Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, parchment baked salmon. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Parchment Baked Salmon is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Parchment Baked Salmon is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook parchment baked salmon using 24 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Parchment Baked Salmon:
- Take For the Salmon
- Take 4 Individual Portions of Salmon
- Get 4 Medium Cloves of Garlic
- Prepare 4 small cubes of butter approx 1cm x 1cm
- Take 4 Round Thin Slices of Fresh Lemon
- Take 1 Tsp Oregano
- Prepare 1 Tsp Salt
- Take 1 Tsp Pepper
- Make ready Parchment Paper
- Get For the Orange Infused Rice
- Make ready 1 Cup Uncooked Basmati Rice
- Get 1/2 Tbsp Orange Infused Olive Oil* (See note later in recipe)
- Make ready 1 Tsp Pomegranate Vinegar
- Get 1 Tsp Marjoram
- Take 1/2 Tsp Garlic Powder
- Make ready Salt
- Make ready Pepper
- Prepare For the Brussel Sprouts
- Take 4 Portions Purple Brussel Sprouts
- Take 2 Tbsp Olive Oil
- Take 1 Tsp Lemon Juice
- Take 1/2 Tsp Dried Red Chili Flakes (Optional)
- Get Salt
- Get Pepper
Steps to make Parchment Baked Salmon:
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Prepare 4 squares of parchment paper. These should be large enough to completely wrap your pieces of salmon.
- Season the salmon with salt, pepper, and oregano (About 1/4 Tsp of each per portion). Place the seasoned salmon on the parchment paper one filet per piece of paper.
- Place one cube of butter onto each filet of salmon as directly in the middle of the filet as you can and then place a lemon slice on top of the butter.
- Peel the cloves of garlic and then give them a hard smash with the side of a chefs knife to crush them. Add the smashed garlic cloves whole to the salmon; one per filet.
- Wrap the salmon complete with the butter, lemon, and garlic neatly in the parchment paper by folding the sides over top of the salmon and then folding the ends down underneath the fish. Think of it as wrapping the salmon like a present!
- Place the wrapped salmon filets into a baking pan and pop in the oven for 10-12 minutes until the salmon flakes easily with a fork.
- For the rice, rinse the Basmati rice in a sieve thoroughly until the water runs clear. Place in a pot with 1 cup of water and cover tightly with a lid. Cook on medium high heat until all the liquid has been absorbed and the rice is tender. Remove from heat and fluff with a fork.
- Season the rice with salt, pepper, and marjoram. Add in the orange infused olive oil and the pomegranate vinegar to give it just a little bit of an acidic punch.
- EXTRA NOTE: If you do not have access to infused olive oil, you can substitute the zest of one small orange and regular olive oil. Likewise, if you do not have pomegranate vinegar handy, then you can substitute a teaspoon of lemon juice.
- Stir the rice until it is evenly coated in the seasoning, oil, and vinegar. Any of these amounts can be adjusted to taste. Set the rice aside.
- For the brussel sprouts, cut the woody stem off of the bottom of each brussel sprout and then halve them.
- Bring the olive oil up to a medium high heat in a large pan and add the sprout halves. Season with salt, pepper, and chili flakes and stir continuously until they are tender but retain a bit of their crunch. Add the lemon juice and remove from heat.
- To bring it all together, add a scoop of your seasoned rice to the plate and lay the cooked salmon on top of it. Decorate the plates with brussel sprouts and add a small tomato salad with a fresh basil leaf for a little bit of extra flavour!
Information on How to Improve Your Mood with Food
Many of us believe that comfort foods are bad for us and that we must keep away from them. Often, if your comfort food is a high sugar food or another junk food, this is very true. At times, comfort foods can be perfectly nutritious and good for us to eat. Some foods honestly do raise your mood when you consume them. If you seem to feel a little bit down and you need a happiness pick me up, try a couple of these.
Eggs, you might be amazed to learn, are great at battling depression. Just see to it that you do not throw out the egg yolk. When you wish to cheer yourself up, the yolk is the most crucial part of the egg. Eggs, especially the egg yolks, are loaded with B vitamins. B vitamins can actually help you improve your mood. This is because they help improve the function of your neural transmitters, the parts of your brain that dictate your mood. Try to eat an egg and feel better!
Make a few trail mix of nuts or seeds. Almonds, cashews, peanuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, and so on are all great for elevating your mood. This is because seeds and nuts have lots of magnesium which increases your brain’s serotonin levels. Serotonin is a feel-good chemical that dictates to the brain how to feel at any given moment. The more you have of it, the happier you will feel. Not only that but nuts, specifically, are a fantastic protein food source.
If you wish to battle depression, try consuming some cold water fish. Salmon, herring, tuna, mackerel, trout, etc, they’re all high in omega-3s and DHA. These are two substances that promote the quality and function of the grey matter in your brain. It’s the truth: consuming tuna fish sandwiches can really help you fight your depression.
Grains can be good for fighting a bad mood. Barley, quinoa, millet, teff, etc are all excellent for helping you be in a happier state of mind. These foods fill you up better and that can help elevate your moods also. It’s not difficult to feel low when you feel hungry! These grains can help your mood elevate because it’s not at all hard for your body to digest them. These foods are easier to digest than others which helps jumpstart a rise in your sugar levels which in turn kicks up your mood to a happier place.
Green tea is actually excellent for your mood. You were simply waiting to read that, weren’t you? Green tea is rich in an amino acid known as L-theanine. Studies have shown that this amino acid actually induces brain waves. This helps better your mental focus while relaxing the rest of your body. You likely already knew it is not difficult to become healthy when you consume green tea. And now you are aware that it can help you be happier too!
Now you know that junk food isn’t necessarily what you should eat when you are wanting to help your moods get better. Try a few of these suggestions instead.
