Grilled salmon and zucchini with a feta dressing

Delicious grilled salmon and zucchini slices from the BBQ flavored and served with a salty feta dressing. An easy and healthy recipe.

Here in the South of Holland, we still got a vacation. Just one week, but we’ve got such beautiful weather so it’s great. And the weather forecast for the coming week is also very nice. So it’s time for yet another vacation recipe. This time nothing with a skewer, but a real nice salmon fillet.

In the South of Europe, fish is often very fresh and easy to buy. For the Mediterranean effect, we serve this with a feta dressing. And it’s served with grilled zucchini which we also covered with the same feta dressing.

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• 📖 Variations and substitutes
• 💭 Top tips
• 🔪  Preparations
• Budget-friendly
• ⏲️ What to do with left overs?
• 🥘  Other delicious recipes
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📖 Variations and substitutes

This recipe is really delicious, but if you want to adjust the recipe to your taste or replace an ingredient with something from your pantry, then I have some nice suggestions here.

• The real Feta cheese is of course the tastiest. Feta cheese comes from Greece and may be made from raw milk. So be careful when you are pregnant (always read the labels carefully). If you cannot get a real Feta cheese, you can buy white cheese cubes in the supermarket. Less strong in taste, but still very delicious.
• You can also replace the lemon with lime or orange.
• If you don't have or don't like zucchini, try using eggplant.
• You can also use cod fillets instead of salmon. A firm whitefish that does well on the grill.

💭 Top tips

• When in this recipe lemon zest is used (or any sort of zest), use an organic sort. Grate only the yellow skin of the lemon. The white that is underneath is very bitter.
• Cut the zucchini not too thin so it keeps its firmness and to get enough flavor.
• By allowing meat and fish to rest for a while after baking or grilling, fewer juices will be released after cutting, which remain in your meat or fish. This gives so much more flavor.

🔪  Preparations

A good preparation makes the job a lot easier. And when you're in a hurry this steps can be done in advance.

• The feta dressing can be made up to two days in advance. Store it in the refrigerator in an airtight container until use.

Budget-friendly

• Instead of feta cheese, use white cheese. The taste of the cheese is very close.
• Grow your own herbs. Here are tips on how to grow them yourself (and if you have leftovers what you can do with them)
• serve this recipe with bread. A nice budget friendly side dish and you can combine the feta dressing with the bread.

⏲️ What to do with left overs?

Of course it can always happen that you have leftovers or that you don't use all your ingredients. Below are tips on how to use them.

• Do you have any fresh herbs left? In this blog you will find all kinds of tips on what to do with leftovers or how to store them.
• Only using the zest of the lemon is of course a shame. But what else can you do with it? Now this for example gin lemon drumsticks from the BBQ, lemon and mint ice cream popsicles or a delicious pudding recipe with lemon, cream, and coconut (and only 3 ingredients)

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