Salmon Teriyaki 

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A well known Japanese dish using a sweet and shiny sauce for marinating and glazing the fish. From Yasuko Fukuoka's book, Classic Japanese.

Suggestions:

Allow for at least one-and-a-half hours for cooling sauce and marinating.

Ingredients:

4 salmon fillets with skin on, each weighing about 150g

50 g beansprouts, washed

50 g snowpeas, ends trimmed

20 g carrot, cut into thin strips

45 mL Japanese soy sauce

45 mL sake

45 mL mirin

1 1/2 Tbsp caster sugar

Directions:

To make the teriyaki sauce, mix the soy sauce, sake, mirin and 1 Tbsp of the sugar in a pan. Heat to dissolve the sugar. Remove and cool for an hour.

Place the salmon fillets in a shallow dish and pour the teriyaki sauce over the top. Leave to marinate for 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, boil the vegetables in lightly salted water. First, add the beansprouts, then after one minute add the snow peas. Leave for one minute again and add the carrot strips. Remove the pan from the heat after a further minute and drain the vegetables. Keep warm.

Preheat a grill to medium. Take the salmon fillets out of the sauce and pat dry with kitchen paper. Reserve the sauce. Grill the salmon for about 6 minutes, carefully turning once until golden on both sides.

Pour the sauce into the pan. Add another 2 tsp sugar and heat until dissolved. Remove from the heat. Brush the salmon with the sauce, then grill until the surface of the fish bubbles. Turn over and repeat on the other side.

Heap the vegetables onto serving plates. Place the salmon on top and spoon the rest of the sauce over the dish.

Variations:

Note: this recipe contains no saturated fats or cholesterol so makes an excellent choice for those watching their cholesterol levels. Salmon is high in Omega-3 fatty acids, which have been shown to have a range of health benefits.

Author:

Yasuko Fukuoka, Classic Japanese

Member Comments: (1)

By: bikinigal - 2012-02-09
BEWARE: I make my own Teriyaki Salmon all the time and I can assure you that the nutritional stats for this recipe are way off! A 150g fillet of salmon is given as 303 cals on this site & 275 cals on the US site - both higher than the meal total of 239 cals quoted here.