Salmon Recipes

Here we present a varied selection of tasty salmon recipes, a mix of old and new, both traditional and modern, a delicious range of simply cooked, healthy fish dishes to tempt the palate, with readily available ingredients and easy to follow cooking instructions for each recipe. Salmon is a very versatile fish. It goes well with a wide variety of complementary ingredients and can be cooked in many ways. Salmon can be oven baked or grilled, pan-fried or poached, steamed or smoked. Here you will find a variety of salmon recipes, for the most part quick and easy, including both tried and tested traditional dishes, some going back centuries, along with the more modern innovative culinary styles of today's top fish chefs. Salmon, the "King of Fish", is the perfect healthy cooking ingredient. Whether for an informal supper, a quick and nutritious family meal or a tasty lunch, we hope you will find a simple salmon recipe to your taste.

Bon appetit!

Salmon Nutrition

Salmon, i.e. wild salmon, is one of our healthiest foods, rich in vital omega-3 fatty acid content, high in protein and full of many other beneficial vitamins and minerals. A typical salmon recipe portion might contain the following:

Salmon - 4.00 oz (113.4 g) portion - 244.94 calories

DV (%) = percentage of recommended daily intake

Go Wild for Salmon

The fish cook has several varieties of salmon available. The salmon we eat may be farm-raised or wild. Almost all the Atlantic salmon available to buy is farmed. The various species of Pacific salmon (chinook, sockeye, chum, pink and coho) are harvested from natural wild fisheries. As a food, wild salmon has less fat than farm raised salmon, and it is higher in heart healthy omega-3 fats. In most cases, wild salmon has lower concentrations of environmental contaminants such as PCBs and dioxins. Cooking and eating wild salmon is the more natural, healthy, nutritious option but it is becoming harder and harder to find wild-caught salmon sourced from their native habitat.

Farmed salmon now accounts for more than 80% of the world's salmon consumption. The trend toward greatly increased salmon farming has been an ongoing concern to many researchers. In addition to the respective nutritional qualities of wild and farmed salmon in our diet, the practice of salmon farming raises serious ecological concerns regarding its impact on the marine environment and on wild fish.

Based on a combination of sustainability and potential contamination concerns, The George Mateljan Foundation recommend that you choose to eat wild-caught Alaskan salmon above all other forms of salmon currently available in the marketplace. If you cannot find wild-caught Alaskan salmon in your local grocery in fresh or frozen form, they recommend that you select wild-caught Alaskan salmon in canned form as a next best alternative for use in the kitchen. More information about salmon farming can be found in the links below.