• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Green Healthy Cooking logo

  • Recipes
    • All Recipes
    • By Category
      • Breakfast
      • Main Dish
        • Fish and Seafood
        • Meat and Chicken
      • Soups
      • Salads
      • Sides & Sauces
      • Desserts
      • Drinks
      • Snack
    • By Diet
      • Vegan
      • Vegetarian
      • Keto
  • Instant Pot
  • Meal Plans
  • Meal Prep
  • About
    • About Lorena
    • Philosophy
    • Shop
  • Nav Social Menu

    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • YouTube
menu icon
go to homepage
search icon
Homepage link
  • Recipes
  • Instant Pot
  • Meal Prep
  • Meal Plans
  • About
×

Home » Main Dish

Easy & Delicious Salmon Patties

January 16, 2020 By Lorena Grater

Pin Recipe Jump to Recipe

Salmon patties get a nutritious makeover by using amaranth instead of crackers. The unique chili lime flavor will become a favorite.

Salmon Patty in hand

Already high in omega-3 fatty acids, these salmon patties become even healthier by eliminating most of the carbs. Amaranth combined with lots of veggies makes these salmon patties nutritious and packed with flavor.

How do you use canned salmon?

Canned salmon is cooked before packaging. If you choose to use fresh salmon instead, you will need to make sure that it has time to become fully cooked.

To use canned salmon in this recipe:

  1. Drain the liquid
  2. Break it into small pieces with your fingers or a fork.
  3. You can remove the skin if you like but it is edible.
  4. The bones are rich in calcium. They will mash easily with a fork and you will never notice them in the finished salmon patty.

You can use different kinds of seafood for this meal. Tuna patties are a great alternative.

What is amaranth good for?

Many traditional salmon patty recipes call for breadcrumbs or crushed crackers. I like to use puffed amaranth instead.

Amaranth is an ancient grain that is gluten-free and contains all of these nutrients:

  • Fiber
  • Protein
  • Magnesium
  • Iron
  • Antioxidants
  • Other micronutrients

Amaranth seeds are very small and if they are cooked, they become mushy. We can not digest raw amaranth either. To make salmon patties with great texture, take about ten minutes and puff the grains first.

  1. Preheat a pot to medium-high heat
  2. Spread a tablespoon of amaranth seeds evenly on the bottom of the pot.
  3. They should pop almost immediately.
  4. Strain out any seeds that didn’t pop

Here are more details on how to puff amaranth.

Salmond Patties Ingredients in a Bowl

How do you season salmon patties?

Salmon is pretty salty already, so we want to use some seasonings other than salt. I like my salmon patties to have a little kick to them so I use chili powder. Ancho chile powder is one of my favorites. It has a unique smokey flavor with mild to medium heat.

You can increase the heat by using crushed red pepper in addition to the chili powder.

Once you learn how to make salmon patties, you can play with the seasonings to find different combinations you love. Other seasonings that taste great with salmon are:

  • Old Bay
  • Lemon
  • Dill
  • Cajun

Can you freeze salmon patties?

You can freeze salmon patties either before or after cooking.

To freeze them before you fry them, form the patties and put them on a tray in the freezer for an hour. Then pack them into freezer-safe containers or bags. This will prevent them from sticking together in the freezer. They will last for three months in the freezer.

If you freeze them after cooking, allow them to cool completely first.

You can thaw the patties in the refrigerator overnight or cook them directly from frozen.

You can meal prep the salmon patties as well. Form the patties and put them in the refrigerator for up to 24 hours. They actually stay together better if they have been refrigerated for at least an hour before cooking.

Salmon Patty

Salmon Patties

Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Servings: 2 people
Salmon patties get a nutritious makeover by using amaranth instead of crackers. The unique chili lime flavor will become a favorite. 
Print Recipe Pin Recipe

Ingredients

  • 1 can pink salmon (133g drained weight)
  • 1 cup puffed amaranth - how to puff amaranth
  • 1/2 cup finely diced yellow bell pepper
  • 1/4 cup finely chopped red onion
  • 1 cup chopped baby spinach
  • 1-4 Tbsp all-purpose white flour
  • 2 eggs
  • sea salt
  • pepper
  • chili powder - my favorite: ancho chili
  • 1 lime
Prevent your screen from going dark

Instructions

  • Peel or wash veggies and dice.
  • Drain the salmon and break apart with your fingers.
  • Add all ingredients (except lime) to a large bowl starting with only 1 Tbsp flour and mix really really well until homogenous. If the mixture is too sticky, add another Tbsp. It should be easy to form patties without the mixture sticking to your hands (see video for consistency required).
  • Preheat a cast-iron skillet over medium-low heat for at least 10 minutes, then add about 2-3 Tbsp oil and wait another minute for it to be hot.
  • Form patties and fry for 1-2 minutes per side.
  • Serve with salad and drizzle lime juice over the patty.

