Salmon Rice

Ingredients:

• 2 tbsp butter
• 1/2 extra small onion (about 1/4 c.) I used red onion
• 1/2 green pepper
• 1/4 c. minced parsley (or 2 tbsp dried)
• 2 c. cooked brown rice
• About 1/2 can of salmon (or 2 cans tuna)
• salt & pepper to taste

 
Directions:

1. Melt butter in cast iron skillet.
2. Finely chop onion and green pepper and add to skillet.
3. Cook until onion is translucent.
4. Add rice and salmon and parsley and heat through.
5. Add salt & pepper and serve

Warm Mustard Sauce for Fish, etc

This sauce would go well with any fish, but I've always used it for salmon loaf.

Ingredients:
1/3 c. prepared mustard
3 tbsp. honey
2 tbsp. olive oil
1 tbsp. vinegar
1 tsp. ground sage
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. ground pepper

Instructions:
Mix all ingredients in small sauce pan and heat over medium/low until hot but not boiling

Salmon Loaf

This is a standby at our house, especially in the winter when we don't have a lot of veggies around. It's pretty simple, although the sauce we always put on it does add some time to the overall prep. But it's a favorite for everyone, even my picky son and picky sister, so I make this often.

I know it doesn't sound appealing, but it's very good and a good (and cheap) way to get salmon into your diet. Of course, you could use fresh or frozen salmon, cooked and flaked. But a can of salmon will run you somewhere around $2-3, so if you are a bit tight on funds (who isn't?), this is a more budget friendly way to get Omega 3s than going out and buying fillets.



Ingredients:

• 1 can pink salmon (14-16 oz), undrained.
• 1/2 c. bread crumbs
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1.5 tbsp. onion, minced
• 2 tsp. parsley
• 1-4 tbsp. minced green pepper
• dash of Worstershire
• dash of Tobasco
• dash of salt
• Warm Mustard Sauce (recipe here)

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Butter a loaf pan
3. Combine all ingredients and mix well (I sometimes use my food processor for this, so I can grind up the bread crumbs, then add onions and green pepper, then remaining ingredients and give it one more spin to mix).
4. Press into loaf pan and bake 35 minutes. 
5. Serve with Mustard Sauce.