Fancy With Few Ingredients!
We came up with dozens of low carb dinner recipes for our newest project: 30 Low Carb Dinners eCookbook – all up to 5 grams of net carbs using only 5 ingredients each! Since we were limited to only 5 ingredients, we realized we had tons of recipe ideas to share outside the project. We now have a line up of some amazing dinners that didn’t quite make the cut for our ecookbook, but definitely deserve to shine.
One pretty exciting and unique one was this almond pesto salmon recipe. Pesto is usually made from basil; it’s pretty much mostly basil and some yummy flavorings (recipe here). The reason we’re calling this an almond pesto is because its main ingredient is almonds and it has the consistency of pesto. Not quite saucy, not quite spready, just sort of pesto.
We decided to use fresh shallots to compliment the garlic and lemon in the almond pesto. Shallots have both onion and garlic qualities about them and can be eaten raw or cooked. These little beauties smelled so good, we threw them right on top!
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Lastly, if you don’t have frisée, this almond pesto salmon recipe will work just as well on a bed of fresh spinach or arugula. Enjoy!
If you enjoyed this recipe and are looking for more salmon based dinners, check out this grilled salmon recipe from Easy and Delish!
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- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 clove garlic
- 1/4 cup almonds
- 1/2 lemon
- 1/2 tsp pink Himalayan salt
- 1/2 tsp parsley
- 2 6 oz. atlantic salmon fillets
- 2 tbsp butter
- 1/2 shallot
- 2 handfuls frisee
- Start by making your almond pesto. In a food processor, pulse olive oil, garlic and almonds until a paste forms. Add in the juice of half a lemon, salt and parsley. Set aside.
- Pat salmon fillets dry and season with salt and pepper. Heat up a lightly oiled pan until very hot and place salmon in skin side down. Depending on the thickness of your salmon, cook for about 4-6 minutes.
- Flip the salmon and add butter to the pan and when melted, baste the salmon for a few minutes. Slice into the thickest part of the salmon - it should still be a little rare inside. Serve salmon over a bed of frisee. Add a dollop of your almond pesto to the top followed by some sliced shallots and slivered almonds.
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I love salmon. What an easy and innovative recipe. Consider it pinned!
We’ve been on a huge seafood kick lately! Let us know if you give this recipe a try 🙂