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Salmon with Arugala

Posted by PattyLA on Jan 5, 2012 in GAPS, Low Oxalate, Recipe | 4 comments

When I decided on what to make for dinner tonight I had no idea I would make such a masterpiece! I was shocked at how good it was with the first bite. Then I realized that my husband and 7 year old were also making sounds of delight. (My 3 year old is currently anti-salmon so she is forgiven for not loving this one). I realized at once that I had to post this on my blog. I snapped a photo of the food on my plate before I devoured it. Sorry I didn’t get any of the process. It was so simple and so delicious! It is perfectly GAPS compliant and LOD and if you served it to guests they would never know that you are on a special diet.

Salmon with Arugula

2 lbs wildcaught pacific salmon filets

7 oz Arugula (rocket)

5 oz baby portabella mushrooms, sliced

1/2 cup grassfed butter

Celtic Sea Salt to taste

Preheat oven to 400. In a 9×13 pan scatter sliced mushrooms. Cut up the butter into pieces and add about half of the butter with the mushrooms scattered in the bottom of the pan. Fill the pan with the arugula. On top of the arugula place the salmon filets, skin side up. Put the remaining butter pieces around the fish on the arugula. Sprinkle with salt. Place in the oven for about 20 min. This is done when the arugula is fully wilted in the pan. Remove from the oven and serve right away.In my family this served 4 but if you don’t each eat 1/2 a lb of salmon per meal it could serve more.

This would go great with my Cauliflower Rice.

FYI I got all the ingredients for this meal at Trader Joes.

4 Comments

Charlotte / January 6, 2012

I have two big salmon in the freezer my husband caught in the fall. I haven't used them because it would take forever to pick out the bones. However, that salmon you have in the pic looks exactly like my locally caught, humongous salmon in the freezer and out simply it's making me hungry. Maybe tomorrow…

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PattyLA / January 6, 2012

How wonderful to have that salmon to look forward to! We love salmon (well all but the littlest and she used to love it so I suspect she will again some day).

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Aims / January 18, 2012

Oh my goodness, Patty! I threw this together last night because I needed something simple and easy… and because of how easy it was I didn't really expect that much out of it, but it was AMAZING!!!! Every bite was gone and everyone raved! Art has even upped this meal to his new favorite salmon dish (and he loves salmon… so that's saying a lot!)

Thanks for the idea! I was feeling the start of a food rut, and that was JUST what we needed! 😉

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PattyLA / January 19, 2012

So glad everyone loved it! Salmon is on sale tomorrow at Whole Foods and I plan to stock up. It is our favorite fish and oh so good for you!

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