Really hearty blackened creamy salmon salad.

I don’t know about you but I have those days where I want to eat something healthyisshh but don’t want to sacrifice too much for it. Well this salad is for those days! This creamy blackened salad is perfect union of flavors and goodness of great ingredients.

Satisfying and colorful!

Spicy, flavorful and meaty.

I always want something creamy with my salmon recipes. Creamy sauce or dressing with juicy salmon is my dream kind of meal. Salmon is not a fish I ate when I was growing up. But man! I loved salmon with my first bite. Perfect fish in my humble opinion. When not over cooked salmon is so juicy and has an addicting fish oil rich flavor. Hence I decided to pair it with a creamy dressing like the one here and soft boiled sweet potatoes with delicious roasted sunflower seeds.

My favorite part of this recipe is that the entire rooms fills up with the aromas of blackened seasoning. I made this for my wife who needs more than just fresh veggies in her salads. She needs a compelling reason like “blackened salmon” to come near any salads! So this recipe is perfect for her. Happy wife, happy life! But I have to admit I usually start eating this salmon from the pan! The smell of spices in the air and perfectly browned salmon are so inviting. Look at this picture!?

Wonderful homemade blackened seasoning turn salmon into a irresistible treat.

The homemade blackened seasoning used here is not overpowering. It is subtly spicy and flavorful. The deep rich colors of freshly made homemade blackening seasoning is perfect. Making this spice blend in a mortar and pestle, takes me back to my childhood days where I used to make spice mixes with my grandmother.

So if you are looking for a great creamy blackened salmon salad which is :

• Crunchy – sweet peppers, onions and roasted sunflower seeds.
• Satisfying combo of hearty carbs and creamy dressing – sweet potatoes and our delicious dressing. For the recipe for the dressing please visit this link. Our own easy mayonnaise based gingery fresh salad dressing!
  

  Easy Addicting Mayonnaise Based Dressing!

• Umami rich olives with artichoke hearts and rich green salad leaves.
  

  Colorful and satisfying!

Then this creamy blackened salmon salad is for you! But of you would like another creamy salad from our site, try this crunchy shrimp avocado salad.

Colors of Shrimp Salad!

Or try our delicious fudgiest brownies ever!

Homemade Brownie Heaven

Please leave a comment if you enjoyed this delicious salad as we did!

Wonderful layers of flavors!

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Creamy Blackened Salmon Salad

A very satisfying aroma rich creamy blackened salmon salad, with a creamy homemade gingery dressing! Crunchy, creamy, hearty, sweet salad with juicy salmon.

Course Main Course

Cuisine American

Keyword aromatic salad, blackened salmon salad, crunchy salad

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time 6 minutes minutes

Total Time 20 minutes minutes

Servings 2

Calories 995kcal

Ingredients

For the blackened seasoning

• 2 Tbsp Paprika
• 2 Tsp Black pepper
• 1 Tsp Thyme
• 1 Tsp Basil
• 1 Tsp Oregano
• 1 Tsp Garlic powder
• 1 Tsp Onion powder
• 1/4 Tsp Cayenne powder

For making the salad

• 2 Handfulls of salad leaves of your choice.
• 2 4oz salmon pieces.
• 2-3 Tbsp Extra virgin olive oil or coconut oil
• 1 large sweet potatoe boiled, peeled, cut into sticks or fingers.
• 4 small sweet pepers cut into sticks or juliennes.
• 1 Tbsp Sunflower seeds (preferrably roasted).
• 1 Tbps Olives (any kind)
• 1/4 Cup Red onion sliced.
• 2 Sliced pickled artchoke hearts.
• 1/2 Tsp Freshly ground black pepper.
• Salt to taste.

Instructions

For the salad dressing:

• We are using our own delicious salad creamy mayonnaise based salad dressing for this recipe! Please refer to this recipe! https://www.delishbuzz.com/easiest-mayonnaise-salad-dressing/

For making blackened seasoning:

• Blend all the herbs and spices together in a regular blender or a mortar pestle. (See notes) You will have plenty of seasoning left. Believe me you will need it. Because you will be making this often! 🙂
  

For making the salmon

• Heat the olive oil in a non-stick pan on medium-high heat. Wash and pat the salmon pieces dry. Then coat the salmon with the blackened seasoning and salt. Pan fry the salmon 3-4 minutes on each side (depending on how thick is your salmon). Remove it from the pan and let the salmon rest, let the juice run through and it will continue to cook. Resulting in a juicier salmon.
  

Assembling the salad

• Mix all rest of the ingredients together. Place your salmon on your salad and pour on the delicious dressing.
  