Nutrition

Calories: 351kcal | Carbohydrates: 34g | Protein: 31g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 234mg | Sodium: 408mg | Potassium: 736mg | Fiber: 5g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 1774IU | Vitamin C: 84mg | Calcium: 349mg | Iron: 5mg
Course Main Course
Cuisine International
Keyword salmon patties
What's your clean eating vibe?Take this fun QUIZZ and find out in 10 seconds!
  • Facebook

Filed Under: Fish and Seafood, Main Dish

« 32+ Healthy Breakfast Ideas
Creamy Cucumber Salad »

You may also like:

  • Top view of Sincronizadas con Pico de Gallo with limes and herbs on a wooden board.Camping Lunch: Sincronizadas con Pico de Gallo
  • Bowl of spaghetti with Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce with Bacon.Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce with Bacon
  • Hands holding a Pita With Sweet Potato Lentil Filling and Out of This World Tahini Herb Sauce, and all the ingredients in bowls.Pita With Sweet Potato Lentil Filling

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Claudine Sirois says

    August 8, 2021 at 10:52 am

    Hi! Lorena, Instead of using pink salmon if I used Wild sockeye salmon would that be alright???

    Reply
    • Lorena Grater says

      August 11, 2021 at 5:16 am

      Yes absolutely! Simply bake or pan-fry your salmon and then flake it and add to the patties.

      Reply
  2. Jeff says

    January 23, 2020 at 2:57 pm

    Is there a good alternative to the puffed amaranth?

    Reply
    • Lorena says

      January 23, 2020 at 3:05 pm

      Puffed quinoa could work but it’s not as yummy as puffed amaranth :) It really takes only 5 minutes to puff your own amaranth. Absolutely worth it :)

      Reply
      • Mary says

        July 14, 2020 at 8:55 pm

        5 stars
        This was great! Serves over baby spinach and arugula. Store didn’t have amaranth so used Arrowhead Mills Brand puffed Miller cereal and it was great!

        Reply
  3. Linda says

    January 21, 2020 at 2:21 pm

    Do you think this would work in an air fryer?

    Reply
    • Lorena says

      January 21, 2020 at 4:09 pm

      Hm. That’s a good question. If you have one of those that have like a drawer I assume yes! I just have the one with the tuning thingy in the middle and there it wouldn’t work.

      Reply
  4. Charlotte says

    January 16, 2020 at 9:36 pm

    These look delicious! Would it be possible to use whole wheat flour or another type of flour instead of white flour?

    Reply
    • Lorena says

      January 17, 2020 at 10:16 am

      Yes! Whole wheat can work (will taste more floury though because whole wheat flour tends to take longer to cook and the patties are fried for only a very short amount of time. Oat flour would probably work better. Flour made from oats because oats can also be eaten raw.

      Reply
  5. gay abarbanell says

    January 16, 2020 at 8:26 pm

    The amount in one serving is not stated???

    Reply
    • Lorena says

      January 17, 2020 at 10:19 am

      Half of all the patties is “one serving”. I can’t state the amount for one patty because everybody will make them different sizes and thicknesses with their own hands and some will get 3 patties out of the dough and others 6 patties. So half of all the dough, so to speak, is calculated as one serving and the nutritional info is for half of the dough.

      Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




Primary Sidebar

Hi! I’m Lorena Grater
and I’m passionate about healthy recipes made with clean ingredients! 
Find out more about me!

FIND OUT ABOUT MY PROVEN METHOD FOR EATING BETTER >>

6-WEEK CLEAN EATING PROGRAM

Ipad with 6-Week Clean Eating Program Thumbnail showing on the screen.

AMAZON DISCLOSURE:

Green Healthy Cooking is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com

Footer

FIND OUT ABOUT MY PROVEN METHOD FOR EATING BETTER >>

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • YouTube

MORE INFORMATION

  • About Lorena

Copyright © 2022 Green Healthy Cooking on the Seasoned Pro Theme