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Sesame-Crusted Salmon with Butternut Noodles

Sesame Crusted Salmon With Butternut Noodles is a light, healthy dish. Bursting with fresh flavor from sesame, garlic, and ginger, it requires only 7 ingredients, 15 minutes, and one pan. Whole30 compliant, paleo, gluten-free, clean eating.

Course Lunch or Dinner
Cuisine American
Keyword easy dinner, salmon
Total Time 15 minutes
Servings 4 people
Calories 294 kcal

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 3 cloves garlic, sliced
  • 1 tsp minced ginger
  • 2 sliced scallions, white and green parts separated
  • salt
  • 16 oz butternut squash noodles
  • 1 lb salmon cut into 4 fillets, skin on
  • 2 tbsp sesame seeds

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 425 F. In a large cast iron pan, heat the oil over medium heat for a minute or so. Add the garlic, ginger, and white parts of the scallions, and cook for a few minutes until they begin to become fragrant. 

  2. Add the raw butternut noodles to the pan, and toss occasionally until just cooked through but still has some bite, about 4 minutes. Set aside, but don't clean out the pan. 

  3. In a separate dish, sprinkle the top of each salmon fillet (flesh side) with sesame seeds, and gently press the sesame seeds down to stick onto the salmon. 

  4. Place the salmon into the same pan, sesame side down/skin side up, and sear for 2 minutes over medium heat until the seeds just start to brown. Transfer the pan to the oven for 6 minutes (still keeping the sesame side down), until just cooked through. 

  5. Divide the noodles into 4 equal portions, and serve topped with a salmon fillet. Garnish with the green parts of the scallion.