Power couple, Cuisinicity style! Wild salmon + walnuts = highly nutritious, totally delicious! This is such an easy recipe. It definitely passes the test for my “Simply Recipe” collection–it has all of 2 ingredients! You just dredge the salmon with ground walnuts and throw on top of a rack (any simple cooling rack placed on top of a baking sheet will do!) in a hot oven and cook for 20 minutes and you are done! No fishy smell in the house, only the wonderful aroma of baked walnuts, how wonderful is that?!
I like to serve this salmon on top of a bed of my Simply Quinoa or with French lentils and a mixed green salad with lots of local fresh veggies. It is so elegant and absolutely delightful on a beautiful platter for a holiday party, served with a side of my luscious “rich” (of course you know me, it’s just made with plain greek yogurt!) Simply Spinach Dip filled with fresh baby spinach!
PS: Watch my cooking class video on how to make this recipe! It’s so ridiculously easy and quick!
- 2 filets of wild salmon* (little less than 1 lb)
- ½ cup walnuts, coarsely ground
- Pinch of coarse sea salt
- Fresh ground pepper
- Preheat oven 375
- Salt and pepper the salmon.
- Place the ground walnuts on a plate and dredge the top of each slice of salmon with the walnuts. Add any remaining ground walnuts that didnʼt stick on top of each slice.
- Place the salmon skin-side down on a rack (any simple cooling rack will do just fine!) placed on top of a baking sheet and cook for 20 minutes.
- When ready to serve, use a spatula to lift the salmon off the rack (the skin will peel off and stay behind on the rack--perfect!)
Hi Catherine! We made this tonight and it was wonderful! Thank you for the recipe! So simple. I didn’t have a wire rack, so I just placed it on the baking sheet covered with foil and coated it with olive oil. Seemed to work out, phew! Most of the family enjoyed it and even asked for more!
You mentioned that you like to eat it with the spinach dip… do you put it on top or on the side, or just as another side dish sort of thing??
Hi Rebekah,
I am so glad you loved this dish! I don’t use the rack now anymore as I found that putting on a baking sheet with parchment paper works just as well and no need for added oil. The salmon won’t stick, I promise! The spinacj dip, I personally prefer to have as little side dish so that people can choose to add it or not, but it’s really your personal preference. Keep the questions coming, I love that you love my recipes! 🙂
This is an exceptional recipe! I just discovered your site as I am presently reading your husband’s book, “Diease Proof.” Do you have a cookbook of your own? It would be excellent and I would be very interested in it!
Thank you Nora, I am delighted to hear it! I don’t yet have a cookbook of my own as I have just been giving all my recipes for free as a way of paying it forward but so many people have asked me, I am thinking about it!! Thank you for your kind words!
Hi Catherine, I just wanted to let you know I tried the walnut-crusted salmon about a month ago. Really good! Your newsletter reminds me that it’s time to put it back in the lineup 🙂 All the best
Hi Catherine….I was @ the IIN conference on Sunday & very impressed with your family. Your son was adorable..you should be very proud. I also follow your husbands work as I am constantly trying to achieve the marriage of my foodie & nutrition values vs a workaholic husband who thinks pork chops & steak are healthy. It’s been a challenge & I hope to use your recipes soon to achieve very healthy delishous meals. Thank you for this beautiful site.
Kind regards,
Miriam
Hi Miriam! So good to hear from you! Thank you so much for such a lovely comment! I know exactly what you mean (you are so cute, I am still chuckling!!) and I think this may well get even your husband to start loving food that will love him (and your family) back! I am so delighted to have you at the Cuisinicity table! I love having you, a BIG WELCOME!!
Hello, I was watching the IIN conference today live streaming. I live Wilmington NC and I am a graduate of IIN in April 2013.
Thank your for this amazing website! I made the Walnut Crushed Salmon and it was amazing! Never thought about cooking on rack. I bake salmon a lot! I added in the last 5 minutes a drizzle of Vermont Maple Syrup – it was yummy.
My dog Benji enjoyed it also with his sweet potato!
l look forward to sharing your site with my clients and friends. Thank you to your husband also -it was his inspiration that I enrolled in IIN.I signed up after hearing him speak on a webnair in 2012.
Thank you again and to health and happiness, Kristin Brown
I love it Kristin!!! In fact I am making this salmon tonight too. Your kind words make me SO HAPPY!! I will tell my husband too, it’s always so wonderful to hear such positive feedback! Your little Benji is so lucky too!! Did you see my 3 puppies on my “about me-family” page? We love our pets so much, don’t we?!