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Chai-Spiced Salmon Steaks with Lemon Dill Potatoes

Dan    Mains, Recipes     awesome, chai, delicious, dinner, fresh, potatoes, salmon, summer, tea

What you’ll need…

Lemon Potatoes:

4 cups baby potatoes (halved)

1/2 cup fresh dill (chopped)

1 lemon (juice and zest)

1/4 cup butter (melted)

salt and pepper

Salmon Steaks:

1 TBSP Indian spiced chai tea

2 cloves garlic

1/4 cup yellow onion

1 lemon (zest, juice of 1/2)

1/2 chili powder

2 TSP cane sugar

1 TSP salt

1 TSP black pepper

olive oil

4 salmon steaks

If you asked this salmon what food trend is ‘so last year’, it would probably say cedar planking! Now, these fish are all about getting a chai tea-based paste rubbed all over them. Trust me, I did a poll. The taste of these salmon steaks had me proclaim: ‘This salmon must have swam upstream in awesome before being caught!’. Yes, it was that good. I know a cook with tea a fair bit (examples A & B), and it may seem a bit odd to some of you, but I guarantee it is most often rewarding. Unless you do something really weird and add Earl Grey to a cream-based soup. That would be a disaster….or would it? I’ll try it and let you know.

First things first, preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Place the potatoes, dill, lemon (even the lemon halves, post squeezing!), and butter in a medium-sized mixing bowl. Toss to combine. Season liberally the salt and pepper, place into a medium-sized prepared baking tray, cover, and let roast for 40 minutes. Take out once or twice to turn the potato halves.

While your potatoes are roasting away, it’s time to make your paste. You can quite easily take all of the salmon steak ingredients, aside from the salmon itself obviously, and use your food processor to combine. However, I much prefer using a mortar and pestle. It’s a good workout, and also works well if you need to get some anger out. Mash, bash, mash! Once you get the paste to a, well, paste-y consistency, rub it lovingly on each of your salmon steaks. Place into a prepared baking dish, top each steak with a slice of two of lemon as well. Cover, and place in the oven for 15 minutes.

(just in case it’s not clear, you can pop the salmon in while the the potatoes are still cooking, so both can finish up at around the same time.)

If you want to be a little bit fancier with the steaks, I like to sometimes uncover them a few minutes early, sprinkle some sugar on top of each and place under high broil to caramelize them on top. Feel free to try it out! As well, the rice-like item in the photo is kamut. It’s a cool grain! I’ve never used it before, but my mom decided to send me a bag of it? Anyway, place the salmon and potatoes on whatever type of grain/rice you please!

Dish out some salmon and potatoes to each plate, and enjoy!

Serves 4

Total cook time…50 min

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10 Comments to “Chai-Spiced Salmon Steaks with Lemon Dill Potatoes”

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  Josh June 9, 2011 at 1:10 pm

  I bet this would taste equally as amazing on the bbq!
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  Melissa June 9, 2011 at 7:44 pm

  I found this very enjoyable reading. You have clearly taken awesome lessons.
  I frequently whisk by hand and use a meat tenderizer for things that don’t need it (like crushing nuts…the edible kind, of course) for reasons you mention. Perhaps I shall now invest in a mortar and pestle.
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  Dan June 10, 2011 at 9:21 am

  You should! They’re so cheap and handy!
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  Carlene June 11, 2011 at 6:49 pm

  This looks great! I’m totally going to have to try this recipe with the salmon in my fridge.
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  Sarah June 12, 2011 at 4:45 pm

  Just the picture makes me want to cook this!
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  Melissa June 14, 2011 at 11:19 am

  Just got my mortar and pestle!! Along with a new set of knives that cost more than the down payment on my condo. Woo-hoo! I can’t afford anything to cook now, but equipment looks *real* good.
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  flourtrader June 15, 2011 at 3:05 am

  Cool idea, using Chai on Salmon. Great photo. I have bookmarked this to try soon. thanks for sharing.
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