Quick Dinner: Orange Roasted Salmon

This is a great weeknight meal, because it takes about 20 minutes to make from start to finish. Salmon is a great fish to integrate into your diet since it's full of omega-3 fatty acids which are great for your skin and your heart. This is a spin from a recipe called Barbeque-Roasted Salmon from Robin Miller on Food Network, but I tweaked. I changed some of the ingredients and methods, partially to make it easier, but mostly because I don't really like following directions.

 
Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup orange juice
  
• 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
  
• 2 tablespoons light brown sugar
  
• 2 teaspoons finely grated orange zest
  
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
  
• 1/4 teaspoon of celery salt
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
  
• 1/4 cayenne pepper
• few dashes of hot sauce
  

Easy substitutes: 1/4 chili pepper instead of hot sauce; lime juice instead of lemon; lemon or lime zest instead of orange; and feel free to add in your favorite spice to give it your own special kick!

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. 
2. In a bag, together brown sugar, orange zest, cumin, salt, and cayenne. Using tongs, add salmon fillets to the prepared pan (9x 12 pan). Rub the mixture into the salmon with your hands gently.  
3. Pour the orange juice mixture over the salmon and turn to coat both sides. 
4. Roast for 15 minutes with foil, then broil uncovered for 3 minutes. You should be able to  put a fork easily into the salmon.

We served our salmon with some Lipton's Herb Butter Rice and a quick salad with raspberry vinaigrette, both of which Caroline Christiansen made! After attempting to make food to eat for hours today, we were starving and this totally hit the spot and left us feeling light. There were breadsticks that went with this, but I'll save that for its own post.