Baked Salmon and Vegetables Recipe
Baked Salmon and Vegetables
Going All Moroccan on this Dish!
This delightful roasted salmon dish is overlaid with our beloved Moroccan flavors: Lemons, olives, tomatoes, cilantro, saffron. It is also a complete meal. After including so many goodies in your roasted salmon, no need to worry about side dishes: It’s all in! This is why I love love love our Moroccan Cuisine!
The trick with this roasted salmon with vegetables dish is to make sure the vegetables are sliced very thin so they cook as fast as the fish. Make sure you don’t pile the vegetables too high in the pan, or the bottom layer will steam and release too much moisture instead of roasting and reducing. To make sure this doesn’t happen, use a roasting pan just large enough to fit everything in one layer.
Makes 8 main-course servings or 12 first-course servings.
Ingredients
- 6 large cloves garlic
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1 tablespoon paprika
- 2 good pinches cayenne
- 1 small bunch flat parsley
- 1 small bunch cilantro, tough ends cut off
- 2 teaspoons turmeric
- 2 pinches saffron
- Sea salt and pepper to taste
- 1 whole side salmon, or eight 6-8 ounce serving pieces, skin off, bones out, about 3 1/2 pounds
- 2 large tomatoes, sliced very thin
- 2 lemons, sliced very thin
- 2 dozen pitted green or black olives, sliced
- Optional: 1/2 preserved lemon, skin only, minced
- Optional: 2 large potatoes, or (carb watchers) 1 large bulb fennel, very thinly sliced
Instructions
Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
Use a roasting pan just large enough to accommodate the salmon. In a food processor, place the garlic, oil, paprika, cayenne, parsley, cilantro, turmeric, saffron, salt and pepper to taste, and grind to a paste. Rub the salmon all over with the paste, using it all up. Top with the tomato, lemon slices and olives, plus the optional preserved lemons, sliced potatoes and fennel.
Bake uncovered 30 minutes. Transfer to platter, and pour all vegetables on top with their cooking liquid. Serve warm or at room temperature.
when do you use the olives In Moroccan salmon?
Fran, Olives will be delicious here, in Chraimi, and in many salmon recipes that include stuff like fennel, lemons, tomatoes etc
Fran Oh gosh, I just realized I misunderstood your question. Sorry about that! Went back to my recipe, and made the necessary and badly needed updates. Good catch!
When do you add the olives and preserved lemons? The recipe doesn’t state.
Thanks