Notes

       Notes:

1. For the blackened seasoning - It is best to make it fresh and use immediately. Even if the spices are ground, milling it in a mortar and pestle will bring out the aromas and flavors in a hurry. We usually grind the spices with some salt which gives the coarse consistency to bring out all the flavors or just use a blender and give it a pulse.
2. For the salad dressing please visit this recipe .

 

Nutrition Facts

Creamy Blackened Salmon Salad

Amount Per Serving

Calories 995

% Daily Value*

Saturated Fat 6.5g41%

Cholesterol 165mg55%

Sodium 636mg28%

Potassium 2229mg64%

Carbohydrates 80.3g27%

Fiber 27.9g116%

Sugar 10.9g12%

Protein 80.1g160%

Calcium 1560mg156%

Iron 1.1mg6%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Nutrition

Calories: 995kcal | Carbohydrates: 80.3g | Protein: 80.1g | Saturated Fat: 6.5g | Cholesterol: 165mg | Sodium: 636mg | Potassium: 2229mg | Fiber: 27.9g | Sugar: 10.9g | Calcium: 1560mg | Iron: 1.1mg

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Smoked Gouda and smoked paprika really makes this pizza special!

I love pizza and how it brings together people of all ages. It is versatile and easy to prepare, do please the crowd at home easily 🙂 You can make it as healthy as you want and with a recipe like the following one, you can accomplish all these pretty quickly when you are in a hurry.

The best part of this dough is that it is pretty much a “no wait” dough. All you need to do is mix the ingredients, knead it, rest it for 10mins ( while it rests you can prep your toppings ) and bake it! This dough is soft and chewy. I have had good results with this dough for thin crusts pizzas as well. You will love this pizza if you want:

• An easy “not so complicated” quick homemade pizza.
• Deliciously flavored crust which goes well pretty much with any toppings.
• Barbecue chicken pizza turns out to surprisingly delicious with smoked Gouda, oregano, smoked paprika and caramelized peppers. Even my kid who is pretty choosy when it comes to food loves it.
  

  The mighty dough 🙂

I never would have topped barbecue sauce on any pizza. In fact, I was not really a barbecue sauce fan. Everything changed, when I was given a chicken bake by my friend Rosa V who is an avid cook and the goddess of experimenting, pushing boundaries in the kitchen. In her chicken bake, she combined barbecue sauce with jalapenos, sweet peppers, delicious cheese and spices. She took the sweet barbecue sauce to a whole new level. Ever since, I am a obsessed fan. Hence sweet, savory and smokey barbecue chicken pizza was born. While I am sure for purists who think there to be only two kinds of true pizzas – the marinara and the margherita , this pizza might be unacceptable. But in our kitchen this is considered to be “the bomb”!

Final Spectacle

Everything coming together!

Even the picky eater in my family was impressed by this pizza. Hope you have fun making this simple Barbecue Chicken Pizza! Please let me know what you think of this. If you would like to try a delicious dessert pizza, here is a beautiful recipe! Strawberry pizza with dark chocolate and pistachios!.

I want a slice! Now!

Important notes about barbecue chicken pizza:

• This is a quick pizza dough, this is not claiming to be an artisan pizza.
• The resulting dough after you mix the dry ingredients is slightly sticky. At this point, you need to use 1/4 to 1/2 cup of flour to knead it. It is very important to know that kneading for 5min is very necessary for a softer dough. After you knead it properly, the dough won’t be sticky and it will be very easy to spread on a pizza pan.
• For easier kneading and handling a sticky dough, oil your hands and use flour sparingly. Just enough to make the dough cooperate with you. Adding the whole amount of flour ( 1/4cup – 1/2cup) directly in one addition before kneading will result in a very dry pizza. Add flour in small steps and stop adding when the dough comes together. Right when the dough is softer and not very sticky.
• I have no patience whatsoever! But if you are patient enough, you can rise this dough for an hour after kneading and this will result in a crunchier, moist dough. After rising for an hour, punch it down and roll to form the pizza then top it.
  

  Easy Barbeque Chicken Pizza.

  

  My new addiction!

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Easy Homemade Barbeque Chicken Pizza

Easy Barbecue Chicken Pizza explodes with flavors in your mouth. Quick no rise homemade crust with barbecue sauce, sweet peppers and Gouda cheese makes this pizza irresistible.

