Quick Salmon Tikka with Cucumber Yogurt

This recipe is taken from Jamie Oliver's "Food Revolution" cook book. It's also available online with a picture here.

This recipe is dead simple, provided you get salmon without scales. Skinless is even easier. We have also taken to leaving out the naan and substituting quinoa or brown rice instead. It could even be eaten along with a side salad or something. One of our favorites.

Ingredients:
2 naan breads (available in the bakery of your grocery store, at least in the city)
1 fresh red chilli (we use 3/4 tablespoon of chili pepper spice paste)
½ a cucumber (we double this to 1 cucumber)
1 lemon
4 tablespoons natural yogurt
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
a few sprigs of fresh cilantro
2 x 200g salmon fillets, skin on,scaled and bones removed
1 heaped tablespoon Patak’s tandoori curry paste
olive oil

Directions:
• Preheat your oven to 110°C/225°F/gas ¼
• Pop your naan breads into the oven to warm through
• Halve, deseed and finely chop your chilli
• Peel and halve your cucumber lengthwise, then use a spoon to scoop out and discard the seeds
• Roughly chop the cucumber and put most of it into a bowl
• Halve your lemon and squeeze the juice from one half into the bowl
• Add the yoghurt, a pinch of salt and pepper and half the chopped chilli
• Pick the coriander leaves and put to one side

• Slice each salmon fillet across lengthwise into three 1.5cm wide slices
• Spoon the heaped tablespoon of tandoori paste into a small dish, then use a pastry brush or the back of a spoon to smear the tandoori paste all over each piece (don’t dip your pastry brush into the jar!)
• Heat a large frying pan over a high heat
• Once hot, add a lug of olive oil, put the salmon into the pan and cook for about 1½ minutes on each side, until cooked through

• Place a warmed naan bread on each plate
• Top each one with a good dollop of cucumber yoghurt and 3 pieces of salmon
• Scatter over a little of the reserved cucumber, chilli and coriander leaves and finish with a squeeze of lemon juice