Course
Dinner
Servings
2
Tips & Tricks:
- 🔪 Skip steps with knife if you completed the prep ideas!
- 🥘 Don't have a steam rack or trivet for your pressure cooker? Use metal cookie cutters, a steamer basket, rings from mason jar lids, or balls of aluminum foil!
- 🥦 Broccoli or green beans can be steamed while the salmon is going in the pressure cooker.
- 🍚 Use rice instead of quinoa if you would rather.
- 🐟 No need to thaw the fish. Just steam in the pressure cooker for 3 minutes longer.
- 🧄 How to roast garlic video I made on TikTok.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup of water
- 2 skin-on salmon filets about 1.5-2 inches thick (3-4 oz each)
- 2 tbsp of butter
- 1 lemon
- 1/2 cup quinoa or jasmine, basmati, or sushi rice
- 1 small head of broccoli
Or
- 8 oz of fresh green beans (about 2 cups)
Garlic-Herb Sauce
- 1 head of garlic or 10 peeled garlic cloves if not roasting the whole head
- 1 large bunch of parsley leaves (about 2 cups)
- 1 cup (packed) mint leaves
- 1 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest (from about 1/2 large lemon)
- 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice (from about 1/2 large lemon)
- 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt
Directions:
- 🔪Garlic-Herb Sauce (can be made 5 days ahead; store in an airtight container and chill, or freeze up to 1 month).
- If making roasted garlic:
- Cut garlic head top off. You can save the small pieces of garlic from the top to use for something else.
- Drizzle the open side of the bottom half of the head with olive oil and a sprinkle of salt.
- Wrap tightly in tinfoil.
- Roast at 400 degrees for 30-40 minutes.
- Let cool to the touch, then squeeze garlic out of the skins.
- Add minced garlic (if not using roasted), parsley, mint, oil, lemon zest and juice, red pepper, and salt to a food processor or blender.
- Blend until a pesto-like sauce forms.
- 🔪 Cook Quinoa or Rice (Can be done up to 3 days ahead)
- Cook quinoa or rice according to package instructions.
- If not serving right away, let it cool and store in the refrigerator.
- Reheat by fluffing up with a fork in a microwave safe bowl, cover with a damp paper towel, and microwave for 2-3 minutes, fluffing more halfway through.
- Prep and Steam Broccoli or Green Beans
- 🔪 Cut broccoli into bite size florets or trim green beans if needed (can be done up to 3 days ahead).
- Steam the broccoli or green beans using any of these easy methods.
- Salmon
- Pour 1 cup of water into your pressure cooker.
- Place a steam rack or trivet inside.
- Arrange the salmon skin side down on the rack.
- Season the salmon with salt and pepper and place 1 tbsp square of butter on each filet + a slice of lemon.
- Secure the lid and turn the steam release valve to sealing. Select the steam function and set the cook time to 3 minutes (6 minutes if your salmon is frozen).
- When the pressure cooker beeps, switch the steam release valve to venting to quick-release the pressure.
- Once fully released, open the lid and carefully transfer the salmon using a flat spatula to a plate.
- Serve
- Serve salmon and broccoli/green beans over rice and drizzle the entire dish with the garlic herb sauce and a squeeze more of lemon if desired.
🚨Leftover Alert
- Use any extra Garlic-Herb Sauce on steak, chicken, eggs, potatoes, roasted vegetables, the possibilities are endless!