Tandoori Salmon

This is one of our favourite mid-week meals. Not only is Tandoori Salmon easy and quick to put together, it’s succulent and full of flavour. If you have enough time, prepare this recipe in advance and marinate the salmon for a few hours in the fridge or overnight before cooking. If you’re tight on time however, cooking it straight away will still turn out delicious.

Lemon in Tandoori Salmon

When trialling this recipe, I knew I was forgetting something when preparing the marinade. Checking I had made it ‘correctly’, yep hubby loves to dabble in the kitchen when I’m preparing, he quite smugly alerted me to the absence of lemon juice! I really don’t know how I missed it. So when it came to dinner time, he kindly reminded us why the Tandoori Salmon taste so good…  because ‘daddy remembered the lemon!’ I love lemon in a tandoori dish, it adds tangy-ness to the flavour and helps tenderise the fish.

Whilst all tandoori dishes are usually made in a tandoor, I’ve put the salmon straight into the oven to cook for around 10-15 minutes. I would love to own a tandoor oven, the food would taste amazing, but for now the oven will do. If you prefer, you could sear the salmon in a pan with some hot oil first and then put it in the oven to finish off the cooking process. Either way, it is a quick and healthy meal that requires little effort.

Tandoori Salmon

A tasty and healthy dish to have as an appetiser or a main meal. It’s goes perfectly with a salad, top it with a mint yoghurt or serve with vegetable fried rice.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 12 minutes mins

Total Time 22 minutes mins

Course Appetizer, Main Course

Cuisine Indian

Servings 4 people

Equipment

• 1 Blender
• 1 Shallow Oven Dish

Ingredients

  

• 580 g Salmon (I used skinned fillets)
• 5 g Ginger
• 4 cloves Garlic
• 1/2 small White Onion
• 4 tbsp Plain Yoghurt
• 3 tbsp Tandoori Powder
• 1 tbsp Garam Masala
• 3/4 tsp Salt
• 1/2 tsp Black Pepper
• 2 Green Chillies
• 1/4 Lemon
• 1 small Red Onion (Cut into wedges)

Instructions

 

• Blend the ginger, garlic, green chillies and white onion in a food processor to make a paste.
• Mix the yoghurt, tandoori powder, garam masala, salt and lemon into the paste.
• Cut the salmon into large pieces and coat it with the marinade (marinate overnight for a stronger flavour).
• Cut the red onion into chunks and place with the salmon in an oven dish.;Cook in the oven at 200° or 180° fan assisted oven for 15-17 minutes.

Notes

Useful tips for making Tandoori Salmon

• Marinate the fish for as long as possible, however if you are in a rush, it can be cooked straight away, the flavours will still come through. 

Keyword Salmon Tikka, Tandoori Salmon