Best Moroccan Baked Salmon With Preserved Chermoula Recipes

SALMON WITH CHERMOULA SAUCE AND COUSCOUS

Steps:

• Make the chermoula: Combine the cilantro, 1/4 cup parsley leaves, the garlic, 1 teaspoon cumin, 1 teaspoon coriander and the lemon zest and juice in a food processor. Pulse until finely chopped. While the machine is running, slowly drizzle in 1/4 cup olive oil and process until smooth. Season with salt and pepper.
• Meanwhile, heat a saucepan over medium-high heat. Add 1 tablespoon olive oil and the zucchini and cook, stirring, until crisp-tender, 1 minute. Add the harissa, 1 1/4 cups water and a big pinch of salt and bring to a boil. Stir in the couscous, then cover, remove from the heat and wait 5 minutes; fluff with a fork. Stir in the 2 tablespoons chopped parsley; season with salt.
• Season the salmon with the remaining 1 teaspoon each cumin and coriander and a few pinches each of salt and pepper. Heat the remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add the salmon and cook until browned, 3 to 4 minutes per side. Divide among plates and top with the chermoula. Serve with the couscous and lemon wedges.

MOROCCAN BAKED SALMON WITH PRESERVED CHERMOULA

Steps:

• mix the chermoula ingredients with 2 tbsp water in a shallow dish , large enough to hold the salmon in a single layer. Coat the fish with the marinade and rub in well with your fingers.
• Cover and leave to marinade for at least 2 hours.
• Cut 4 pieces of foil large enough to hold the salmon . Place a salmon in each piece of foil and spoon over remaining marinade.
• Top each piece with 2 tsp butter, a pinch of chillies and season with salt and pepper.
• Fold the foil over to form 4 parcels . Place on a baking sheet and allow to sit at room temperature for 15 minutes. in the meantime preheat oven to 220 degrees C.
• Bake in the oven for 20 minutes. Serve with potatoes or maybe cous cous.

MOROCCAN SALMON

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F.
• Combine first 10 ingredients in a large bowl. Add salmon, turning to coat. Cover and let stand 15 minutes. Remove salmon, reserving marinade. Place salmon in a 13x9 inch baking dish coated with cooking spray.
• Cut lemon in half lengthwise; cut 1 lemon half crosswise into 1/8 inch thick slices. Reserve remaining lemon half for another use.
• Add the lemon slices, red and green bell pepper slices, 2 Tbsp of water and tomato slices to marinade; stir gently to coat. Arrange lemon mixture in an even layer over salmon; cover with foil.
• Bake at 400°F oven for 20 minutes or until fish flakes easily when tested with a fork.
• Place 1 fillet on each of 4 plates over rice. Top each serving with about 1/2 cup lemon mixture and drizzle each serving with about 2 1/2 Tbsp pan juices.

PAN SEARED MOROCCAN SALMON

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, combine all ingredients except the salmon. Stir to make a paste.
• Rub the paste to evenly cover the salmon fillets. Place on a plate, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for 5 minutes up to 2 hours.
• Preheat a 10" nonstick pan over medium high heat. Spray with oil and add salmon. Cook 2 minutes per side, then lower heat to medium. Continue cooking until inside is no longer translucent, about 3 minutes per side. Enjoy!

MOROCCAN CHERMOULA MARINADE

Steps:

• Heat a frying pan and dry-fry the cumin and coriander seeds with the cinnamon until aromatic. Grind with a pestle and mortar, or in a spice grinder. Then either put all the ingredients in a blender and whiz them up, or pummel the whole lot in the pestle and mortar, adding one ingredient at a time in the above order. Keeps well, refrigerated for a week.

ROAST SIDE OF SALMON WITH CHERMOULA

Steps:

• Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Line the bottom of a roasting tin that's large enough to fit the salmon in with baking parchment. Brush ½ tbsp oil over the skin and season all over. Place skin-side down in the tin and roast for 15-20 mins until the salmon is just cooked through.
• Meanwhile, toast the coriander and cumin seeds in a dry frying pan. Tip into a blender and add all the remaining ingredients. Blitz to a smooth green sauce, adding enough water to get a drizzling consistency. Season to taste. The chermoula can be made in the morning and kept chilled in the fridge. Put the salmon on a serving platter and drizzle over a little chermoula, with the rest on the side to serve.