Recipe: Perfect Chili Lime Coconut Salmon

Chili Lime Coconut Salmon.

You can have Chili Lime Coconut Salmon using 12 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Chili Lime Coconut Salmon

1. It's 1 of medium shallot, chopped.
2. You need of I jalapeno pepper, chopped, with half the seeds removed.
3. You need 3 cloves of garlic, chopped.
4. You need 1/4 cup of cilantro, chopped.
5. You need 1 of lime, zested and juiced.
6. You need 1 tbsp of fish sauce.
7. Prepare 1 tbsp of soy sauce.
8. Prepare 1 of thumb-sized nub ginger, peeled and chopped.
9. Prepare 1 tbsp of vegetable oil.
10. It's 2 of fillets centre-cut salmon, deboned and skin-on.
11. It's 1/4 cup of coconut cream.
12. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp of granulated sugar.

Chili Lime Coconut Salmon step by step

1. Put all the ingredients except for the salmon, coconut cream and sugar in a food processor. Add several grinds of black pepper. Blitz until the sauce becomes a slightly chunky puree, like guacamole..
2. Pour the sauce into a shallow dish. Lay the salmon fillets into the sauce, flesh-side down. Cover with cling film and refrigerate for 1 hour..
3. Put a medium non-stick pan on medium heat and add a splash of veg oil. Pull the salmon from the marinade and carefully wipe off as much sauce as you can from the fish. Lay the fillets into the pan, skin-side down and fry for 5 minutes. Flip the fish over and fry 5 minutes more. Remove the salmon and set it aside..
4. Wipe out the pan with some clean paper towel, then put it back on the heat. Add the marinade and coconut cream and bring to a simmer. Let cook for 5 minutes. Stir in the sugar, and salt to taste. Peel the skin off the salmon and serve with the sauce..