Marinated Salmon with Sweet Potatoes and Red Pepper Salsa
- Level: Intermediate
- Yield: 4 servings
- Total: 1 hr 42 min
- Prep: 30 min
- Inactive: 2 min
- Cook: 1 hr 10 min
Ingredients
For the marinade:
2 thumb-sized piece of ginger, peeled and finely grated
1 lemon and 2 limes, zested
1 bottle soy sauce
A dash mirin
1 medium salmon fillet, about 2 1/2 pounds (1.1 kilograms), descaled and pinboned with the skin left on
9 sweet potatoes, scrubbed and pierced
Sea salt
For the salsa
1 red pepper, deseeded and finely chopped
2 green chillies, deseeded and finely chopped
1/2 a lemon and 1/2 a lime, juiced
1 small bunch fresh mint, chopped
Directions
- To make the marinade you need to mix together the ginger, lemon and lime zest, soy sauce, and mirin. Pour this into a large plastic sandwich bag, place the salmon fillet into the bag, scrunch it all together and then tie a knot in the top. Place in the refrigerator to chill for 1 1/2 hours
- Preheat the oven to at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C /Gas 5) Place the sweet potatoes on a roasting tray and sprinkle with salt. Bake in the oven for about 1 hour.
- Now make your pepper salsa by mixing your red peppers and chillies with the lemon and lime juice, olive oil, and mint.
- After a couple of hours remove the salmon from the marinade. Get a griddle pan hot then place the salmon skin side down on it for a couple of minutes. Then finish off in the oven OR bake for 10 minutes in the griddle. Serve the salmon with the salsa and the baked potatoes.
- Twice as much olive oil to the juices .