Category: recipe

Salmon Taco Recipe

Accompanying music: GLXY- Agua, a wonderful, energetic DnB track. It feels fresh, just like this meal!

I live in Norway so obvi I eat quite a bit of salmon. This is a simple, quick, delicious recipe for salmon tacos.

Ingredients for one serving

  • 80 – 100 grams sushi grade salmon (don’t ask me what sushi grade means, it’s probably just marketing)
  • 4 CORN tortillas (the small ones, not gigantic flour tortillas)
  • Not soft goat cheese (you could do sheep cheese or whatever, but not soft)
  • Spices: paprika, salt, cumin
  • A delicious, spicy taco sauce (not Old El Paso, something exciting!)
Preferably hot sauce should come with fancy packaging

Preparation

Ultra simple, it should take around 15 mins total!

Pretty much all the ingredients

Add cumin, salt and paprika to both sides of the raw, sushi grade salmon fillet. Turn pan on high heat, wait for it to get hella hot, and add a little butter or oil (though neither is really necessary, the salmon wont stick too bad to your pan, (unless you have shitty pans)).

Salmon ought to sizzle when placed in pan

Put raw, SUSHI GRADE salmon fillet in the pan, and cook until darkened and kinda sizzling, then flip. The outside will be well done, and the inside will be slightly raw, which I vastly prefer to cooked-through salmon.

While salmon is cooking, put some thinly sliced goat cheese on 4 corn tortillas, and microwave them on low to melt the cheese a little. This part is important. Do not melt the cheese by throwing tortillas in the oven, it’s inefficient, takes longer and dries out the tortillas. The resulting tacos will be hard to eat, since the tortillas won’t fold easily, because they’ll be hard, and dry, and they’ll scratch the inside of your mouth.

This is what happens if you use the oven. It’s much worse than it looks. Haven’t touched it since.

Up to you, but I feel dried out tortillas really detract from the eating e x p e r i e n c e. I prefer them nice and soft.

Once salmon is done and cheese is kinda melted, you’re pretty much done. Take a portion of salmon, put it on a tortilla, lightly squash the salmon so it’s more evenly distributed, add some of that delicious, not-old-el-paso taco sauce, and enjoy!

Don’t worry, the framing of the above photo annoys me too

I always eat them with a side of cherry tomato salad, another one of my classic, simple, completely-original recipes. Thanks for reading the post!


Cherry Tomato Salad

Ok, first post! 

This blog is going to have all kinds of stuff on it, it won’t have a consistent theme, so why not start with a simple recipe!

I figured out this combination fairly recently, and I’ve been eating it consistently ever since. It’s a good way to eat your vegetables.

Cherry Tomato Salad

Ingredients:

  • Cherry Tomatoes (not Grape tomatoes or anything like that)
  • Green Onions (not leeks, follow the recipe properly, thank you)
  • Soy Sauce (I don’t like the gluten free one, but whatever)
  • Olive Oil (I shouldn’t have to say this, but EXTRA VIRGIN obviously)

Process:

  1. Chop cherry tomatoes and green onions, throw them in a bowl
  2. Douse with some olive oil
  3. This is the hard part: add not enough soy sauce. I know it sounds weird but soy sauce is super duper salty, and it’s very easy to add too much. So add an amount that you think “Yeah, no way that’s enough”, then mix and taste, and I guarantee it’ll be enough.
  4. Enjoy!!