Food for thought

A KETOGENIC DIET RECIPE OF : 

poached salmon with home made mayonnaise, half boiled egg and a side of salad 

Serves 1

Ingredients: 

-200g of Salmon with skin (bones removed)

-two eggs

-Salt 

-olive oil

-mustard

-ice in a bowl water

-1/4 reddish 

-1/4 cucumber 

-Balsamic vinegar 

-Olive oil

-1/4 carrot

-A cup of baby romaine lettuce (purple and green)

Instructions: 

1. Bring a pot of water enough to cover the salmon when salmon is lowered into the pot 

2. Season salmon into boiling water and cook for 6-7 minutes (depending on the thickness of your salmon) or until salmon turn light pink and remove from water and plate 

3. Lower the one egg into the same pot of water and set a timer for 7 minutes 

make sure that the water is not at a rolling boil but a gentle simmer as a rolling boil might crack the shell of the egg before the eggs is cooked

4. Prepare a boil of water with ice, make sure water is ice cold

4. Remove egg from the pot of simmering water and put directly into a the bowl of ice cold water 

5. Cool the egg down to the temperature of the water before pealing the shell off and cutting the half boiled egg to reveal this(as seen in image below) plate egg next to salmon

6. To make homemade mayonnaise, separate egg yolk from egg white, then whisk the egg yolk with a table spoon of mustard. Then add oil olive slowly while whisking. Add olive oil until it becomes a thick vicious mixture. Add salt to taste. 

7. Put a few dollops of mayonnaise over the salmon, 

8. Next, cut carrots into strips, slides the radish to get thin slices and dice cucumbers

9. Prepare salad dressing by putting 2 table spoon of olive oil into a small container and a table spoon of balsamic vinegar. Shake up the two liquids in the container.

10.Toss the romaine baby lettuce with the prepared carrots radish and cucumber and prepared salad dressing

11. Plate salad next to poached salmon glazed with mayonnaise and half boiled eggs. 

Enjoy!