Recipe · Dinner
Baked Turmeric Salmon
- Prep
- 10 min
- Cook
- 15 min
- Total
- 25 min
- Serves
- 2
Two anti-inflammatory heavyweights on one plate: salmon's EPA and DHA omega-3s, and a turmeric rub whose curcumin the fish's own fats help carry. Roasted alongside asparagus, it's a weeknight dinner that does more work than almost anything else in this chapter.
Tip: Add the black pepper to the turmeric rub, not just for seasoning — piperine makes curcumin far more absorbable, and it's most effective mixed right in with the spice.
Ingredients
- 2 salmon fillets
- 1 tsp ground turmeric
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 garlic clove, grated
- Pinch of black pepper
- 1 bunch asparagus, trimmed
- 1 lemon, half juiced, half wedged
- Fresh dill, to finish
- Salt
Method
- Heat the oven to 200C. Mix the turmeric, half the oil, garlic, pepper and salt into a paste and rub over the salmon.
- Toss the asparagus with the remaining oil and salt and spread on a lined tray.
- Sit the salmon among the asparagus and roast 13-15 minutes until the fish just flakes.
- Squeeze over the lemon juice and scatter with dill.
- Serve with lemon wedges alongside.