Baked Salmon with Lemon Herbed Rice

If you like salmon and want to have a healthy, well seasoned fish and side dish, this is for you....

4-4oz Salmon filets
1/5-Red Onion (thin sliced)
1 cup -Lemon juice
2-Teaspoons Kosher Salt
2-Teaspoons Black pepper
2-Teaspoons Cajun Seasoning*
2-Teaspoons Garlic & Pepper Seasoning
1 pinch of Crushed Red Pepper flakes
4-teaspoons butter (room temperature)
1-2-teaspoons capers
2-teaspoons olive oil
Dill
2 pieces of foil (12x18in)


Mix all of the seasonings together
On each piece of foil, spread one teaspoon of butter. Sprinkle dill (to taste), red onion, some lemon juice, and seasoning.  Place 2 Salmon filets onto each peice of foil.  Sprinkle with remaining seasoning, capers, olive oil, red onion, and lemon juice.  Close the foil in a packet style.  Bake in the oven for 18-22 minutes or until it reaches your desired consistency. Remove from oven. Serve in the foil packet.  Be careful while opening the packet as the steam can burn your hands.


Lemon Herbed Rice

Zataran's Parboiled Rice
2-teaspoons of Lemon Pepper Seasoning
2-teaspoon of salt
1 -cup of lemon juice
2-teaspoons margarine
1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley**
1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro**


Follow the directions on the bag for the rice (I use the microwave directions)
After cooking in the microwave on high heat for 5 minutes, add lemon pepper seasoning, salt,1/5 cup of lemon juice, and 1 teaspoon of margarine.  Cook for an additional 20 minutes on 1/5 of the highest power setting for your microwave.  Once the rice has finished cooking, allow it to rest for 5 minutes.  Then add the other teaspoon of margarine, the rest of the lemon juice and the chopped herbs.  Mix all together.

To marry these two dishes together, once the foil packet is open with the salmon inside, spoon in the herbed rice.  It will take on some of the broth inside of the packet.

*I use Tony Cachere's Original Creole Seasoning.
**Dried herbs can be used as a substitute if you do not have access to fresh herbs.
***This recipe will work the same if you only want to cook one filet of salmon in each packet, just modify the amount of ingredients.

Pair this meal with a nice, crisp Riesling and enjoy!

Love what you eat and eat what you love!!!