In this short kitchen demonstration, Dr. David Perlmutter and Liz Perlmutter walk viewers through a quick, 20‑minute slow‑roasted salmon recipe featuring a mustard‑turmeric glaze. They stress the Grain Brain program’s core principle of making brain‑healthy meals that are easy to prepare. The dialogue highlights the nutritional power of salmon’s DHA (2,000‑3,000 mg per 6‑oz serving) for neurogenesis, the anti‑inflammatory, gene‑activating benefits of turmeric in mustard, and the re‑introduction of butter as a healthy fat. Practical tips are given on selecting wild versus farmed salmon, thawing frozen fillets in cold water, using canned salmon, and substituting fresh herbs. The segment ends with the finished dish, presented as one of the 150 “life‑changing” recipes in the Grain Brain Cookbook.
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Hello, I'm Dr. David Perlmutter.
And I'm Liz Perlmutter. Welcome to our kitchen. Today we're going to make slow-roasted salmon with mustard glaze. It is so easy and quick to prepare.
You know, that's really an important point about the whole Grain Brain program, and that is to make foods that are easy to prepare, that are quick, you don't have to labor over them. And why are we cooking salmon today? Because it's an important brain food. Salmon is rich in fat. It contains that really important fat that we've talked about, DHA. It actually turns on your brain's ability to grow new brain cells. One 6-ounce piece of salmon may have as much as 2,000 to 3,000 milligrams of DHA. And this is a great butter-based dressing that we're putting on the salmon. Butter is back. Yes, you should eat butter. It's good for you. We've got— Butter is good for you. Parsley, almonds, mustard seed, and mustard. You know, what gives mustard its beautiful golden yellow flavor is the turmeric that it contains. And like the DHA, turmeric is really important for turning on your genes that actually make anti-inflammatory chemicals, that make antioxidants. So we've got the salmon here, and I guess you're gonna— oh, I get to do my part, don't I?
You can, you can. Okay. You get to put a little bit of lemon zest into here.
Lemon zest, alright.
You can get wild salmon individually. So all you need to do is take them out of the freezer and put them in some cold water for 20 minutes. They're thawed and ready to go in the oven.
You shouldn't be put off actually by the term Atlantic salmon. That's to trick you. Atlantic salmon means it's farm-raised. Atlantic is— Atlantic salmon is the name of the fish, but typically that's farm-raised. You want to look for the word wild, and that can be canned. You can buy canned salmon. It travels well along with things like avocados and cashews and almonds. And here we go.
This is all ready to go in the oven, and I would like to just say you can substitute parsley for any fresh herbs, dill. It's so simple.
Now that's going in for about 20 minutes, right?
20 minutes and we'll have dinner ready. Great.
You ready? Great.
It's 20 minutes later, and look at this beautiful creation.
Slow roasted salmon with mustard glaze. Just one of the 150 life-changing recipes in the Grain Brain Cookbook.
