Sesame Salmon Bites with Cucumber Salad
These Sesame Salmon Bites with Cucumber Salad are the perfect healthy meal.
Ingredients
Cucumber Salad
- 1 cucumber - finely sliced
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- ½ teaspoon sesame seeds
- ½ tablespoon toasted sesame oil
- ½ tablespoon rice vinegar
- 1 scallion - finely chopped
- juice from ½ lime
Salmon
- 2 servings salmon - cut into cubes preferably wild caught
- 1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil
- 4 tablespoons tahini
- 3 tablespoons soy sauce or tamari
- 3 tablespoons rice vinegar
- 1-2 tablespoons honey or maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon grated ginger
- 1 clove garlic - minced or grated
- juice from ½ lime
- 1 tablespoon water adjust to how thick you want the sauce to be
Other ingredients
- ½ cup cooked rice or grain of choice
- ¼-1/2 avocado - diced
- additional fresh chopped scallions
- sesame seeds
- red pepper flakes
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
- Add tahini and all following ingredients to a bowl. Mix until smooth. Coat the salmon in half of the tahini sauce, reserving the rest for later. Let marinate for 10 minutes.
- Add salmon to the sheet pan. Cook for 6-8 minutes.
- While salmon is cooking, toss together the cucumber salad ingredients.
- Form bowls with rice, salmon bites, cucumber salad and avocado. Drizzle the leftover sauce over the salmon - you will have some sauce leftover. Top salmon with sesame seeds, red pepper flakes and scallions.
Notes
*If your salmon is not wild caught you may need to cook it for up to 5 more minutes.
To cut down on the calories for this recipe just don't use all of the sauce or use less avocado.
Nutrition
Calories: 650kcalCarbohydrates: 54gProtein: 44gFat: 30gSaturated Fat: 4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 11gMonounsaturated Fat: 12gCholesterol: 94mgSodium: 2097mgPotassium: 1172mgFiber: 3gSugar: 9gVitamin A: 115IUVitamin C: 4mgCalcium: 75mgIron: 4mg
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