WHO:      Nat Locke from Nova
WINE:     2007 Stella Bella Viognier
WHAT: Teriyaki Salmon with Asian Inspired Avocado Salad

Nat Locke from Nova 93.7′s breakfast show loves wine.  She also loves food – but the wine bit is the part she likes best.  Oh and travelling. She likes that, especially when she gets to taste amazing food from different cultures and of course the wonderful wine!

Here she gives us her very tasty Teriyaki Salmon with Asian Inspired Avocado salad along with some great advice on impressing your guests!  She always washes it down with the sublime 2007 Stella Bella Viognier.

Teriyaki Salmon with Asian Inspired Avocado Salad – serves 4

4 salmon fillets
Teriyaki sauce1 chopped avocado
½ finely chopped red chilli
½ red onion
10 cherry tomatoes cut in half
Handful of Vietnamese mint
Juice of one lime
Fish sauce
Sesame Oil
Handful of roasted, unsalted peanuts

Method

Marinate salmon fillets in a quality teriyaki sauce (you could make it from scratch, but life is way too short for that!)

Throw into a non-stick frypan and cook until teriyaki sauce is a sticky mess and salmon is cooked almost all the way through.

Mix together chopped avocado, finely chopped red chilli, finely chopped red onion, halved cherry tomatoes and a handful of coriander leaves and/or Vietnamese mint.  Squeeze in the juice of a lime (you could also add some lime zest if you’re feeling fruity), stir in a dash of fish sauce and a slightly larger dash of sesame oil.  Chuck in a handful of roasted unsalted peanuts.

Plate up (I’ve always wanted to say that) and if you want to impress the pants off someone, pack the salad into a mould to make a little tower (with some slivers of chilli and a sprig of coriander on top. My how fancy!).

Leave the dishes (especially the sticky frypan) to someone else.

Catch Nat each weekday morning from six on Nova’s Nathan, Nat & Shaun McManus.