Glazed Salmon Recipe
An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Recipe Overview
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Serves: 4-6 people
Ingredients Needed
- 900g-1kg salmon side
- 45g/1.6ozs hoi sin sauce
- 2 teaspoons/10g/0.3floz mirin or caster sugar or simple syrup
- 2 teaspoons/10g/0.3floz rice wine vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder or 1 clove garlic minced
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Step-By-Step Instructions
Step 1 - Preheat oven to 180C/350F conventional or 160C/320F fan forced and line a large baking tray with parchment. Mix the hoi sin sauce, mirin, rice wine vinegar, garlic powder and salt together in a small bowl. Place the salmon skin side down on the tray and brush all over with the sauce, twice to create a thick coat of glaze. Bake for 10 minutes.
Step 2 - Baste again with more glaze and return to the oven for another 10 minutes. Rest for 5-8 minutes and serve.
Substitution notes and ingredients:
Salmon or raw ocean trout can be used in this recipe.
Hoi sin sauce is a sweet and savoury sauce made of fermented soy beans and garlic (you've probably tried it with Peking Duck). It can be found in the Asian aisle at the supermarket or at an Asian grocery store.
Mirin is a sweet rice wine is used like sugar in Japanese cuisine. It can be found in the Asian aisle at the supermarket or at an Asian grocery store. You can sub it with honey or maple syrup.
Rice wine vinegar is a mild vinegar. You can also use other mild vinegars like champagne vinegar, white wine vinegar or sherry vinegar.
Personal Note
I absolutely love cooking fish when people come over because it is so fast and sometimes you need something delicious and tasty that won't take forever. Do you ever lose time? Or maybe it's a matter of not be be able to tell the time. One Saturday we had a lunch booking. The restaurant was about half an hour away from us and the booking was for 12:30pm so I thought that I had plenty of time.
I went downstairs and did some work in my office and then pondered doing a bit more. But then I heard Mr NQN go upstairs to our room so I decided to follow him because I like spending time together. "Don't worry about me, I'm just going to work out," I said to him before adding, "I am just going to do a short one today."
I started to roll out the yoga mat to do HIIT and then looked at the time on my laptop which was playing the routine. "Hang on, do we need to leave in 20 minutes?" I said blinking my eyes. "Yes, I didn't understand why you wanted to work out," Mr NQN said shrugging.
I swung into action and rolled up my yoga mat and started getting ready but also wondering how on earth I managed to lose an hour! And I swear I know how to tell the time...
So tell me Dear Reader, do you ever mis-tell the time like that? And do you prefer salmon medium rare of cooked through?