Salmon Recipes For Picky Eaters

A simple creamy pasta dish made with salmon, frozen peas and cream. A great way to encourage get kids to eat fish and ready in just 15 minutes. The perfect mid-week family meal.

You may have read my last couple of posts (Tortilla Salad Bowl or Eton Mess) in which I talked about becoming an ambassador for FareShare, a UK charity fighting hunger and food waste by redistributing surplus food from the food industry to local charities and communities projects.

FareShare supports over 10, 000 frontline charities and community groups including homeless shelters, children’s breakfast clubs, lunch clubs for older people and domestic violence refuges. At this time of year they also support holiday hunger clubs through their #ActivateAte campaign, supplying food to over 400 holiday projects, providing nutritious meals and snacks to 50, 000 children.

Salmon Recipes For Picky Eaters To Try

As part of my work with FareShare I’m going to be creating some recipes using some of their most commonly redistributed food items. Today’s recipe is using fresh salmon to make a delicious kid-friendly creamy pasta dish.

The first step is to boil up some pasta in a saucepan. I’ve used bowtie pasta but any type of dried pasta shape is fine.

Next it’s time to create the delicious salmon and sauce. In a frying pan cook some onion and garlic in oil or butter and then add salmon chunks, frozen peas and stock cube.

Ginger Glazed Salmon

Then add 100ml of the water that the pasta is cooking in to the pan. This will help create a sauce that will blend perfectly with the pasta and not be watery.

Serve straight away for a delicious and filling meal that the whole family will love. If you have very fussy eaters who don’t like fish, then try cutting it into smaller pieces before serving. When mixed with the cream sauce and pasta they will barely notice that it’s even there!

If you’d like to learn more about FareShare, their work tackling hunger and food waste and also details on how you can get involved with fundraising and volunteering, head on over to theirwebsitenow.This easy oven baked salmon recipe is our favorite! The salmon is cooked in a honey, Dijon and garlic glaze and takes just 10 minutes of prep time. This delicious salmon recipe is perfect for a fancy dinner or weeknight meal!

Teriyaki Salmon Bowls

If you’re looking for an easy salmon recipe that your whole family will love, look no further. This is the recipe that I make when I want an easy, healthy dinner that both the kids and adults will enjoy. My kids request this salmon for dinner all the time!

This baked salmon recipe turns out perfect every time. The fish cooks until it’s perfectly moist and flaky. The salmon is smothered in a simple glaze that’s made with just five pantry ingredients. As the salmon cooks in the honey garlic sauce it becomes so flavorful!

Then try one of my other healthy dinner ideas: juicy baked chicken breasts, the best baked pork chops and crispy baked chicken thighs and easy fish tacos. When you want to cook an easy and healthy dinner in your oven, these recipes are perfect!

Ingredients: Best Salmon Dinner

Making this salmon recipe is easy. I’ll walk you through how to cook salmon, and I’ll give you my tips for making the best tender and flavorful baked salmon.

The exact baking time will depend on the thickness of your salmon fillet. A one pound salmon fillet will take about 12-20 minutes to cook in the oven, at 400 degrees F. Begin checking on your salmon early and then you can always cook it more if it’s not done.

I like to serve a vegetable and a starch with this baked salmon. Some options for the veggie are roasted broccoli, air fryer asparagus, green beans or a spinach salad. Instant Pot mashed potatoes, roasted potatoes, Instant Pot baked potatoes, air fryer baked potatoes or brown rice are also perfect side dishes for salmon.

Easy Oven Baked Salmon Recipe

Serving: 6 ounces salmon , Calories: 347 kcal , Carbohydrates: 10 g , Protein: 35 g , Fat: 18 g , Saturated Fat: 3 g , Polyunsaturated Fat: 5 g , Monounsaturated Fat: 9 g , Cholesterol: 94 mg , Sodium: 549 mg , Potassium: 893 mg , Fiber: 0.3 g , Sugar: 9 g , Vitamin A: 71 IU , Vitamin C: 1 mg , Calcium: 30 mg , Iron: 2 mg

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These salmon patties for kids are a fast and easy mid week meal which everyone seems to love. It’s a great way to use up any leftover mashed potato and each Salmon cake is pretty much a full meal for picky little ones.

Crispy Baked Salmon Nuggets

Do your kids like fish? Two of mine would eat frozen supermarket fish fingers and that was it. Seriously. Try as I might to feed them other mostly ready made fish dinners they refused.

When we started eating Clean one of the things I wanted to do was to introduce some more fish into the kids diets. I’m not talking about anything exotic like a mussel dish or anything (I’m a simple home cook!). Just regular, pretty simple fish recipes.

One of the first fish dinners I made from scratch was these homemade fish fingers and to my absolute amazement they all ate them. And then asked for them again. After that I got creative and started using fish more in my cooking :)

Easy Baked Salmon Recipe (healthy Family Dinner)

I use canned salmon for these mostly, unless I happen to have some fresh salmon I’ve bought on offer, but usually, it’s canned salmon and so that’s what I’ve used in this recipe. This also makes them a good pantry staple for those times you find yourself with some leftover mashed potato.

If I am making these salmon cakes for appetizers or for school lunches, I shape them a little smaller so that I get around 16 small patties.

Fresh salmon is expensive where I am, so this is my version of a budget salmon dish. I used canned salmon to keep within my grocery budget, but if you have fresh salmon, that works well too.

Sticky Baked Salmon Sunshine Bowl

I would make them right up to the point where you fry them until golden brown and then let them cool down and put them into the fridge. When you then want to eat them, put them into a hot oven and finish them off as per the recipe.

Lunchboxes, they’re so easy to make and really lovely cold the next day with a twist of lemon. They also travel well and so are good sitting in a lunchbox until lunchtime.

Salmon Cakes are a fast and easy mid week meal which everyone seems to love. It's a great way to use up any leftover mashed potato and each Salmon cake is pretty much a full meal for picky little ones.Salmon is one of those foods that I am always trying to get my kids to eat. It is a really great source protein for growing bodies, not to mention an excellent way to get essential Omega-3 fatty acids or “healthy fats” into them. It’s no wonder salmon is known as brain food! 

Easy Teriyaki Salmon Recipe

That all being said, it’s not always easy to get our little ones to eat salmon. Chicken nuggets, are a favourite but I’m going to share today my fool-proof recipe that will have the whole family begging you to make these crispy salmon nuggets time and time again!

So we know fish is good for us, but like I said before getting a fussy eater or even a non fussy child to eat a piece of salmon or other fresh fish in it’s natural form can be challenging to say the least!

But by turning them into these little crispy seasoned salmon pieces makes them slightly less daunting to kids who may already be familiar with things like fish fingers or chicken nuggets.

Easy Salmon Recipes

And by baking them in the oven, they make a healthier alternative to cooking them in a frying pan or deep fat fryer.

This recipe is also really easy to make. It literally takes 4-5 minutes to prep the nuggets and just 12 minutes to bake in the oven.

So simple and a complete meal ready in less than 20 minutes! This easy dinner would be perfect for a busy mid-week meal.

Asian Style Baked Salmon

And if your kids are still dubious, then maybe try serving with some sort of dipping sauce or their favorite sauce that they are already familiar with like some of the following options:

You can also get the kids involved in making them. My daughter loves to help me and it’s great to see her get enthusiastic about her food!

These nuggets are great for batch cooking meaning you can have them prepped and ready to go when you need them. The best and easiest way to to do this is to

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