Salmon Pie

Today is Gwynnie's salmon day! I was scratching my head, trying to find of something that she never tried before and i can hide vegetables in it. So I came up with salmon pie. It's not hard to make, you can use the ingredients that you have in your fridge.

 

Salmon Pie

150 gr salmon

1 large shitake mushroom, diced

brocolli, cut into florets, as needed

1/2 large potato

1/4 cup milk

1 egg, beaten

grated cheddar cheese as needed.

1. Preheat the oven to 150 C. Prepare and butter two small ramekins (about 7-8 cm in diameter).

2. Bake salmon in the oven for 10-15 minutes. Once it's done, flake it.

3. Soak shitake mushroom, remove the stem and diced into little pieces. 

4. Steam brocolli and potato until both are fully cooked. Once both are cooked, cut the brocolli florets and put in a bowl. Peel and mash or puree the potato, add half of the beaten egg and mix well. Mix the other half of beaten egg with milk. Leave a little bit of egg for the egg wash.

6. Put salmon, mushroom, broccoli florets and little bit of cheese inside the ramekins and pour in milk-egg mixture until barely covering the meat and vegetable. 

7. Top the ramekins with mash potato and brush with beaten egg for egg wash. You can sprinkle some cheese on top of the potato. Bake for 25-30 minutes.

You can use any kind of vegetable with this pie. It doesn't have to be mushroom and broccoli, other vegetables will do :)

Nori-less Salmon Sushi

Happy Chinese New Year!! Today was a very busy day. We had to visit both my relatives and my husband's. Since we have little Gwynnie in tow and keep on moving from one place to another, her meals had to be something simple, light and easy to eat. After so much thought, Sushi came to the rescue. In this salmon version, I used thinly cooked omelet instead of nori sheets. The picture may not look that great since I took it in the car. hehehe...

Nori-less Salmon Sushi

Omelete sheet:
2 eggs, beaten

Filling:
1/2 carrot, grated
2 big shitake mushroom, thinly sliced
15 gr salmon fillet

Rice:
1 cup white rice
1 tbsp mirin
1 tsp sugar

1. For the omelete, pour little bit of the eggs into the pan until it form a thin omelete. Cook throughly and repeat with the rest of the eggs.
2. Mix rice, mirin and sugar, set aside
3. Preheat oven to 180 C and bake salmon for about 10-15 minutes. Cut into little pieces.
4. Steam carrot & mushroom for about 15-20 minutes

Assembly:
1. On a sushi roller, put the omelete sheet and spread some of the rice on top.
2. Put carrot on one corner of the sheet, then put mushroom and salmon on top of the carrot.
3. Roll until it forms a log, cut, and serve.

You can always be creative with the sushi filling by using different kind of meats and vegetables. The possibility is endless!

Salmon Bites

This is a very simple and delicious recipe. I started making bite size pieces for my daughter when she didn't want to eat anything else other than her Gerber's puff. So I figured if I make her food in bite size pieces, she will think it's one of her snacks and eat it. It worked and I never looked back.

Salmon Bites:

150 gr salmon
1 cup flour
1 egg
1 cup panko flour
1/2 cup parmagiano reggiano cheese, finely grated

1. Heat the oven to 175 C
2. Prepare 3 bowls for the flour, egg and panko
3. Mix panko and parmagiano cheese
4. Cubed salmon into bite size pieces
5. Coat the cubes in this order: flour-egg-panko paramgiano
6. Put the bites in a baking tray lined with parchment paper and bake for 15 minutes.