydrate 53.0 g 2.0 g -
(of which sugar) 10.0 g 0.4 g -
Fat 7.0 g 0.3 g  0.4%
(of which saturates) 1.0 g 0.0 g  0.0%
Fibre 12.0 g 0.5 g -
Sodium 8.7 g 0.3 g -
Sodium expressed as salt 21.8 g 0.8 g  13.3%
 
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