Baked Salmon

Bri and I were at it again cooking up some healthy eats. I could get used to meals like these! Here is our process in cooking baked salmon with sundried tomato aparagus:

Ingredients for salmon:

Fresh Salmon Filet

Half of a Red Onion

2-3 Fresh Basil Leafs

2-3 Fresh Garlic Cloves

6 Tbs. Olive Oil

1 Tbs. Lemon Juice

Salt

Fresh Ground Pepper

Ingredients for Asparagus (not pictured):

Asparagus Spears

Olive Oil

Sundried Tomatos

Preheat the oven to 375. Since the salmon has to marinate, start with those ingredients first. In a large bowl, cover the salmon filet with the chopped onion, basil, and garlic. I threw all three of those ingredients into my food processor to eliminate chopping time. (I'm all about the easy way!) Add the olive oil and lemon juice to the bowl. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.

After you are satisfied with your marinating time, take your salmon smothered goodness out of the bowl and lay it in the middle of a sheet of tin foil.

Wrap the salmon in the tin foil to look like a pocket and place on a cookie sheet. Bake for about 30 minutes. You will know the salmon is done when it flakes off easily with a fork.

In the meantime, boil the tomatoes.

And lay your asparagus on some tin foil just like you did with the salmon. Add the boiled tomatoes and olive oil and wrap up. Put the asparagus in the oven with the salmon.

Here is the cooked asparagus just out of the oven:

Yummy! We paired our delicious salmon filet and asparagus with a green salad. Bri had to have her hummus too!

This was honestly one of the best and most satisfying meals I have had in a long time! I also haven't had any fish (due to those mercury levels and being pregs) in about a year. Usually when I have cooked fish in the past, the house instantly gets infused with a nasty "fishy" stench but this wasn't the case this time! Good food, good company. What more could a girl want?