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Lina Gautam's salmon with Nepalese potato salad: Today

Spiced salmon with vegetables
Lina Gautam's salmon with Nepalese potato salad

With a spicy marinade and a zingy potato salad, this dish is perfect for sunnier days.

Ingredients

Serves 4

Marinade for fish:

  • 4 fillets of salmon
  • 1 tsp lemon juice
  • 1 tsp cumin and coriander powder
  • 3-4 garlic pulp grated
  • Salt to your taste
  • ½ tsp chilli powder (optional)
  • 1 tsp of mustard or rapeseed oil
  • 2 tbsp rapeseed oil for cooking

Warm Nepalese potato salad:

  • About 600-700 gm of baby potatoes, boiled with skin on.
  • salt to your taste
  • 1 tbsp grated ginger
  • ¼ tsp Szechuan pepper
  • 1 tsp chilli flake or chilli powder or to your taste
  • 2 tbsp mustard oil (you can use rapeseed oil)

Method

Method

For the fish:

  1. Marinade the fish with all the above ingredients.
  2. Heat nonstick pan. When pan is hot, add marinated fish, skin down.
  3. Cover and cook in medium to low heat for 7-8 minutes (fish can be cooked in an air fryer on 175 degree for 8 minutes).

For the potato salad:

  1. Peel the boiled potatoes.
  2. Cut into quarters.
  3. Mix all the above ingredients with quartered potatoes.
  4. Serve fish with potato salad and some salad or stir fry of your choice.