Green Tea Salmon Marinade w/Boiled Carrots

This one is quick, easy, healthy, filling and it only takes an hour to marinade and 20 minutes to cook.

Green Tea Salmon Marinade w/ Boiled Carrots

Green Tea Salmon Marinade with boiled carrots
1-2 Salmon Fillets fresh or thawed
3 green tea bags
bottle of lime extract (you'll only use a few TBSP)
lemon
½ cup pancake syrup
3 sticks of carrots

1. Bring water to a boil making sure you have at least 1 cup’s worth for your marinade. Take three tea bags and place in a mug with 1 cup of boiling water and cover for about 5 minutes. Move hot/warm (not cooled) tea to freezer safe bag and add 1 TSP of lime extract and about a 1/4 zest of a lemon. Place salmon in the bag and let marinade in the fridge for about an hour but no longer than an hour and a half, as you don’t want the proteins in the salmon to break down and turn into mush.

2. Rinse your 3 carrot sticks with water and peel length-wise leaving you with long carrot strips. Bring a pot of water to a boil and salt the water. Add carrot strips and boil for 5-8 minutes but DO NOT over cook the carrots or they will turn to mush. Drain and set aside.

Carrots peeled

3. Remove marinated salmon from the fridge. Heat a non-stick skillet over medium heat. Spray with cooking spray and cook your salmon until the fillet “flakes” easily and is cooked thoroughly.  Discard salmon marinade. Do NOT use when cooking the salmon. In a separate small saucepan bring to medium heat and add 1/2 cup of pancake syrup, 1 tbsp lime juice, and the juice of one half of a lemon. Stir ingredients until the sauce thickens, remove from heat and generously cover cooked salmon with syrup.

4. Plate cooked carrots and set glazed salmon on top. Enjoy.