Monday, April 23, 2012

Honey Soy Glazed Salmon

Salmon is a sure way to make an easy, tasty, and healthy dinner. It's hard to mess up as long as you keep it simple and avoid overcooking. Salmon is a very versatile fish; you can marinate or dry rub, and it also goes with almost any side dish. Here, I decided to go with the vaguely Asian theme and use Chinese noodles. You could also easily serve this with rice or potatoes, as well. I get my salmon from Sam's Club (at a little under $7 a pound) and slice it into individual portions. You can freeze these indefinitely.


Ingredients
  • Salmon fillets
  • 1/4 cup soy sauce
  • 2 tbs honey
  • 1 tsp brown sugar
  • 1/2 tsp sesame oil
  • 1/2 tsp rice vinegar
  • Chinese egg noodles
  • Olive oil

Instructions

Combine soy sauce, honey, brown sugar, sesame oil and vinegar in a bowl and mix thoroughly. Slice the salmon into 2 inch-wide pieces. Marinate the salmon for about 20 minutes. Preheat broiler. When finished marinating, line a sheet pan with foil and brush it lightly with olive oil. Broil the salmon for about 8 minutes, watching carefully for burning. The thin end of the salmon will probably burn; you can just discard this if you want. The salmon will be juicy and tender on the inside.


For the noodles, boil dry noodles in salted water for 3 minutes. Heat a bit of oil in a non-stick pan. Transfer the cooked noodles to the pan. Fry until slightly crunchy on the outside, flipping frequently to get all sides. I served 2 pieces of salmon with 1 "nest" of noodles.

2 comments:

  1. This is a great way to do salmon. Individually kept frozen, they will hold for a few months. I would suggest both white or a lighter and fresher tasting red wine. Riesling is a great white wine with salmon. For the red wine crowd, a Pinot Noir will work well. The glaze shows so well on the fish in the picture. Looks almost like varnish on the fish. You can also cook the remaining marinade or just micro-wave it and drizzle back on the fish or on the noodles. Nice work.

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  2. Euro-beer suggestion: I've been trying some of the Russkies' "Baltika" brewery, and Baltika 6 Porter is really pretty good. Lots of thick coffee-ish goodness going on. The rest of Baltika is only so-so, but the porter is nice.

    Also, the Woodchuck Summer that is out is pretty good.

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