Recipes
Salmon with Roasted Cherry Tomatoes
Ingredients:
4 Serving
Prep: 15 minutes
Cook: about 20 minutes
Tomatoes, thyme and garlic cooked with the salmon create a wonderful combination of flavours. We like to serve it with couscous or rice.
4 cups cherry tomatoes 1 L
2 tsp chopped fresh thyme or dill (or ½ tsp /2 mL dried) 10 mL
3 cloves garlic, minced 3
2 tsp olive or canola oil 10 mL
¼ tsp freshly ground pepper 1 mL
4 salmon fillets (each 100 g) 4
3 tbsp fresh lemon juice 45 mL
Instructions:
1. In bowl, combine tomatoes, thyme, garlic, oil and pepper. Spray baking dish with non-stick cooking spray. Spread tomato mixture in dish. Bake in 400º F (200º C) oven for 10 minutes.
2. Add fish; bake for 10 minutes longer or until fish flakes easily with fork.
3. Serve fish topped with tomato mixture. Drizzle with lemon juice.
Notes:
Nutritional Analysis per Serving (1 fillet and ½ cup (125 mL) tomato mixture): Calories 239, carbohydrate 8g, fiber 2g, protein 21g, total fat 14g, saturated fat 3g, sodium 64mg.
Canada’s Choice per Serving: ½ Carbohydrate, 3 Meat & Alternatives, 1 Fat
Recipe reprinted with permission from Canada’s 250 Essential Diabetes Recipes, Sharon Zeiler, Robert Rose Inc., 2011, http://www.robertrose.ca