My hubby & I just got home from a fabulous week on Kauai's east shore. We ate all our meals based on Yelp reviews! We found things that made our taste buds dance and sing. I'm not normally a fish person, but ahi, ono, and mahi mahi fresh from the Pacific sure made me a happy vacationer.
Our favorite hole-in-the-wall was a very popular establishment called Mermaids Cafe. I had the Ahi Cilantro Wrap... not once, but two times during our stay! So, of course, I had to create something reminiscent of my fabulous experience when I returned to the mainland. All I had on hand was salmon, brown rice, and boring ol' flour tortillas, but that just had to do! So I asked the man of the house to prepare the salmon on the grill and I set to work trying to create a cilantro sauce. I have no idea what they put in their recipe, so I looked up "cilantro pesto" on the WWW, and got an idea for ingredients other than the obvious. Of course I didn't measure, and it's all on taste, but here ya go:
2 cloves of garlic peeled, smashed and chopped
1 bunch of cilantro with the stems cut off
2ish tablespoons of fresh lemon juice
2ish tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
1ish teaspoon of pepper
Put it all in the food processor until it resembles pesto.
I had leftover brown rice in the fridge from yesterday's lunch, so we dumped it (cold) on top of the tortilla along with the cilantro mix and the sliced salmon, and rolled it up like a burrito. The flavors were pretty fantastic and I must say it will be a staple dinner in my house from now on. Sure, it's a "summer in the sun" kind of meal, but hey, it's practically summer all year 'round where I live.
For next time:
I'd like to try a little dash of cayenne in the cilantro mix, and some sliced cucumber in the wrap.
Also, the hubby had a second wrap, and we were out of rice by then, so he used wasabi mayo from TJ's with the salmon and said it was very tasty!
