Baked Salmon with a Dill Cucumber Sauce and Roasted Balsamic Broccoli

This salmon is quick, flavorful and very healthy.  The sauce doubles as a homemade veggie dip and sauce for the salmon.  NEVER buy dill veggie dip again since this is loaded with flavor and best of all you control the ingredients.  The roasted broccoli is a perfect companion to the flavorful salmon and in under 30 minutes this meal begs to be tried twice.

Baked Salmon with a Dill Cucumber sauce with Roasted Balsamic Broccoli:

Salmon (depending on how many you are serving, one cut per person and try to get the center cut fillet).
1 container on light sour cream ( I get a big one to make extra for dipping raw veggies)
1 seedless cucumber 
1 lemon
1 bundle of fresh dill
Head of broccoli 
Good balsamic vinegar 
Shaved Parmesan

The sauce should be prepared first so it can sit to enhance its flavor.  In a big bowl empty sour cream container, zest 1/2 the lemon and grate (micro-plane) 1/2 of a seedless cucumber.  If bigger pieces of the cucumber fall into the sauce remove them.  Chopped 1 and 1/2 cups of the fresh dill, this will seem like a lot but it adds tons of flavor.  Squeeze half the lemon into the sauce, heavy salt and pepper to taste then put in refrigerator to cool. 

Salt and Pepper salmon and heat a pan nice and hot with olive oil to get a good crust on the salmon before baking.  This should take about 2 minutes on each side.  You want the pan to sizzle.  Don't cook salmon all the way through this will make the fish dry.   Remove salmon put sliced lemon on top of fish and let sit since you will be baking it off with the broccoli.

Cut Broccoli is bigger spears, you want some of the steam.  In a bowl toss with olive oil, balsamic and salt and pepper.  Roast at 425 for about 15 minutes, 5-7 minutes into cooking place salmon along side the broccoli on a cookie sheet. 

Once broccoli is still green but caramelized and the salmon is a light pink remove and start plating.  Put shaved parm on the broccoli and on the salmon but a dollop of the dill cucumber sauce.  

Serve and Enjoy oh and did I mention that this recipe is also cheap.