Ingredients
Salmon glaze
• 2 TBSP miso (I use red for a sharper flavor, but you’re usually supposed to use white)
• 1 TBSP sake
• 1 TBSP mirin
• 1 TBSP soy sauce
• 1/4 TSP toasted sesame oil
Rice Options
(1) Coconut rice
• 2 CUP sticky white rice (or brown)
• 1 CUP coconut milk (shake up can w cream)
• 1/8 CUP desiccated coconut
• 1 TBSP coconut sugar (or brown or whatever you have that’s sweet)
• 1 TSP salt
• Note: If cooking in a pot, add another cup of water / If rice cooker (b/c you should have a rice cooker) fill water up to the relevant 2 cup line
(2) Ginger, barley, rice mixture
• 1 1/2 CUP white rice
• 1/2 CUP barley
• 2 TBSP fresh grated ginger
• 1 TBSP mirin
• 1 TBSP soy sauce
• 2 CUP chicken broth or water
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450F
- Mix glaze ingredients and marinate fish for 1 hour - 30 min
- Take salmon out of the fridge 30 min before cooking, wipe off excess glaze from skin
- Baking option:
- Salt skin side of salmon, place skin side down on baking tray
- Bake for 8 min at 450F
- Broil for 5-7 minutes longer (baste with glaze if it’s drying out in the last 2 minutes)
- Pan + baking option (crispier skin, but harder cleanup):
- Salt skin side of salmon, place skin side down on hot, oiled cast iron skillet
- Sear for 2 min then put in oven at 450F for 5 min
- Broil for 5-7 minutes longer (baste with glaze if it’s drying out in the last 2 minutes)
- Take out and serve with:
- Rice options listed above (just steam everything together!) (or just black rice for the low GL index option 😃)
- Steamed / roasted broccoli
- Sesame seeds / scallions
- Fukujinzuke… red pickled Japanese daikon that I LOVE