Spicy Salmon with Plum Salsa
This salmon is brushed with olive oil and spices pepper, then broiled to perfection in minutes! You can serve the salmon with the salsa alone, or on a bed of cauliflower rice, traditional rice or quinoa.
Servings 4 servings
Ingredients
Salsa:
- 1 cup red plums, diced (1/4")
- ¼ cup sweet white onion, diced small
- ¼ cup yellow bell pepper, diced small
- 1-3 teaspoons jalapeno chili pepper, minced (use as much as you wish!)
- juice of half a lime
- 1 tablespoon cilantro or parsley, chopped Note: some people have an aversion to cilantro, if that's you, use parsley!
- sea salt
For Salmon:
- 1 ½ pounds salmon filets, center cut (4 filets, 6oz each)
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon ground coriander
- ¼ teaspoon sweet paprika
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/4-1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper (if you are sensitive to heat use 1/4t)
- sea salt and pepper, to taste
Optional: serve over cauliflower rice, rice, or quinoa if desired
Instructions
For Salsa:
- Prep all ingredients and toss together, set aside. Note: use as much or as little jalapeno as you wish. 1 teaspoon will be mild, 2 teaspoons will be medium, 3 will be somewhat hot
For Salmon:
- Preheat broiler and place oven rack in center. While broiler heats prep oil and spices
- In a small bowl, whisk together olive oil and spices.
- Place salmon on broiler pan (to keep clean up easy, line the inside of broiler pan with foil or parchment paper) Brush salmon with spice/olive oil mixture.
- When oven is ready, set broiler pan into oven and cook salmon for 5-6 minutes, then turn down heat to 425 and cook 2 more minutes. Remove salmon and allow to rest for 3 minutes
- Top salmon with plum salsa. Serve over cauliflower rice or white rice