Course Main Course

Cuisine American, Italian inspired

Keyword barbeque pizza, chicken pizza, easy pizza, homemade pizza

Prep Time 25 minutes minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes minutes

Total Time 40 minutes minutes

Servings 12

Calories 333kcal

Ingredients

For the pizza crust:

• 2 1/2 cup All purpose flour
• 1 Cup Luke warm water.
• 1/2 Tsp Sugar
• 2 1/4 Tsp Instant dry yeast(one packet).
• 2 Tbsp Extra virgin olive oil (or any mild tasting oil).
• 1/2 Tsp Garlic powder(Or more if you like)
• 1/2 Tsp Salt
• 1 Tsp Italian seasoning or at least some oregano and basil for flavor.

For toppings:

• 1 - 1 1/2 Cups Caramalized thinly sliced peppers (See notes). I used yellow,red and orange peppers.
• 4-5 Tenderloins of chicken cooked and cubed (See below).
• 1 Cup Smoked Gouda cheese grated(or more if you like)
• 1/2-1 Cup Mozzarella grated (Do not use grated cheese bought from stores. This has an anticaking agent and will not melt properly. Use block of cheese for best results.)
• 1/2 - 1 Cup Barbecue sauce
• 2-3 Sprigs Chopped green oinions. And more for garnishing.
• 2 Tsp Oregano
• 1/2 Red onion sliced.

For the chicken

• 3 Tsp Smoked paprika
• 2 Tsp Garlic powder
• 2-3 Tbsp Extra virgin olive oil.
• Salt to taste.

Instructions

• Preheat your oven at 425F.
  
• Caramelize peppers on medium high heat in olive oil. Add salt and any seasonings you like to it. I added smoked paprika and garlic to mine.
  
• Season chicken with smoked paprika, chili powder, garlic, and salt. Cook the chicken on medium heat in a frying pan with two table spoons of oil,  4-5mins per side. When it is done, rest the meat for a few minutes for juicier tenderloins. Then cube the chicken for the pizza.
  

To make the crust

• While the chicken and peppers are cooking, in a medium bowl, mix yeast and sugar. Do not add salt at this point.
• Then pour the oil and warm water over the yeast mix. Leave it unstirred for a minute.
• Combine all the dry ingredients and whisk. Then dumb all of the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. Mix it to form a sticky dough.
• Transfer the dough to a floured table top and knead it for five minutes. Use flour and oil on your hands to manage the dough. After five minutes or so you will notice that the dough is softer and elastic.
• Oil your pizza pan with coconut oil (easier to release your pizza after baking) and spread your dough in your preferred shape , thickness. Make sure to leave the edges thicker.
• Poke holes on the pizza dough with a fork to avoid the dough bubbling up while baking. Leave the dough to rest for 10 minutes while you prep your toppings.

Topping the pizza

• Brush barbecue sauce generously on the crust. Arrange caramelized peppers on the crust. Add chopped green onions. Next add chicken, Gouda cheese and finally mozzarella.  Then arrange sliced onion. Adding onions last helped them cook and caramelize a bit and this was tasty! Crush generous amount of oregano between your fingers and sprinkle on the pizza. After you top the cheese, make sure to press the cheese gently on to the other toppings. This helps the cheese to soak in some of the moisture of other toppings. It avoids burning and helps to have perfectly melted cheese.
• Bake the pizza for 15-16mins or until you have slightly golden brown edges. Take the pizza out and garnish it with some green onions or cilantro. Let it cool for couple of minutes.
  
• Pig-out! 🙂 Enjoy your barbecue chicken pizza.
  

Notes

      Notes:

• Cooking time of this pizza is 15mins can be 20mins. But usually this pizza is done at 15mins. The telltale sign is a lightly brown edges.
• Brushing some water or oil on the crust will keep it from drying out.
• We used smoked Gouda but regular Gouda works perfect as well.

Nutrition Facts

Easy Homemade Barbeque Chicken Pizza

Amount Per Serving

Calories 333 Calories from Fat 92

% Daily Value*

Fat 10.2g16%

Saturated Fat 4g25%

Cholesterol 74mg25%

Sodium 511mg22%

Potassium 479mg14%

Carbohydrates 30.7g10%

Fiber 2g8%

Sugar 6g7%

Protein 27.7g55%

Vitamin A 550IU11%

Vitamin C 4.1mg5%

Calcium 100mg10%

Iron 2.7mg15%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Nutrition

Calories: 333kcal | Carbohydrates: 30.7g | Protein: 27.7g | Fat: 10.2g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 74mg | Sodium: 511mg | Potassium: 479mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 6g | Vitamin A: 550IU | Vitamin C: 4.1mg | Calcium: 100mg | Iron: 2.7mg

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