Easy Sauted Veggies and Salmon | FoodsOfOurLives.com
As promised in my Monday morning blog post last week, here is one of my favorite lunch recipes.
I talked about getting more vegetables into your breakfast and a quick recipe to do that and this is simply another way of using that same recipe to create a lunch or dinner dish. Although you could certainly eat this for breakfast too!
I like to add a really great healthy fat to this as well, in the form of my homemade mayonnaise. I use avocado oil to make it taste amazing, my husband hasn’t even noticed I have been feeding him homemade mayo for the last couple weeks and he would normally grumble about it.
There is plenty of fat in this meal though so if you don’t prefer mayo, homemade or otherwise, you could certainly skip it or just put guacamole or straight up avocado slices on it.
You can also change up the veggies for your favorites or whatever you have on hand. I felt like these went really well together and provided a wonderful combination of nutrients but really how this happened is I just started pulling stuff out of the fridge and chopping stuff up.
I love going to the grocery store and just grabbing whatever veggies sound good or are in season. I typically walk out of the store with a cart load of fruit, veggies and a little milk and yogurt and lots of butter. I recently sold my dairy goats in anticipation of our cross country move and it still feels really odd to purchase milk, but I guess I better get used to it.
- 3 tablespoons butter
- ¼ cup onion, minced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- ½ bell pepper, diced
- ½ zucchini, diced
- 3-4 large crimini mushrooms, sliced
- 1 large handful spinach
- 1 small filet of salmon
- sea salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- a dollop of homemade mayonnaise
- a squeeze of fresh lime juice
- Heat the butter in a skillet over medium high heat.
- Add all the veggies and sauté until the mushrooms are soft and the onions are translucent.
- Mix in the spinach and toss with the veggies until it wilts, then remove from the pan.
- Add a little more fat, I like duck fat (because it's amazing) but butter, olive oil or avocado oil will work great too.
- Sprinkle the salmon with salt and pepper on both sides and then sear both sides of the filet.
- Place on top of the veggies and sprinkle the lime juice over everything and stick a little mayo on there and you're ready to eat.
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