Masala Salmon with Saffron Sauce

caliking

Time to clean out the fridge. Had to cook some salmon fillets, and finish up some other things. The masala rub was left over from the masala turkey for Thanksgiving. The saffron sauce was kinda made up - saffron, fennel seeds, cayenne, white wine, vermouth, butter. 

 

The rice had a sprinkle of nanami togarashi and a few drops of sesame chili oil. SWMBO cooked the ong choy as an Indian veg - its eaten in our part of India too.

The masala rub tasted much better on the fish than it had on the turkey! The ong choy side and the rice worked well as sides, but I need to work on the sauce.

Thanks for looking

theyolksonyou

That's a fine looking hunk o' fish. Ong choy is definitely not native to nothern Georgia, but I'd give it a go!

nolaegghead

I really want to try some ong choy.  Anything the USDA classifies as a "Class A noxious weed" and is a popular vegetable world-wide, is something I want to try.  We've been growing malibar spinach which can grow like kudzu in the south.

I love shishimi seasoning.  Reminds me I haven't made CA rolls in a while....

Looks great cali!

DMW

I had to go look up ong choy. That plated pic looks like it belongs on the cover of Food and Wine.

Canugghead

Nice cook and plating as usual!  Ong choy reminds me of my Mom's ong choy with fresh fish heads soup back home.

henapple

Remember a while back when you took a hiatus from posting awesome pics and cooks....I miss those days.

Brisket_Fanatic

Sounds wonderful!

MrCookingNurse

When I clean out the fridge it doesn't look like that! I'm starving now

blind99

that sure looks fantastic!  the sauce sounds amazing, I'm sure you'll have it nailed down soon.

QKing

I always have a problem cleaning out the freezer

caliking

@nolaegghead - the Houston Press had this article on the stuff a couple of years ago:

http://www.houstonpress.com/2012-09-06/news/cambodian-water-spinich-ong-choy/

We can usually find it at the big supermarkets in Chinatown.

caliking

Canugghead said:

Nice cook and plating as usual!  Ong choy reminds me of my Mom's ong choy with fresh fish heads soup back home.

Yep, we eat a fair bit of those too. Fish head tastes great in curry, with cabbage as a veg, and in lentils.

caliking

@henapple - I hate your face.

blind99 said:

that sure looks fantastic!  the sauce sounds amazing, I'm sure you'll have it nailed down soon.

I hope so! I love pan sauces and such, but don't really know how to make them. This one turned out more on the tangy side than I wanted, but wasn't too bad with the rub on the fish. Oh well, practice makes perfect, I guess.