Cal Smart Caper-Dill Dressed Salmon
with Couscous, Tomatoes and Spinach
Capers add a briny pop to this salmon dish with creamy Dijon-dill sauce! Underneath, there's a bed of lemony couscous to soak up all those delicious flavours.
Calorie Smart is based on a per serving calculation of the recipe's kilocalorie amount.
Produced in a facility that processes milk, sesame, eggs, fish, shellfish, crustaceans, mustard, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybean and sulphites.
Ingredients
250 g
Salmon Fillets, skin-on
(Contains Salmon)
½ cup
Couscous
(Contains Wheat)
113 g
Baby Tomatoes
56 g
Baby Spinach
30 g
Capers
(May contain Sulphites, Tree nuts, Milk)
1 piece
Garlic, cloves
7 g
Dill
1 piece
Lemon
½ tbsp
Dijon Mustard
(Contains Mustard May contain Crustaceans, Egg, Fish, Milk, Sesame, Soy, Sulphites, Wheat)
2 tbsp
Mayonnaise
(Contains Egg, Mustard May contain Sulphites, Wheat, Mustard, Crustaceans, Fish, Milk, Sesame, Soy)
Not included in your delivery
0.13 tsp
Pepper*
4 tsp
Oil*
¼ tsp
Salt*
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Instructions
- Add 2/3 cup (1 1/3 cups) water and 1/8 tsp (1/4 tsp) salt to a medium pot. Cover and bring to a boil over high heat.
- Once boiling, remove the pot from heat, then add couscous. Stir to combine.
- Cover and let stand, 5 min.
- When couscous is tender, fluff with a fork.
- Meanwhile, halve tomatoes.
- Peel, then mince or grate garlic.
- Drain capers, reserving brine, then pat dry with paper towels. Roughly chop one-quarter of the capers.
- Zest lemon. Juice half the lemon, then cut remaining lemon into wedges.
- Roughly chop dill.
- Roughly chop spinach.
- Heat a large non-stick pan over medium-high heat.
- While the pan heats, pat salmon dry with paper towels, then season with salt and pepper.
- When the pan is hot, add 1 tsp (2 tsp) oil, then salmon, skin-side down.
- Pan-fry until skin is crispy, 4-5 min. Flip and cook until golden-brown and cooked through, 2-3 min.**
- Meanwhile, add Dijon, mayo, chopped capers, half the lemon juice, 1 tsp (2 tsp) dill and half the garlic to a small bowl. (NOTE: Reference garlic and dill guides.)
- Season with salt and pepper, then stir to combine.
- Add couscous, tomatoes, spinach, lemon zest, remaining capers, remaining lemon juice, reserved caper brine, 1 tbsp (2 tbsp) oil, remaining garlic and 1 tsp (2 tsp) dill to a large bowl. (NOTE: Reference garlic and dill guides.)
- Season with salt and pepper, then stir to combine.
- Divide couscous between plates.
- Arrange salmon over top, then drizzle with caper-dill sauce.
- Sprinkle any remaining dill over top, if desired.
- Serve lemon wedges alongside.
