Grilled Salmon with Pesto Cream
Grilled Salmon with Pesto Cream, ever have one of those days when you’re so busy the day just gets away from you and then it’s dinnertime? Well, today was one of ours, so we stopped at the market to see what we could just toss together for a quick meal and we accidentally came up with a healthy gourmet delight that was low fat, low carb (to make it carb-free just eliminate the rice) diabetic friendly and under $10. WOW!
Patti found some salmon fillets on sale, mixed a quick pesto sauce with a little sour cream and an envelope of pesto seasoning and a box of brown-wild rice she made with broth instead of water. Next was a Caprese salad of sliced mozzarella and tomatoes garnished with some fresh basil dressed with olive oil and garlic wine vinegar (a ¼ cup of each). We may just try this the next time we go tailgating; it’s so quick, easy and delicious.
Patti and I have set one night a week just for us. It’s our date night. We usually put something special on our Louisiana Wood Pellet Grill/Smoker but sometimes we cook inside. We always eat outside on our patio where it is very comfortable with a rainforest theme. Wood burning stove, little lights, candles, lanterns and surround sound. We enjoy a little wine, or strawberry margaritas using frozen strawberries for ice, good food, music and sometimes a dance or two…
Grilled Salmon with Pesto Cream
A Pellet Grill Recipe
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 2-4 minutes per side at 350 degrees (177c)
Grill: Louisiana Wood Pellet Grill
Pellets: Pacific Pellet Gourmet BBQ Pellet Southern Pecan
Ingredients: Grilled Salmon with Pesto Cream
- fresh salmon fillets about 10ozs. each
- Country Bob’s Sauces and Seasonings Seasoning Salt, to taste
- Fresh ground black pepper, to taste
- Pesto Cream
- ½ cup fat free or light sour cream
- 1 envelope pesto mix
- 1-2 teaspoons white wine or fat free milk
Lightly season both sides
Directions: Grilled Salmon with Pesto Cream
Lightly season both sides of salmon with Country Bob’s Seasoning Salt and pepper.
In small bowl, mix sauce ingredients adding liquid until desired consistency. Refrigerate.
Preheat the grill to 350 degrees (174c) put your fish onto the Grill Grates. I did this for 3 1/2 minutes per side. Perfect. I use a Maverick ProTemp Instant Read Thermometer for checking meat temps.
In the Smoke
Grilled Salmon with Pesto Cream
A Pellet Grill Recipe
Note: I get a lot of questions about the kind of pellets you can use with a recipe. Keep in mind that a recipe is just an outline. Some you need to follow closely like when you are making bread, but most you can do anything you can dream, our favorite way to cook. Feel free to mix and match the pellets until you find a combination you really like. Also you are only smoking at temps less than 250 degrees, anything higher is cooking and there will not be much if any smoke so it does not matter what kind of pellet you are using.
Caprese Salad
Grilled Salmon with Pesto Cream
A Pellet Grill Recipe
About Our Recipes
We do our recipes on our patio where we have a lineup of grills, including Louisiana, Green Mountain, Memphis, Royall, Traeger pellet grills, Char-Griller, Saber, Charmglow, Char-Broil, The Big Easy, Pacific Living Pizza Oven, Lodge Sportsman’s, Brinkman and Weber. I call it our “Wall of Grill”. Our grilling styles are healthy and low fat and will fit pelletheads, gas, natural wood and even charcoal purists. Almost any of our recipes can be done on any kind of good BBQ.
The important thing to keep in mind is TIME & TEMPERATURE. You can even do some of them in the oven or crock pot, but, then you lose all the flavors you get from cooking outdoors. But sometimes it does rain.
Remember that a recipe is simply an outline; it is not written in stone. Don’t be afraid to make changes to suit your taste. Take it and run with it….
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Our Cutlery Provided By:
- fresh salmon fillets about 10ozs. each
- Country Bob’s Sauces and Seasonings Seasoning Salt, to taste
- Fresh ground black pepper, to taste
- Pesto Cream
- ½ cup fat free or light sour cream
- 1 envelope pesto mix
- 1-2 teaspoons white wine or fat free milk
- Lightly season both sides of salmon with Country Bob’s Seasoning Salt and pepper.
- In small bowl, mix sauce ingredients adding liquid until desired consistency. Refrigerate.
- Preheat the grill to 350 degrees (174c) put your fish onto the Grill Grates. I did this for 3 1/2 minutes per side. Perfect. I use a Maverick ProTemp Instant Read Thermometer for checking meat temps.
