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What's up Food Tuber's. Okay, so we're gonna do a super simple
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midweek healthy meal. Super beautiful. Pan cooked salmon,
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cous cous, asparagus, courgettes. It's gonna be really quick.
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It's healthy. About 600 calories. We're eating the rainbow.
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We've got two of our five a day. Pretty much this is the stuff that my missus loves
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okay. Firstly, our carb is cous cous. 75 grams per person.
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150. Cover it with some boiling water.
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About a centimeter above where the cous cous sits.
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Basic seasoning goes in, and if you wanted to put a little
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I don't know, mint tea bag in there, you could. Slice of lemon
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you could. Oh my God, a herb in there. You could.
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So that goes in, and also we'll put our plates
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above here as well, and you might even get a warm plate instead a cold plate.
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So that's a good start. 0 effort. 0 work. Our pan here
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is getting quite hot now. Medium-low heat. We've got a lovely
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fish. Two beautiful salmon fillets there. Skin on, but it's been scaled,
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and it's been de-boned.
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It's a lovely oily fish. Omega 3 is really, really good for you.
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So what I wanted to show you was two ways to cook it. Take the salmon fillet like this
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and slice it into little centimeter slices. This is gonna cook
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in about two minutes. So that's proper fast food.
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I'm then going to have a chunk. Score
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the skin, and its gonna let the heat in efficiently. So I'm gonna put salt and pepper
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on both. Go skin side down with the chunk,
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into the pan. A lot of people don't like
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soft fish skin. They pull it off. If you get it crispy
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they want to eat it. If you just put your hand on it for 10 seconds,
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you give full contact to the skin, which means
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full crispiness. You're gonna get like a kinda fish
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crackling. You see the heat cooking the fish.
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Cous cous is on. Fish is on. Lets celebrate some veg.
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Asparagus. A little handful per person.
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Grab the end like this and see how it naturally snaps.
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So that's where the soft succulent asparagus
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goes to more complex woody asparagus, which is gonna be chewy.
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I'm gonna cut the asparagus at an angle, just because I like it.
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Beautiful nutritious veggie. There's our asparagus.
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Add a little olive oil and I'm gonna add the asparagus.
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Let's just turn the fish now.
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Lovely and golden. Look at that. Crispy as you like.
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The asparagus you can just jiggle around. You see it picking up some colour.
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Next up zucchini, or courgette as we call in England. I'm gonna cut it a little bit
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like the asparagus
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at an angle. So this goes in there. The sliced fish
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is gonna cook much quicker. I'm gonna turn this
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salmon, very very different, is gonna take twice the time
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I don't want to over cook this veg. If you keep cooking it, you gonna deplete
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all those lovely
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erm, all the lovely goodness and nutrients in there. But I do want to big up flavour.
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So I'm just gonna take a chili
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remove the stalk and I want to get rid of the seeds.
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Use the tip of your knife just to scrape it out, and
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just finely chop it until you're happy with it.
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So, the salmon is nearly there. The asparagus
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and courgettes are looking good.
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Beautiful. So guys look, the salmon's just come off there.
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These cook in half the time. They look really beautiful.
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Let's just do a quick salsa. Three or four nice juicy tomatoes. Just hack it up.
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If you can get them when they're nice and in season that is half the battle.
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Different colours. Yellows. Basic seasoning. Salt.
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Pepper. Olive oil. Extra virgin if you can.
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Just about a tablespoon. Lemon juice.
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It's gonna work so well with the salmon. Coriander here.
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Finely chop that. This is gonna be tasty.
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I'm just gonna use my hands. That's what's gonna give you
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that kind of incredible salsa. The cous cous here
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has heated my plate up, so I've got two lovely warm plates.
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Can you see how it's swelled up. It's totally fluffy.
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It's not sticky. Really, really, nice. Now what we can do
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is kiss this with that amazing
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salsa. Toss-up. This is truly the kind of thing I'll knock up midweek.
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Start to finish: 10 to 12 minutes. Absolutely.
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You could have this as a salad the next day. It will get better.
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You can have it cold. Lovely asparagus.
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Courgettes. Just gonna whack it on the top. So you've got your three piece of salmon here
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then you've got your salmon steak here. A beautiful crispy skin.
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And then a nice spoon of natural or Greek yogurt.
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Super, super nice. Works really well with cous cous. Beautiful colours.
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Having that little light salsa on the top is so beautiful. Look at that.
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Who said healthy food had to boring? So guys
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that is my beautiful pan-cooked salmon
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with beautiful cous cous, asparagus, courgette.
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