Earlier this month we discussed in our blog how seafood can help keep you on target for meeting your new year’s goals of eating healthier and including more nutritious foods in your menu. Many of us who are busy parenting and working are looking for fast and easy weeknight meals that are healthy for our families, especially given the promises we made to ourselves on January 1st of the year.
Here are a few suggestions to start you off this month on the right track of eating foods packed with protein along with vitamins and minerals found in seafood. Let’s not forget that heart-healthy fatty acid omega-3 that is found in fish too!
The American Heart Association recommends eating fish or seafood twice a week, but we know it can be difficult to work into a meal plan without great recipes. Try some of these options that your family will love and ask for over and over again.
Honey Garlic Broiled Salmon
If you like a little taste of something sweet with that tangy taste of garlic, this Honey Garlic Broiled Salmon will delight your taste buds. Not only that but you will love that it is heart healthy and can easily be prepared in advance to make your weeknights go smoothly after a long days work or taking care of the children.
This recipe has a limited number of ingredients and takes only ten minutes to cook start to finish. Before you start your prep be sure that you have on hand the following ingredients…
Ingredients for Honey Garlic Salmon
- 1.33 lbs salmon
- 2 minced garlic cloves
- 2 tbsp honey
- 2 tbsp Dijon mustard
- 1 tbsp low sodium soy sauce
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- Salt and pepper (to taste)
Once you have gathered your ingredients and preheated the broiler oven you will want to carefully line a baking sheet with foil to make for easy cleanup later.
With the oven preheating now, you can mix together the garlic, honey, mustard, soy sauce, and olive oil. ( I suggest low-sodium soy sauce to reduce the amount of sodium in your diet.) Take your salmon out of the refrigerator and season it to your liking with salt and pepper, then begin spooning the honey mustard mixture over the salmon. Use as much or as little as you like.
Cook your fillets for 6-8 minutes. Cooking time will depend on the thickness of your salmon and how well done you like it. For medium-rare salmon, cook just 5-6 minutes. For fully cooked salmon, you’ll want to cook for closer to 10 minutes.
This scrumptious recipe came courtesy of Slender Kitchen.
Check back on our blog for more recipes to make it easier to follow through on your resolve to eat nutritious and healthy food this year. We love hearing from our followers on how they incorporated seafood into their healthy lifestyles.
