- 75g pearl barley
- 150g 0% fat Greek style yogurt
- 100g radishes
- 1 garlic clove
- A handful of dill, leaves only
- 1 lemon
- 2 salmon fillets
- 50g peppery salad mix
- Sea salt
- Freshly ground pepper
- 2 tsp olive oil
- 1.
Fill a medium pan with boiling water. Add a pinch of salt and bring back to the boil, then add the pearl barley. Half-cover the pan and simmer the barley for 20 mins till it's tender but not too soft.
- 2.
While the barley cooks, make the twistziki. Spoon the yogurt into a mixing bowl. Give the radishes a rinse (if your radishes came bunched, trim off the leaves – which are edible, and are all sorts of tasty rinsed and tossed into a salad). Finely slice the radishes and add them to the yogurt. Peel and crush or grate the garlic and scoop into the bowl.
- 3.
Pick the soft feathery leaves off the dill sprigs and finely chop the leaves. Add most of them to the bowl (keep a pinch back for garnishing). Finely grate in the lemon zest and squeeze in the juice from half the lemon. Add a good pinch of salt and pepper and stir to mix. This is your twistziki.
- 4.
Heat your grill to high and line the grill pan with foil (if your grill didn't come with a pan, use a baking tray). Rub 1 tsp olive oil into the skin of each salmon fillet. Season. Place skin-side up on the foil-lined grill pan or baking tray and grill for 8-10 mins or till the skin is crisp and the fish is cooked through and dark pink.
- 5.
Toss the salad leaves with a squeeze of lemon juice and a pinch of salt and pepper.
- 6.
When the barley is cooked, drain it and divide between 2 warm plates. Add the salmon and salad to the plates and serve with the radish twistziki, garnished with the last of the dill.