Sesame-Teriyaki Salmon
with sesame-soy cucumber salad and rice
You most likely already have all the ingredients needed to make a homemade teriyaki sauce. Sweet and salty at the same time, it gives so much flavor to our salmon
Ingredients
- Homemade Teriyaki sauce - ingredients listed separately
- Salmon - 1 to 1.5 lbs
- Lemon - 1/2, wedges
- Persian / English cucumbers - 1 lb, sliced
- Teriyaki Sauce - ingredients listed separately
- Toasted sesame oil - 2 tsp
- Sesame seeds - 2 Tbsp
- White / brown rice - 1 cup
- Soy sauce, low-sodium - 1/4 cup
- Rice vinegar - 2 tsp
- Brown sugar - 2 Tbsp
- Water - 1/4 cup
- Garlic - 3 cloves, minced
- Corn starch - 1 tsp
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Prep
- Rice – Make if not done on prep day. If you're also making tomorrow's meal, double the portions. Cook rice with a 2:1 water to rice ratio. Bring to a boil, then simmer until rice has absorbed all liquid (20 to 25 min. for white rice; 45 to 50 for brown)
- Make sauce – Mix together soy sauce, rice vinegar, brown sugar, water, and garlic (leave out corn starch for now)
- Fish – Rinse and dry fish. Pour 1/3rd of sauce into a Pyrex baking dish. Place fish non-skin side down in sauce. Cover and marinate in fridge for up to 24 hours
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Make
- Preheat the broiler in your oven and situate top rack so it’s about 6” (15 cm) away from the heat source
- Turn fish so that the “presentation” (the side that looks better or the non-skin side) side is facing up in the marinating dish. Broil fish for 8 to 15 minutes, depending on thickness (~6 minutes / half inch (1.25 cm) is a good rule of thumb)
- Meanwhile, slice cucumbers and toss with half of the remaining sauce. Add in toasted sesame oil and half of sesame seeds. Season to taste with salt
- Pour the remainder of the sauce into a small saucepan. Bring to a simmer and add 1 tsp. (5 ml) of corn starch mixed with 2 tbs. (30 ml) cold water. Stir to distribute and simmer until mixture thickens into a teriyaki sauce (similar to BBQ sauce consistency)
- When fish is done, brush with teriyaki sauce, and sprinkle with remaining sesame seeds. Serve with lemon wedges, more sauce on the side, your refreshing cucumber salad, and rice
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Reviews
Ratings
86 reviews
My husband loved the salmon. I would make it again with chicken for myself. Not a salmon fan. Cuke salad was good, maybe less soy sauce in them next time. Plate looked like a restaurant meal, my daughter snapped a pic.
0 HelpfulCucumber salad was delicious - definitely will double the recipe if we make it again! I'm not a big fish person but it tasted good. Next time I may try to substitute chicken.
0 HelpfulReally enjoyed this! Salmon was perfect, teriyaki sauce as well. Cucumber salad didn't fit in quite as well; might have been better chopped into smaller pieces.
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