Recipe: Perfect Sumac Salmon

Sumac Salmon. Sprinkle sumac over the fleshy sides of the salmon (not the skin part). Just before cooking, drizzle or spray a light coating of olive oil on the fish, to keep it from sticking. Pan fry, broil, or grill until done.

Season with salt and pepper and pour in the olive oil and lemon juice. Sprinkle with the Za'atar and Sumac. Setting the oven to broil for the last two. You can have Sumac Salmon using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Sumac Salmon

1. Prepare 1 of side of salmon.
2. You need 1 of lemon, sliced.
3. Prepare 2 tbsp of sumac.
4. It's of Salt & pepper.
5. Prepare of Extra virgin olive oil.
6. You need Bunch of asparagus, ends trimmed.

Rub the salmon pieces on both sides with olive oil and sprinkle generously with Szeged Fish Rub (affiliate link) and Sumac (or whatever seasonings you have). Use your fingers to rub the spices around a little so they stick to the salmon. Add the spinach to your baking dish and place the za'atar-sumac crusted salmon on top. Sumac is an incredible spice that has a citrus flavor profile, perfect for fish and should be part of your Israeli pantry.

Sumac Salmon instructions

1. Pre heat oven to 190°c and place salmon skin side down on baking sheet..
2. Season salmon with salt & pepper, use slightly less if serving to younger children. Next, sprinkle over the sumac, and pat the salmon to make sure it’s fully covered in the seasoning..
3. Place slices of lemon over the salmon and put in the oven for 25 mins..
4. Next, add asparagus to the baking tray, drizzle with olive oil and a pinch of salt and put back on oven. Switch the oven off and leave the baking tray in there for 5 more minutes..
5. Dinner is ready! Serve with crusty bread, new potatoes or a green salad..

We're serving the fillets over a warm salad made with cracked freekeh, an ancient grain with a deliciously nutty taste. Seasoned with fresh mint and lemon juice, a dollop of labneh, favored for its yogurt. The combination of sumac, cumin and yellow mustard seeds creates this super flavorful crust that is the perfect crunch texture contrast to the melt in your mouth salmon. It's so good, and it's so easy. Sautee the kale in the same sumac, cumin, honey mustard rub for a few minutes.

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