Spiced Salmon Salad with Candied Walnuts, Caramelised Pears & Honey Mustard Dressing

 

For everyone who follows me on Instagram (@KimrenB) I uploaded this picture about a month ago but forgot to upload the recipe!! So here we go a salad you can have for dinner.. I hope you guys give this a try!

Recipe (Up to 5 People)

Ingredients

For Salmon:
Follow this recipe  for the marinade (ignore "for the smoking" ingredients to the recipe)

For the pears and nuts

• 2 conference pears, washed
• 1/3 cup Soft Brown Sugar
• knob of butter
• handful of nuts (pecans/walnuts)

Dressing

• 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar      
• 2 tablespoons olive oil 
• 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard 
• 2 teaspoons honey 
• pinch black pepper

Salad Base

• Half a bag of spinach leaves, chopped
• 2 bunches of rocket, chopped
• Leftover roasted vegetables, a good plateful
• crumbled Feta (no specific quantity put as much as you would prefer)

Method

1. Salmon: Instead of smoking it (as directed in the link to the recipe above) I made the marinade a day prior and marinated it in an oven proof dish, the salmon was cooked in the oven 180 degrees celcius for around 15 minutes until flaky, whilst it was cooking, I prepared the rest of the salad..
   
2. Cut the pears into 0.5-1cm wedges
   
3. Put the gas on a low-medium temperature and add the butter, when it is melted add the sugar and mix until dissolved
   
4. When it starts bubbling, add the pears and cook for 8-10 minutes
   
5. We are after a crunch on the outside but soft middle- this picture demonstrates what it should look like, when all pear wedges have cooked take out- drain as much of the caramel as you can to leave for the nuts, place pears on plate, put nuts into pan, mix to coat them evenly and toast for 3-5 minutes stirring frequently, when toasted put on the plate with pears.
   
6. Add the ingredients for the dressing and mix

Prepare plate

• Start off with a handful of rocket, left over roasted veggies and spinach
• Add crumbled feta
• Cut the salmon and put ont op of the salad in the centre
• Decorate with pears and nuts (be careful nuts still may be hot)! 
• Drizzle some of the dressing.

That is all that is to it. There will most likely be salmon left over, so the day after I made salmon fishcakes and had the same salad:

Let me know if you try out the recipe! Would love to hear your thoughts and see pictures!

Kimren xo