Showing posts with label salmon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label salmon. Show all posts

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Honey Soy glazed grilled salmon

This recipe is from the Cook's Illustrated guide to grilling and barbecue.

I used skinless center cut salmon fillets instead of skin-on fillets - this worked fine.

Marinate salmon fillets for thirty minutes in a half-and-half mixture of soy sauce and maple syrup. Prepare a two-level grill - heat the grill with all burners on for 15 minutes - then turn all but one of the burners down to low.

Prepare glaze while the fillets are marinating:

In a small saucepan, mix together 3 tbsp. each of soy sauce and honey. Heat over low heat until is thickens slightly.

  • Oil the grill over the burner on high -
  • Put the fillets over the high burner, grill for two minutes on each side. Brush the glaze on the top side after the second side grills for two minutes -
  • Flip the fillets glazed side down over one of the low burners.
  • Glaze the new top side.
  • Flip after three minutes and grill for another three minutes.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Oriental Amaretto Broiled Salmon

Broiled Salmon with Soy / Ameretto Sauce

Recipe from: http://homecooking.about.com/library/archive/blfish4.htm

1/4 cup DISARONNO® Originale Amaretto (I used another cheap brand)
1/4 cup light soy sauce
2 Tbsp lime juice
2 Tbsp sesame oil (I used much less - probably .5 tsp.)
1/4 tsp ground black pepper
1 tsp grated fresh ginger
Salt to taste
2 salmon fillets (1-1/2 pounds each) skin on
1 Tbsp Honey (the recipe called for Hoison - but I didn't have any)

I mixed the sauce ingrediants and marinated defrosted skinless salmon filettes (no skin) for about 20 minutes.

While the fillets were marinating, I boiled a small amount of water in a chef's pan for steaming asparagus + 3/4 cup water to use for cous-cous.

I poured most of the marinade off of the filets and in to a sauce pan - which I brought to boil over a medium flame, and then let boi for about 10 minutes - until reduced.

While the sauce was boiling, I put the fillets under the broiler (about 5 inches from the flame) for 4 minutes on on each side. I added about a half a cup of vermout after turning the fillets.

Right after truning the fillets, I added asparagus to the steaming pan, covered it, and added the cous cous to the hot waterI boiled for it.

4 minutes on each side was enough to cook the thinner fillets through. The thicker fillet was still rare in the middle - but it was pretty tasty that way.

I served the fillets over cous cous with the asparagus - and with lemon slices. The lemon was good on the asparagus also.

This was pretty good - but not great - too salty. THe steam ed asparagus with lemon juice was the best part. The cous cous was supposed to have been flavorted, but it was pretty bland - it would have been better cooked in stock with some veggies in it.