Uni-fy for Ocean Health: Hope in the Water Episode 3, Changing the Menu

Nicole Paggi's stupid-simple dinner: warm rice, a sesame-dressed salad and cubes of raw King Salmon, with a spread of toppings so everyone builds their own bowl. On the table in about 10 minutes.

Crisp tostadas with avocado lime crema, big flakes of hot-smoked trout, cucumber salsa, pomegranate and salsa macha. No cooking, 15 minutes, from @geronimocramos.

Silky King Salmon on a creamy avocado-lime dressing with Fresno chile, green onion and salsa macha. No cooking, 15 minutes, from @valslittlekitchen.

Five kinds of sushi from one pot of rice and one steelhead loin: salmon crudo, spicy salmon gunkan, nigiri, rolls and hand rolls, set out together so everyone builds their own.

The classic French niçoise, made with Seatopia Steelhead in place of canned tuna. Steamed in foil on the grill, laid over potatoes, string beans, jammy eggs and olives, and finished with a Dijon lemon vinaigrette.

King Salmon seared skin down, rested off the heat partway through, then finished in the pan. Snap pea pesto underneath, roasted broccoli alongside. The rest is what lets the skin go crisp while the middle stays silky.

Salmon coated in a lingonberry-Dijon-yogurt sauce that caramelises lightly as it cooks, flaked over loose, craggy potato rösti and finished with quick-pickled cucumber, radish and more of the same sauce spooned over cold. Squeeze the grated potato properly dry — that one step is the difference between crisp strands and a soft pancake. Works in an air fryer or a conventional oven.

Steelhead cut into cubes, tossed with oregano, smoked paprika and garlic powder, and air-fried until the edges go golden — then piled onto warm jasmine rice with arugula, feta, kalamata olives and a green goddess tzatziki that gets its colour and body from a whole avocado blended into the yogurt. Pat the fish properly dry first; that’s the whole trick to the crust. The sauce goes on at the table, not in the basket, so the bites stay crisp.