Chilli, Coconut & Lime Salmon With Roasted Cherry Tomatoes

Once you’ve tried this South Indian seasoning – blitzed coconut, chilli, mint, garlic and lime – you’ll be putting it on absolutely everything: white fish, chicken, paneer, roasted veg... Here it seasons a salmon and cherry tomato traybake, forming a crust for the salmon and a wonderful flavouring for the roasted tomatoes and onions. A nice quick one-dish supper.

Photography: DAVID LOFTUS

/ 27 October 2022 /

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Serves

Total Time

35 Minutes

Ingredients

4 tbsp of desiccated coconut

1 fresh red chilli

Handful of mint leaves, plus extra to serve

2 cloves of garlic

Juice of 2 limes

1 red onion, thinly sliced

250g of vine cherry tomatoes, halved

2 sustainable salmon fillets

2 tbsp of neutral or olive oil

1 tsp of sea salt flakes

Method

Step 1

Pre-heat the oven to 180°C Fan/200°C/Gas 6.

Step 2

Tip the coconut, chilli, mint leaves, garlic, lime juice, 1 tablespoon of the oil and the sea salt into a spice grinder or high-speed blender/Nutribullet and blitz roughly until the chilli looks evenly incorporated through the coconut (you’ll have a reddish, greenish rubble).

Step 3

Mix the sliced onion and cherry tomatoes in a medium roasting tin along with the remaining oil. Make space for the 2 salmon fillets, place them in the tin skin side down, then pat a tablespoon of the coconut-chilli mixture evenly over each fillet. Scatter the remaining mixture over the onions and tomatoes.

Step 4

Transfer to the oven to roast for 20-25 minutes until the salmon is cooked through. Scatter with mint leaves and serve hot, with rice alongside if you wish.

NOTES: You can substitute the salmon for cod, haddock or another firm-fleshed white fish – it’ll take about the same time to cook. To carb it up in the same tin, start by roasting off cubed sweet potato with a little olive oil and salt in your roasting tin for 30 minutes, before continuing with the recipe as above.

Extracted from: India Express – Fresh and Delicious Recipes for Every Day
By Rukmini Iyer. Published by Square Peg £22. Photography by David Loftus

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