Recipe Card
Delicious Salmon Coconut Curry: Easy Thai-Inspired Recipe in 30 Minutes
- Prep
- 15 min
- Cook
- 20 min
- Total
- 35 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 458 kcal
- Carbs
- 12.00 g
Ingredients
- 1 poundfresh salmon
- —Salt & pepper (to taste)
- 1 tablespoonolive oil
- 1 tablespoonbutter
- 1/2 mediumonion (chopped)
- 2 clovesgarlic (minced)
- 2 tablespoonsThai red curry paste
- 1/2 teaspoonfish sauce (optional)
- 1 canfull-fat coconut milk (13.5 ounces)
- 1/2 teaspoonbrown sugar
- 1/2 cupmatchstick cut carrots
- 1 heaping cupchopped broccolini
- 1 teaspoonlime juice
- 2 tablespoonstorn/chopped fresh basil
- 2 tablespoonschopped fresh cilantro
Instructions
- 1
Cut the salmon into 4 equal pieces. Pat both sides dry with paper towel and season with salt & pepper.
- 2
Add the oil and butter to a skillet over medium-high heat. Let the pan heat up for a few minutes.
- 3
Cook the salmon, skin-side down, for 5 minutes. Flip it and cook for another 2-3 minutes.
- 4
Take the salmon out of the pan and transfer it to a plate.
- 5
Spoon some of the oil out of the skillet so you have about a tablespoon of it left in there.
- 6
Add the onion to the skillet and sauté for about 3 minutes, then stir in the garlic and curry paste and cook for 1 minute.
- 7
Add in the fish sauce, coconut milk, sugar, carrots, and broccolini. Let it gently bubble for about 5 minutes.
- 8
Stir in the lime juice, then add the fish back to the pan. Let it warm through for a couple of minutes. Season with more salt & pepper as needed.
- 9
Sprinkle with the basil and cilantro and serve immediately.