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in Recipes, Dinner, Lunch, Meal
, photo by Emma Shevtzoff
, nutritional review by Franziska Spritzler, RD, CDE
in Recipes, Dinner, Lunch, Meal Tandoori salmon with cucumber sauce
This salmon recipe is a snap to put together on a busy weeknight. It takes just a few minutes to prepare, and under 20 minutes to cook. This low-carb dish is anything but ordinary thanks to the deliciously complex tandoori spice blend. Served with a crisp salad and fresh cucumber sauce, this is truly a simple — and fantastic — keto meal.
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Ingredients
Salmon
- 1½ lbs 650 g salmon, boneless fillet, portionedsalmon, boneless fillets, portioned
- 2 tbsp 2 tbsp tandoori seasoning
- ½ tsp ½ tsp salt
- 2 tbsp 2 tbsp olive oil or melted coconut oil
Cucumber sauce
- 2 2 garlic clove, mincedgarlic cloves, minced
- ½ ½ lime, juice onlylimes, juice only
- ½ (51⁄3 oz.) ½ (150 g) cucumber, shredded
- ¾ cup (4¾ oz.) 180 ml (140 g) Greek yogurt (4% fat)
- ½ tsp ½ tsp salt
Crispy salad
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Instructions
- Heat the oven to 350°F (175°C).
- Place the salmon in a baking dish. Mix the tandoori seasoning and salt with the oil in a small bowl and brush it over the salmon. Bake in the oven for 15–20 minutes or until the salmon flakes easily with a fork.
- Mix the garlic, lime juice, shredded cucumber (squeeze out some of the water from the cucumber if you want a thicker sauce), and yogurt in a bowl. Taste for seasoning and add salt if needed.
- For the salad, chop the vegetables. Combine with lettuce in a serving bowl. Drizzle with lime juice.
- Serve the salmon with the salad and top with cucumber sauce.
Tip!
Ready for some DIY? You can make your own tandoori seasoning with the spices that you already have on hand. Start with equal parts ground ginger, ground coriander, cumin, turmeric, paprika, salt, and cayenne. Adjust the flavors to your liking. For even more warmth, try a dash of nutmeg, cloves, or cinnamon.
69 comments
Any substitution is going to change the macros of the meal. Feel free to choose another meal if one with salmon doesn't suit your preferences.
https://strongmetabolism.fit/recipes/keto-salmon-burgers-mash-lemon-butter%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
And zucchini salmon fritters (and a few others).
https://strongmetabolism.fit/recipes/low-carb-zucchini-salmon-fritters%3C/a%3E%3C/div%3E
And can the argula lettuce be substituted by regular lettuce or spinach?
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/tandoori-spice-blend-36...
I had to meassure everything myself per 1 portion
150 g salmon, in pieces ---- 0carbs
½ tbsp tandoori seasoning ----1 carb
½ tbsp olive oil or coconut oil--0 carbs
Cucumber sauce
50 ml mayonnaise or sour cream ----0carbs
1⁄8 cucumber, shredded ----1 carb
½ garlic clove, minced ----1 carb
1⁄8 lime, the juice 15 ml together with salads lime - - 1 carb
1⁄8 tsp salt (optional)
Crispy salad
35 g arugula lettuce --- 1g
¼ yellow bell pepper ---- 3g
¾ scallion--- 0
½ avocado mine waighted ---- 6g
¼ lime, the juice---- look above
Alltogether 14 g of carbs
Don't forget to subtract out the digestible fiber. If you click the Nutrition + tab under the list of ingredients, you can see the fiber we subtracted to get the net carbs.
If you get full, there is no need to force a full serving. Eating to hunger is a good keto practice.
You could just omit the cucumber from the sauce.
Yes, you can substitute something else. The avocado is here because it's a good source of healthy fats.
As a gentle suggestion though, site mods can you please update the fractions of veggies to actual ounces or grams? 3/4 of a bell pepper and 2/5 of a cucumber were really unhelpful. Besides that this recipe is a keeper.
Thank you for the comment. The odd fractions there come from scaling the recipe do a different number of servings than it was originally written for.