NBOS

Salmon is lovely. This is really easy.

Ingredients

  • Scottish Salmon fillets, one each
  • Smoked paprika
  • Ground cumin
  • Rice
  • Vegetables

Method

For the Rice

  1. Add to a dry sauce pan a crushed clove of garlic
  2. Add salt to the pan
  3. Add olive oil to the pan
  4. Gently warm the pan to infuse the oil with the garlic. Do not turn heat up high.
  5. Once oil is infused, add rice
  6. Make sure rice is fully coated in oil
  7. Add boiling water to a depth of half a centimetre over the rice
  8. Put a lid on the pan
  9. Wait for steam to be produced from the pan
  10. Turn the heat down to medium. If too high, the water will boil off and the rice will be under cooked

You must keep an eye on this. After about eight minutes the water will be gone or low.

  1. When the water has gone, keep the lid on and turn off the heat. The rice will steam.

For the vegetables

  1. Prepare the vegetables you are going to have. Long green beans are nice, as is mixed veg
  2. Put your veg into a steamer compartment
  3. Add boiling water to the bottom part of the steamer
  4. Salt the boiling water
  5. Salt the veg in the steamer compartment
  6. Put the steamer compartment over the boiling water and add the lid

Steam is extremely hot so your veg will cook quickly. Keep an eye on this.

For the Salmon

  1. Put a dry frying pan on a high heat
  2. Season your salmon with salt and pepper
  3. Sprinkle your salmon with the smoked paprika and cumin
  4. Skin side down, put the salmon into the frying pan
  5. Turn the heat down to low-medium
  6. Cook the salmon for a couple of minutes until the part next to the skin starts to change colour
  7. Tip the salmon fillet over onto its side and cook for one minute
  8. Turn the salmon fillet right over to cook the other side, for another minute
  9. Tip the salmon onto the top (with the paprika and cumin on it)
  10. Cook this side for one minute
  11. Turn the salmon back over so it is skin side down
  12. Turn the heat to low

Plate up

  1. Warm some plates
  2. Put rice onto plate
  3. Turn off all heat
  4. Add vegetables
  5. Add salmon
  6. Enjoy