LEMON OLIVE SALMON

This is a quick and easy recipe for flavorful salmon!

INGREDIENTS:

4 oz Salmon filet

1/2 lemon or about 3 Tbsp lemon juice

5 fresh basil leaves or basil flakes to taste

5 Pitted Kalamata Greek Olives

1 Tsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil

PREP/COOK TIME: 20 min

TOTAL CALORIES including green beans: 234 (additional nutrition facts at the end)

1. Turn oven to BROIL so it can pre-heat
2. Place Salmon filet on square of foil, shiny side up. Pour a teaspoon of Extra Virgin olive oil and smear it on top of the filet.
3. Mash up the basil leave in your fingers, breaking them into pieces and place the pieces on the filet.
4. Rip olives in half over the filet so any juices drip on the fish and place them face down on filet

5. Squeeze half a lemon over filet then cut same lemon half into slices and place on filet

6. Wrap foil around filet bringing short sides in first, then bringing the long sides together and rolling down

7. Place foil with fish in it directly on the lowest oven rack for approximately 10 minutes.

8. I paired this with 2/3 cup of steam in the bag green beans which I cooked in the microwave for 5 min while the fish was cooking.

9. Remove foil package from oven and unwrap. If the fish is a light pink color and looks like it will flake apart easily, it is done. If it still has dark pink anywhere you can see, put it back in for a couple more minutes. Below is a picture of it when its done.

ENJOY THIS HEALTHY TASTY DISH BECAUSE YOU ARE GETTING:

234 Calories

24 g Protein

12 g Fat (9 g of good fat!)

  8 g Carbs (2 g fiber, 2 g sugar)

345 mg Sodium

PLUS for your vitamin daily values you are getting:

2% Vitamin A

42% Vitamin C

4% Calcium

4% Iron

AND!!!!! 61.2% Daily Value of Omega-3 Fatty Acids 

(see Fun Facts post about Omega-3 and 6 fatty acids!)