In her Fast Diet Recipe Book, Mimi Spencer shows you how to make three delicious dishes with salmon fillets. Here's the recipe so you can put it to the taste test
The Fast Diet or 5:2 diet as it's well known is quickly becoming a lifestyle choice for many. Involving just two days a week of 'fasting' (eating 600 calories or less), the health benefits and results for those trying to lose weight are putting other diet ideas to shame.
Mimi Spencer is a Fast Diet follower and wrote the book alongside Dr Michael Moseley. Here, in an extract from her new book The Fast Diet Recipe Book (RRP £14.99, Amazon ), she shares her three recipes for a nutritious, low calorie salmon dish.
Broken salmon fillet, with cucumber and dill
Calorie count: 257
1 salmon fillet (100g)
salt and pepper
50g round lettuce, leaves washed and dried
50g cos leaves, washed and dried
50g baby spinach
¼ cucumber, quartered, seeds removed and sliced
For the dressing:
2 tbsps low-fat yoghurt
juice of half a lime
Handful of fresh dill
Season the salmon and steam until opaque. Set aside to cool. Mix the dressing ingredients.
Put leaves and cucumber on a plate and break the warm salmon into pieces on top. Dress and garnish with more dill and lime wedges.
O’Kelly fish
Calorie count: 318
Serves four
400g trimmed green beans, blanched and refreshed
200g broccoli florets, blanched and refreshed
200g asparagus spears, blanched and refreshed
juice of 2 lemons, plus husks
2 tbsps olive oil
1 tsp chilli flakes
Salt and pepper
30g black Greek olives
4 vines of cherry tomatoes, vine included
4 salmon fillets (100g each)
Preheat oven to 200ËšC/400ËšF. Place blanched veggies and seasonings in a large roasting pan, squeezing the juice of 1 lemon over them. Drizzle with olive oil. Scatter in the olives and
place vine tomatoes on top. Lay the fillets, skin side down, as a top layer, and squeeze over the second lemon, throwing in the husks. Oven roast for 20 minutes. The tomatoes and lemon will have made a wonderful juice to spoon over the fish.
Poached, with greens and a tomato-anchovy dressing
Calorie count: 321
½ fennel bulb, thinly sliced
salt and pepper
1 bay leaf
1 salmon fillet (100g)
100g green beans, steamed but still al dente
100g sugar snap peas, also lightly steamed
For the dressing and garnish:
1 ripe tomato, finely chopped
1 anchovy fillet, finely chopped
1 spring onion, finely chopped
1 tbsp lemon juice
2 tsps olive oil
handful of torn basil leaves
Bring a pan of water to the boil, add the fennel, salt and pepper and bay leaf and boil for 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Add the salmon, cover and set aside for 15 minutes. Remove the fish and break into bite-sized chunks. Serve on the steamed beans and sugar snaps, along with a little fennel from the pan. Drizzle with dressing and top with torn basil leaves.