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quick salmon tikka with cucumber yogurt (17 minutes)

servings
2

method

I love this dish. If you’re a fan of chicken tikka masala, give this one a go. You might think it odd to use robust spice pastes on fish, but it’s very common in southern India. When buying your fish, ask the fishmonger to scale it for you. You'll be amazed at how quickly these cook.

• Preheat your oven to 110°C/225°F/gas ¼
• Pop your naan breads into the oven to warm through
• Halve, deseed and finely chop your chili
• Peel and halve your cucumber lengthways, then use a spoon to scoop out and discard the seeds
• Roughly chop the cucumber and put most of it into a bowl
• Halve your lemon and squeeze the juice from one half into the bowl
• Add the yoghurt, a pinch of salt and pepper and half the chopped chili
• Pick the coriander leaves and put to one side

• Slice each salmon filet across lengthways into three 1.5cm wide slices
• Spoon the heaped tablespoon of tandoori paste into a small dish, then use a pastry brush or the back of a spoon to smear the tandoori paste all over each piece (don’t dip your pastry brush into the jar!)
• Heat a large frying pan over a high heat
• Once hot, add a lug of olive oil, put the salmon into the pan and cook for about 1½ minutes on each side, until cooked through

• Place a warmed naan bread on each plate
• Top each one with a good dollop of cucumber yogurt and 3 pieces of salmon
• Scatter over a little of the reserved cucumber, chili and coriander leaves and finish with a squeeze of lemon juice

• from Jamie's Ministry of Food

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ingredients

• 2 naan breads
• 1 fresh red chilli
• ½ a cucumber
• 1 lemon
• 4 tablespoons natural yoghurt
• sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
• a few sprigs of fresh coriander
• 2 x 200g salmon fillets, skin on,scaled and bones removed
• 1 heaped tablespoon Patak’s tandoori curry paste
• olive oil

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1. by Christian on Fri 12 Aug 2011 @ 11:26

Excellent! Quick and easy to cook with great results. Just the naan bread, which I obviously had to buy wasn't quite up to scratch. Have to look into either making it myself or finding a better source.

2. by Kat on Tue 10 May 2011 @ 01:43

We ate this dish like a wrap tonight & it was fabulous! We had some of Fortum & Mason Korma sauce in the fridge so used that on the fish instead. It went perfectly with the salmon.

3. by Truffle on Wed 20 Apr 2011 @ 17:47

This sounds fab! I've already got the ingredients for the tray-baked fish and prawn from Jamie's 30 Minute Meals for tonight, otherwise I'd have tried this. Yep, southern Indian fish dishes are well-spiced - all those big sea fish need strong flavours!

4. by Diane on Wed 20 Apr 2011 @ 13:59

Where do I find haan?

5. by Jessjj on Thu 07 Apr 2011 @ 03:10

Recipe is fantastic and easy! I substituted salmon with flounder, because I'm much more into white fish.

6. by salmon on Mon 13 Dec 2010 @ 01:37

Thank you the recipe is excellent , i tried it today and it turned out good and my family enjoyed it

7. by Tara on Fri 12 Mar 2010 @ 01:32

This such a wonderful, quick and simple recipe. The zingy cool flavor of the cucumber salad is a perfect compliment to the rich salmon. A perfect dish for nights when you don't have much time or energy. A must try!

8. by russell chesters on Sat 03 Oct 2009 @ 21:39

Made this tonight wif my partner, loved it but tilla needs to come to the front alittle, but overall excellent!

9. by Amy on Sun 27 Sep 2009 @ 19:25

This was so easy, yet it tasted really, really good. I never had nan bread before.

10. by shaniqua on Thu 24 Sep 2009 @ 19:32

how long do these take in the oven?

11. by Kyle on Tue 14 Jul 2009 @ 19:52

I would really like to know the total of the calorie intake from one serving of this recipe.
It would be very great if there could be for every recipe a Calorie count per plate kind of deal.

12. by holly on Tue 23 Jun 2009 @ 12:13

I dont like fish but tried this out with chicken instead it tastes great and also refering to post below cheaper than salmon.

13. by Ian Hope on Fri 29 May 2009 @ 09:44

I tried it and the kids absolutely loved it. Well done Jamie,simple ,fast and tasty.

14. by Amanda on Fri 08 May 2009 @ 08:31

I made this last night it was delicious. I served it with some spiced couscous. Yum thanks.

15. by cutie fruitie on Wed 11 Mar 2009 @ 22:13

Wicked! Another tasty dish to add to our families growing collection. Quick and easy. I would have never have tried to put salmon and curry together myself, loved it.. We had it with baked and halved red peppers, filled with vegetable couscous and topped with cheese, yummy ; ) Thumbs up once again!

16. by Nat on Tue 10 Mar 2009 @ 23:39

Tried this last night (with half the amount of salmon - salmon is quite expensive in Australia) and it was amazing. A really delicious combination of flavours. I thought the tandoori would overpower the salmon, but not at all. Definitely on my regular dinner list now. Thanks for the video podcast, too!

17. by Tasha on Wed 11 Feb 2009 @ 17:09

I got this dish out of your ministry book and i loved it. So far i have tried this the steak on the ciabatta bread and the vindaloo which has to be my favorite,i think the indian takeaway thinks i have emmigrated. Thanks Jamie.

18. by Duncan on Sat 31 Jan 2009 @ 13:30

Fabulous and genuinely quick. You can also toss the marinated salmon in natural yogurt which gives a thicker less oily coat for a more persian twist. Even my little girls love this...

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