Grilled Wild Salmon Caesar Salad is a wonderfully fresh and healthy main course salad ~ make it right on the stove top in a grill pan and enjoy all year long!
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I’m a huge believer in eating lots of fish. I love it, and it’s just a happy coincidence that it’s so darned healthy. There’s only one drawback — when I buy fresh fish I like to eat it the same day. That means extra schlepping to the store. And really fresh fish can be hard to find. Even here in Los Angeles, there are only a few stores that I will buy from, if I lived anywhere other than along a coast I would probably have to go way out of my way to find really great fresh fish.
In fact ‘fresh’ is a dicey term in the fish industry
Most of the ‘fresh’ fish in your supermarket has been previously frozen and then thawed. Truly fresh fish can only last a few days once it’s been caught, and that’s usually just not long enough to get it from the boats to the stores in pristine condition. Recently I’ve discovered frozen fish as a way to skip the middleman and enjoy some of my favorite dishes whenever the urge strikes.
The trick is to find a good quality source
I used frozen seasoned wild salmon from Morey’s Seafood for my Grilled Wild Salmon Salad. It has great texture, and lots of flavor marinated right in. I trust Morey’s, they’ve been packing healthy smoked and frozen seafood for over 50 years, and they take their commitment to quality, safety, and the environment seriously. The ingredient list on my marinated wild salmon fillets is incredibly short, and completely pronounceable!
Grilled romaine lettuce forms the base of this summery salad. I take one head and halve it lengthwise, leaving the root end intact so everything stays together. I pop it cut side down onto a screaming hot grill that’s been lightly brushed with oil — it only takes a minute or two to get nice grill marks and some smokey flavor. I don’t want it to wilt completely and lose all of its crunch, so I only grill it on one side. It looks so pretty on a salad platter.
Then I top it with halved cherry tomatoes (I always cut my tomatoes, no matter how small, to release the juices and the flavor,) grated Parmesan, some homemade croutons, and the crowning glory, the grilled wild salmon. I drizzle it all with my homemade 30-second Caesar Dressing. You don’t need a lot of ingredients to get a spectacular result as long as each ingredient pulls its weight.
I love a main course salad in the summer, and this is a fantastic addition to my collection. The grilled romaine has a perfectly tender, but not wilted, texture, and it’s an all around fun salad to make and eat. The pre-marinated Morey’s salmon makes it so easy!
Grilled Wild Salmon Salad
Ingredients
- 10 oz package (2 fillets) Morey's Grill Seasoned Wild Salmon, thawed
- 1 head romaine lettuce
- 1 lemon, cut in half
- 8 8 cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
- handful of croutons
- chopped parsley
- fresh cracked black pepper
- oil for brushing the grill pan
- Homemade Caesar Dressing, recipe HERE
Instructions
- Slice the entire head of romaine lettuce in half lengthwise. Leave the root intact so the leaves stay together.
- Heat a grill pan on medium high heat until quite hot. Brush it lightly with oil.
- Grill the thawed salmon fillets for about 2 -3 minutes on each side until the fish is just barely cooked through. Set aside.
- Set the romaine halves onto the hot grill, cut side down. Grill just long enough to get nice grill marks, about a minute or so. Set the lemon halves on the grill as well. Remove the lettuce to a serving platter, cut side UP, along with the lemon halves.
- Scatter the tomatoes, Parmesan, croutons, and parsley over the lettuce. Sprinkle liberally with pepper. Top the lettuce with the salmon fillets.
- Drizzle with the Caesar dressing and serve immediately.
Hi Sue, salmon is my all time favorite seafood, and you have cooked this perfectly. Love that you grilled the romaine.
Where do you find Morey’s frozen grilled seasoned wild salmon? Love your blog.
I love grilled romaine but never thought to add salmon. That’s perfect! But don’t get me started about buying fish from the grocery store. I’m about to return fish for the fourth time this past year because it was bad. I appreciate the recommendation of buying frozen.
Those colors! What a gorgeous salad. I’ve tried a salad with grilled lettuce before and loved it so I know this is delicious!
wow that salmon looks perfectly cooked, Sue. I too love seafood, esp. fish. Used to have FISH every single day when I still lived with my mom. My brother went fishing every weekend (well, he doesn’t like to eat fish though), my mom did all the washing and cooking, and I was responsible to eat all of them.
Thanks Angie – eating all that fresh caught fish sounds wonderful 🙂
This fish looks absolutely wonderful. I’ve always wondered about grilled lettuce so thank you for the wonderful photos and directions. Your meals are always so beautiful and the colors gorgeous!
I think as long as the lettuce is on the dense side, it does well on the grill. I love to grill radicchio, and even red cabbage wedges.
Oh, man. This looks really tasty.
Yum- you cooked that salmon perfectly! This is the kind of dinner I want to eat in the summer!
Living inland, I always buy fish that’s been flash frozen right on the dock or the boat. I probably don’t know any better, but it’s fantastic to me 🙂 Love everything about this salad. Grilled Romaine is super delicious. I never thought it was very pretty, but you’ve made it look beautiful!!!
haha, I was nervous about photographing the lettuce, but it held up pretty well!
This is my perfect grilled meal! That salmon looks delicious and I love the grilled romaine.
Thanks Jennifer- it’s the first time I’ve grilled lettuce, I was a little skeptical, but I love how it turned out – the heat just kind of ‘tenderized’ it.