Easy Pesto Salmon with 3-Veg Rice

Buttery soft salmon, topped with basil pesto and served with vegetable rice?

Um, yes please!

Prep Time: 3 mins | Cook Time: 20-mins | Serves: 2 | Protein: 33g per serving

If you're after an easy yet delicious fish recipe that's also MEGA healthy, then you're in the right place. Salmon is, in my opinion, one of the best foods you can put in your body and this pesto salmon with sticky vegetable rice is a solid 10/10 - tasty and full of gut boosting ingredients. So let's get to it!

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Easy Pesto Salmon with 3-Veg Rice

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Ingredients

• 2 salmon fillets

• 2tbsp basil pesto

• 140g brown rice, uncooked

• 25g red onion, diced

• 25g mushroom, diced

• 25g peas

• 1 egg

• salt & pepper, to season

• optional: ½ tsp paprika, ½ tsp thyme

• optional: 1 tsp red wine, 1 tsp soy sauce

• optional: basil leaves, to garnish

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Method

1. Pre-heat the oven to 150 degrees.

2. Bring a pan of water to boil, then add the rice and turn down to simmer for 20-minutes.

3. After 5-minutes, begin gently frying the onion, mushrooms and peas in a little olive oil over a low heat, stirring occasionally.

4. Whilst the veg is softening, score the salmon skin and season generously with salt.

5. Bring a frying pan up to a high temperature, add a drizzle of olive oil and sear the salmon (skin-side-down) for 2-3 minutes. Once crisp, spoon the pesto onto the flesh, transfer the salmon onto a baking tray and slide into the pre-heated oven for 8-minutes (skin-side-down).

6. Next, add the paprika, thyme, wine and soy sauce to the pan with the vegetables, if using, and continue stirring occasionally.

7. Once the rice is cooked through, drain it and add it to the pan with the vegetables, stirring to combine.

8. Crack the egg into the pan, then quickly and vigorously stir it through the mixture to create sticky rice. Add a generous crack of salt and pepper, to taste, then keep the pan on the lowest heat until your salmon is ready, stirring occasionally.

9. Remove the salmon from the oven when the 8-minutes is up and slide each fillet onto a serving plate.

10. To present vegetable the rice, spoon the mixture into small ramekins or bowls, compacting it with the flat side of a spoon, then carefully up-end it onto the plates.

11. Garnish the rice with a sprig of basil and serve with a side of greens.

Enjoy!