Description
Two homemade sauces are super simple to whip up – healthy BBQ sauce and dairy free Caesar dressing! Served with seared salmon, this meal sized salad is perfect for summertime.
Ingredients
Scale
- 4 salmon filets
- Salt
- Pepper
- Juice of 1 lemon
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 4 heads romaine lettuce, chopped
- 2 cups croutons
Homemade Barbecue Sauce
- ½ cup tomato paste
- 1/3 cup apple sauce
- ½ cup water
- 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 3 tbsp Worcestershire sauce or tamari
- 1 tbsp honey mustard
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- ½ tsp cumin
- ¼ tsp cayenne pepper
- 1 tbsp molasses
- 2 tbsp Pacific Resources International manuka honey
Dairy Free Homemade Caesar Dressing
- ¾ cup cashews, soaked in hot water for 10 minutes up to overnight
- ½ cup water
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
- 1 clove garlic
- 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce or tamari
- 1 tbsp olive oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Season salmon with lemon juice, salt and pepper.
- Heat olive oil in a cast iron skillet on medium heat. Add salmon filets, skin side up, to the skillet. Cook for 3-5 minutes until salmon starts to brown, then move into the oven to finish cooking for 6-10 minutes.
- While salmon is in the oven, prepare barbecue sauce. Combine all ingredients except manuka honey in a medium saucepan on medium heat, stirring until everything is combined. Remove from heat, then stir in manuka honey.
- To prepare the dressing, add all ingredients to a high powered blender or food processor and blend on high until creamy.
- Remove salmon from oven and flip to skin side down. Brush a generous serving of barbecue sauce over each filet.
- Toss chopped romaine with Caesar dressing and distribute evenly into 4 large salad bowls. Top each bowl with croutons and a salmon filet.
Keywords: homemade barbecue sauce, healthy barbecue sauce, salmon, homemade caesar dressing, dairy free caesar dressing