Eat Like a Gladiator
Posted by Cate O’Malley on Fit Fare.
It’s hard to believe that it was way back in 1989 when the American Gladiators show first hit television screens, but it was. Given their massive physique, the gladiators need some pretty powerful diets to keep up with the demands of the competition, and they eat as much protein in one day as we would normally eat in five.
In a recent interview in OK! magazine, they gave a recipe for Sweet Soy Wild Salmon that keeps the team in tip-top fighting shape.
Sweet Soy Wild Salmon
Serves 2
10 oz wild salmon filet with skin
1 lb shiitake mushrooms
1 enoki mushroom
1/2 oz red chili
4 oz garlic
1/4 bunch parsley
2 oz sake
2 oz soy sauce
Marinade:
7 oz sweet soy sauce
1 teaspoon cinammon
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/2 oz brown sugar
Combine all the ingredients of the marinade and mix well. Let the salmon filet (with skin on) marinate for an hour in the sauce. Saute the red chili, garlic and shiitake mushrooms, then add the enoki, parsley and sake. Add soy sauce to taste. Grill the salmon filet until the skin is crispy. Reduce marinade until it turns into a glaze. Serve the mushroom mixture with the filet of salmon on top. Finish off with glaze.
Photo from NBC.
