Marinated Grilled Salmon With Tomato Basil And Goat Cheese Recipes

MARINATED GRILLED SALMON WITH TOMATO, BASIL, AND GOAT CHEESE

Steps:

• Mix first 10 ingredients in bowl.
• Pour marinade into large freezer bag.
• Marinate fish at least 20 minutes with bag sealed at room temperature.
• Thinly slice the tomato and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
• Place fish on hot grill. Add salt and pepper to taste. (Fresh ground is preferred).
• As the fish cooks (3-5 minutes per side), use a brush and mop the marinade onto fish.
• Turn salmon a quarter (90 degrees) after a quarter of the way through cooking. (This will give it nice grill cross hatch marks).
• Flip fish half way though cooking. Add salt and pepper to taste to this side as well.
• Continue to baste the fish with marinade. (Try to use all if possible).
• Turn fish another 90 degrees after 3/4 done cooking.
• Before fish is completely cooked, top it with thinly sliced tomato. Top tomato with fresh basil. Top basil with crumbled goat cheese. Shut the grill for a minute or two before taking fish off. Let rest a few minutes and enjoy!
• Feel free to make the marinade to taste. It should be sweet, and salty, and sour. I did not measure anything out when making this dish. I simply tasted it a few times until it was balanced the way I liked it.

MARINATED GRILLED SALMON

Steps:

• Place marinade in a ziplock bag and mix to combine.
• Add salmon and massage to coat. Marinate for 3 - 24 hours (1 hr minimum).
• Take out of fridge 30 minutes prior to cooking.
• Remove salmon onto plate, allowing excess marinade to drain off.
• Pour remaining marinade into a small saucepan and simmer over medium high for 3 to 5 minutes until syrupy.
• Pour into bowl/jug (some used for basting, some for serving).
• Brush BBQ grills with oil. Then preheat to medium (or medium low for strong BBQ's).
• Drizzle salmon with oil, the place onto the BBQ flesh side down (skin side up).
• Cook for 3 minutes or until golden, then use tongs to carefully turn.
• Brush the flesh with Sauce, then close BBQ lid.
• Cook for 3 - 4 minutes, basting one more time halfway through, or until the internal temperature is 50C/120F(medium rare) or 55C/130F (medium).
• Transfer salmon to plate and serve with remaining Sauce.

SMOKED SALMON, GOAT CHEESE AND MUSTARD CROUTON

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Blend honey and dijon mustards, red onion, capers and dill.
• Arrange bread on baking sheet and lightly brush with olive oil.
• Bake until crisp, about 10 minutes. Cool.
• Spread croutons with goat cheese, then mustard mixture. Top with smoked salmon.
• Garnish with a little more dill.

SMOKED SALMON & GOAT CHEESE CUCUMBER SLICES

Steps:

• Reserve about 25 bits of salmon for garnish.
• In bowl or using a food processor, combine goat cheese, yogurt, remaining salmon, lemon juice and dill; mix with fork or using on/off motion just until combined but not pureed.
• Place spoonful of filling on each cucumber slice.
• Garnish with bit of reserved salmon.

GRILLED SALMON WITH TOMATOES & BASIL

Steps:

• Preheat grill to medium.
• Mash minced garlic and 3/4 t salt in a small bowl to form a paste, stir in oil.
• Check the salmon for pin bones and remove if necessary. Measure out a piece of heavy-duty foil (or use a double layer of regular foil) large enough for the salmon fillet. Coat the foil with cooking spray.
• Place the salmon skin-side down on the foil and spread the garlic mixture over it. Sprinkle with 1/3 C basil. Overlap tomato slices on top and sprinkle with the remaining salt and the pepper.
• Transfer the salmon on the foil to the grill. Grill until the fish flakes easily, 10-12 minutes. Use two large spatulas to slide the salmon from the foil to a serving platter.
• Serve the salmon sprinkled with the remaining 1/4 C basil.