These are such a delicious and simple dish that you’ll honestly never want to eat anything else in life. The salsa is easiest made entirely at home while the salmon and tortilla are best prepped at home but cooked over the fire in the woods.
The recipe serves 4 people.
Recipe for tortillas can be found here.
Salsa
This salsa can be made in two versions. Either you make a super simple and good one, or you make the simple and super good one. Below is the recipe for the super good version. If you’d rather make the super simple version, use regular sweet chili sauce from a bottle.
Ingredients:
- 4 tomatoes
- ½ cucumber
- 1 bell pepper
- 1 red onion
- 1 mango
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 chili pepper
- 2 tbsp syrup or honey
- 1 lime
- 2 tbsp water
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- Salt and pepper
- Peanuts and cilantro for serving
Start with the sweet chili sauce by chopping the garlic and chili (use a bit less than the whole chili if you want it less spicy). Put the chopped mixture in a mortar and pound it together until it becomes really fragrant. Mix the chili and garlic with oil, water, and syrup. Season with salt and pepper and possibly some pressed lime. It should taste bold, so don’t be afraid to salt and add a little extra garlic and chili if it doesn’t sing in your mouth.
Now let the sauce sit while you chop the rest. Cut each tomato into 4 pieces and remove the seeds (all the contents), then chop the tomato flesh into small cubes and put in a bowl. Core the cucumber and bell pepper and dice them as well, finely chop the onion and put that in the bowl too. Peel the mango and dice it into slightly larger cubes than the other vegetables. Mix in the mango and sauce in the bowl and stir. Taste and remember that if the salsa will sit for a while before you eat it, it will increase in flavor as it sits.
Salmon
Ingredients:
- 1 lb salmon
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- ½ tbsp ground cumin
- ½ tbsp chili powder
- 1 tsp paprika powder
- Salt and pepper
You only need to skin the salmon and dice it into 1-inch pieces before heading out into the woods. Put the salmon in a resealable bag. Mix together all the marinade ingredients and pour into a jar. 30 minutes before it’s time to throw the salmon on the fire, pour the marinade into the bag with salmon and massage so all pieces are coated in marinade. Pour the bag’s contents onto the cast iron griddle and cook until it gets nice color but stays juicy and delicious inside.
Serve the salmon in a freshly baked tortilla with lots of salsa and sprinkle with crushed peanuts and chopped cilantro.
Perfect for campfire cooking and off-grid adventures! Prep at home, cook over open fire.