Food and Cooking

Pan-fried salmon with broccoli – Recipe

Get dinner on the table in 10 minutes with this simple salmon dish that gets added flavour from zesty lemon. Serve with broccoli to help you on the way to 5 a day.

Ingredients
25g/1oz butter
150g/5½oz salmon fillet, skin on, thickly sliced
½ lemon, juice only, plus lemon wedges to garnish
small handful Tenderstem broccoli
salt and freshly ground black pepper

Method
Melt the butter in a frying pan. Add the salmon skin-side down, season with salt and freshly ground black pepper and squeeze over a little lemon juice. Fry for 2-3 minutes, then turn the salmon over and fry for a further 1-2 minutes, or until cooked through. Squeeze over a little more lemon juice and taste to check the seasoning. Remove from the pan and set aside.

Place the broccoli into a pan of boiling salted water and boil for 3-4 minutes, or until al dente. Drain the broccoli.

To serve, pile the broccoli onto a serving plate and top with the pan-fried salmon. Garnish with lemon wedges.

Source: Cooking365