A classic Hawaiian side dish made from salted salmon, tomatoes, onions, and green onions.
Lomi Lomi Salmon
A must-have for any proper Hawaiian meal or luau. Lomi Lomi Salmon is a Hawaiian side dish made from salted salmon, tomatoes, onions, and green onions.
Ingredients
- 1/2 pound salted salmon (if you can’t find salted salmon, make your own!)
- 2 medium tomatoes
- 1 large sweet onion
- 6 stalks green onion
Directions
Lomi lomi:
- Dice all the ingredients (salted salmon, tomatoes, onions, and green onions) separately. You want small, bite-sized pieces, think pencil eraser size.
- Put it all together into a big bowl.
- Lomi aka gently knead the ingredients together until well mixed. There is no need to salt or season because the salmon is already salted.
- Eat and enjoy!
Salted salmon: 1. Get a nice half-pound salmon filet. Clean and pat dry. 2. Cover both sides of the salmon with Hawaiian sea salt. 3. Put the salted salmon in a shallow bowl and wrap with plastic. 4. Refrigerate for three days (you’re curing the salmon). And tadah, salted salmon. 5. Before using it to make lomi lomi salmon: wash the salmon and soak in a bowl of cold water for an hour. Then pat dry, and chop away.
- In Hawaiian, lomi lomi means to knead or massage. Lomi lomi salmon is salted salmon that is gently kneaded aka mixed together with other ingredients (tomatoes, onions, and green onions).
- Regarding the onions: if you can find sweet Maui onions, definitely use that (I know it’s hard to find outside of Hawaii).