Baking fish is so easy, and I fix this healthy dish often in summer, when cherry tomatoes are plentiful. The recipe is dead simple, but so delicious and so good for you too. In fact, it is so simple you can practically cook it from the picture.
There are a myriad of ways to cook up delicious fish, this easy recipe will be on your dinner table again and again. I simply seasoned salmon with salt and pepper, added cherry tomatoes, drizzled olive oil and baked it in the oven. After it was baked i broiled the fish for 2-3 minutes just to crisp up the top and get few charred marks on tomatoes. With just a handful of ingredients something altogether pleasing comes out in a short time.
The tomatoes need about 15 minutes to blister in the oven so the fish should be at least 1″ thick. I personally love wild caught salmon more than farm raised but for this recipe I recommend you choose farmed salmon only. A wild salmon is a leaner fish than farmed. It would be completely overcooked and loose the luscious texture long before the tomatoes would become soft.
Serve it as the main dish for dinner atop mashed potatoes, or rice and vegetables, or with mixed green salad, or shred it to use in kedgeree, and more.
Light, healthy and flavorful.
Ingredients
- 3- 1" thick farmed salmon fillets
- 250 g cherry tomatoes on vine (it really depends how much you want)
- Olive oil
- Salt and black pepper
- Cilantro or any herb for garnish
- 1/2 lemon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Smear oil on a baking dish.
- Arrange salmon and tomatoes in the prepared baking dish.
- Drizzle olive oil, Season with salt and pepper.
- Bake in the middle of the oven for 15 minutes until the tomatoes are soft and fish is fork tender. Broil for couple of minutes.
- Turn on broiler (leave baking dish on middle rack), and cook a few minutes more, or until the top of fish gets slightly crisp and tomatoes are blistered and blackened.
- Remove fish from the oven. Squeeze lemon juice and add more seasoning or herbs if you like.
angiesrecipes
What a mouthwatering meal! I am going to make some salmon for lunch tomorrow too.
Kelly | Foodtasia
Balvinder, this salmon and blistered cherry tomatoes looks amazing! What a wonderful dinner!
Abbe@This is How I Cook
Can’t ever go wrong with salmon. I needed this before my tomatoes froze. Oh well!
sherry
this looks delightful balvinder – i love salmon. it’s so quick and easy to make. i don’t eat tomatoes but there are other things to add so that’s no problem:) cheers sherry
John / Kitchen Riffs
Thanks for the tip to use farmed salmon — I almost always use wild, and your explanation for why farmed is better in this dish make a lot of sense. Anyway, this looks superb — neat recipe. Thanks.
Juliana
Balvinder, this is such a pretty salmon dish especially with the blistered tomatoes…and I totally agree with you regarding overcooked wild caught salmon…thanks for the recipe.
Have a great rest of the week!