Spice Up Your Salmon for Summer with Gregg's Freestyle Cooking

Salmon makes the perfect summer meal. Healthy, reasonably priced and versatile, this tasty dish is easily spiced up, requires little preparation and always a big hit with guests.

With over 16 years experience, Gregg’s Freestyle Cooking spokesperson and top chef, Alison Robert, has all the tips and tricks to turn this ideal meal into a tasty, tantalizing treat. Embracing Freestyle Cooking techniques, Alison says it’s all about throwing the rules out the window and learning to trust your own taste buds. You don’t need recipes to create dishes full of flavor, you just need a sense of adventure. Freestyle Cooking is about tasting your food as you cook, and tailoring flavour to your taste buds, taste it and try it again and again until delicious!

Below are some delectable ideas to spice up your salmon. So go on, get inspired, put your own personality into your dish and try something a little different (and really delicious) this summer.

Keep it simple

Roast your salmon fillets with a liberal sprinkling of your favourite seasoning (Gregg’s Dill & Lemon is a popular choice). Serve with steamed new season salad potatoes tossed in olive oil together with Gregg’s Crushed Garlic and fresh asparagus. A gorgeous, classic and nutritionally balanced meal.

On the BBQ

Freestyle your salmon on the BBQ and slather it with Gregg’s delicious BBQ Sauce while it cooks. Garnish with a handful of Gregg’s Sesame Seeds and serve with prepared salads. Salmon can be quite an oily fish, so balance that taste and texture with spicy or citrusy seasonings such as Gregg’s Chilli & Lime Seasoning, or Gregg’s Kaffir Lime & Herb Salt.

Smart Choices

For an alternative to the more expensive fillets, buy salmon tails from a fishmonger instead of fillets – they taste fantastic when roasted with Gregg’s Lemon Pepper! After cooking, flake the flesh off the skin and make some tangy fish cakes, or stir the cooked flakes through a risotto, or Asian style fish soup.
Getting Saucy

Make your own delicious dip for salmon skewers with honey, soy sauce and plenty of Gregg’s Chilli & Lime Seasoning. You can also whip up your own seafood sauce using mayonnaise, Gregg’s Tomato Sauce, a little Gregg’s Cayenne Pepper and lemon juice.
Alternatively, impress your friends with a homemade tartare sauce using mayonnaise, gherkins, capers, Gregg’s Tarragon, lemon juice, Gregg’s Crushed Garlic and Gregg’s Salt and Pepper to taste.

Feeling Peckish?

Whipping up these tasty nibbles takes no time at all and they still have that “wow” factor to them. Using smoked salmon slices (or fish you caught and smoked yourself!), spread some cream cheese onto thin slices of a baguette, give a good shake of Gregg’s Dill & Lemon Seasoning then top with a chunk of fish and garnish with some Gregg’s Dried Chives.

Good Advice: Something your mum would tell you…

If pan frying or BBQ’ing your salmon, always put it in the pan “service side down” first – this is the side that will be showing when you serve it. Cooking it this way means it will get the first and most even heat in the pan, and also the fresh oil or clean pan, so will cook evenly, cleanly and look lovely when served.