Baked Soy-bean Paste Salmon Steak

I love salmon!!! Esp. RAWWWW! They have a distinctive taste unlike other fish. I love fish taste. quite like fishy smell too. :-P

Salmon's supposedly packed with Omega-3 that's really good for cholesterol control. Ever since I found out thru Sie Ong that TESCO sells them for a rather reasonable price [37.90 CZK per 100 grams for salmon with skin, 39.90 CZK per 100 grams for salmon without skin...and sometimes, they even have discounts :-D ], I have been buying them like crazy...at one point, I was eating salmon every week! I could even eat it everyday! But then I read from some websites that says the accumulation of toxic chemicals in salmons esp. in farmed salmons. I have no idea whether the salmons from TESCO is farmed or wild. But that stopped me from going crazy over salmon. Now I buy them maybe once a month.


Salmon's really easy to work with. Because I love the fish taste, I wouldn't want to do anything that covers it up too much. This is one of the recipe I have experimented with.

Ingredients: 

• Salmon; 200grams
• Soy Bean Paste
• Salt
• Chilli Powder
• Instant Mashed Potato Powder XD
• Peas
• Broccoli
• Crab Sticks
• Butter/ Margarine
• Pepper

 Method:

1. Preheat oven to 150 - 200 Celcius
2. Descale the salmon skin
3. Rub on soy bean paste, chilli powder and pepper. 
4. Rub salt on skin
5. Add oil into pan
6. Dump into oven and bake for roughly 10 minutes [*I don't like my salmon overcooked :-P]
7. For the sides; melt a lump of butter/ margarine on pan. Add peas, broccoli and crab sticks to it. 
8. Season with salt and pepper
9. Follow instruction on the box of your instant mashed potatoes :-P

Seasoning with chili powder, pepper, salt, soy bean pasta

All done!

With the side dishes

The foil adds a touch of finesse to the overall look, doesn't it? But it was unintentional. It's just that the salmon skin is stuck to the foil and I didn't want to waste it. So I just transfer it from the baking pan to my plate and scrape them all later. XD

Verdict: 

I am very biased when it comes to salmon dishes. Salmon just taste good as it is ie. without any seasoning ala sashimi. With this recipe, I'd say it gives a flavouring to the salmon without making the salmon lose its original salmon-ness. :-P