This simply delicious recipe is high in protein and rich in healthy fat and a little added fiber. It’s a nutritious gem! I like to serve it over a simple quinoa.
Poppy Seed Crusted Salmon
This simply delicious recipe is high in protein and rich in healthy fat and a little added fiber. It’s a nutritious gem! I like to serve it over a simple quinoa.
Servings 4
Calories 373kcal
Ingredients
- 4 skinned salmon filets* about 1 ½ lbs-wild Alaskan preferably
- 2 egg whites
- 12 TLC Kashi® TLC 7-grain crackers
- 2 Tbsp poppy seeds
- ¼ tsp salt
- fresh ground pepper to taste
- 2 Tbsp olive oil
Instructions
- Rinse and dry the salmon filets and set aside.
- Whisk egg whites with a fork in a wide shallow dish and set aside.
- Place the Kashi crackers in a coffee grinder or mini food processor and grind finely.
- Combine the finely ground Kashi® crackers, poppy seeds, salt and pepper on flat plate and set aside.
- Dip salmon filets, one at a time, first in the egg whites then in the poppy crumbs, making sure to coat both sides well. Repeat with all the filets
- Heat olive oil in a large non stick pan that can hold all 4 filets and sear the filets over medium high heat for 3-4 minutes on each side to brown.
Nutrition
Calories: 373kcal | Carbohydrates: 20g | Protein: 28g | Fat: 21g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 11g | Sugar: 5g
It is challenging for me to get any kind of seafood into my young children’s bodies! They balk that they “don’t like seafood!” before they have even put a bite into their mouths. I persist! 🙂
My 11-year-old son helped on this, grinding the crackers in our mini food processor, and mixing in the other ingredients for the coating. I cut the salmon into bite size pieces, hoping they would resemble popcorn chicken that the kids like (but that isn’t particularly healthy!) It worked! The salmon didn’t look (or much taste) like salmon, a necessity with these picky kids! I served it with wild rice, which they also liked, a surprise, since they usually gravitate towards the useless white stuff. We also had steamed green beans with a drizzle of olive oil, a shake of some Parmesan cheese, and some garlic. The kids ate it all.
It makes me so, so happy to feed my family healthy foods. While I can’t control as much as I would like to what they eat when they are away from me, I can certainly do right by them when we are all seated together around the kitchen table.
Thank you, Catherine, for the great recipe!
Barbara,
I can’t tell you how much I especially appreciate these kinds of stories from wonderful moms and their finicky eaters who end up loving the food that loves them back! I am absolutely delighted to hear that! I don’t know if you noticed but I have a special section, called “Stealth Mom Recipes for Kids!” that you might particularly enjoy!! Keep up the great work! LOVE IT!!! 🙂
https://cuisinicity.com/stealth-mom/
Très facile! la seule chose c’est que je ne pense pas que vous ayiez les mêmes “crackers” chez vous, donc choisissez-bien des crackers avec beaucoup de fibre et pas trop de sel, et bien sûr sans sucre!
me revoilà, je visite votre blog et chaque photo me donne envie d’aller faire un tour mais là….. la traduction me manque , dommage que vous n’ayez pas un logiciel qui traduise en …français!! il y a des termes anglais techniques qui me sont…. étrangers….!!! en tous cas , la recette semble facile à faire et jolie à réalsier ….! merci et( belle journée à vous! Martine de France