[Japanese Recipes] Miso-Glazed Salmon

Miso-Glazed Salmon – quick and easy 3-ingredient Japanese miso glaze for the best and juiciest salmon ever. Amazing homemade recipe that everyone loves.

As a food blogger and endless recipe testing on a daily basis, I always have a favorite ingredient or what I call “flavor of the month.” Recently, that flavor of the month is white miso, and I have been adding it to many recipes I make recently, for example: grilled shrimp with kimchi miso butter.

White miso is the mildest version in Japanese cooking, the others being red miso (darker and more pungent and intense in taste) and mixed miso. Personally, I love white miso the most for its subtle and sweet taste. If you are not familiar with miso, just think of it as the base of Japanese miso soup, the grainy bits made from fermented soy beans. If you haven’t used miso before, I suggest you start with white miso.

A little bit of miso in any savory dishes is bound to make the dishes even better, the so-called “umami” so profound inJapanese cuisine. So, today’s post is miso-glazed salmon, and how you can use just a little bit of miso and make your regular and everyday salmon into something absolutely delicious, so much so that even your picky eater would gobble it up and eat it. Yes, it happened in my home, where my salmon-hating-3-year-old asked for more serving of the miso-glazed salmon!

To make the miso glaze, you only need 3 basic ingredients. These 3 ingredients can be purchased from any Asian stores as they are really common: white miso (usually comes in a small plastic tub) and as its name suggest, white miso looks pale yellowish white, the lightest in color. It’s also labeled as shiromiso. The other two ingredients are mirin , which is Japanese sweet seasoning wine, and rice vinegar. If you are unsure of which brand to buy, I strongly recommend Mizkan, which is what I use.

Serves 2 | Prep Time: 10 Minutes | Cook Time: 10 Minutes
Source: Fine Cooking

Ingredients:

1 lb skin on salmon fillets, preferably about 3/4 inch thick

Miso Glaze:

1/4 cup white miso
2 tablespoons mirin
1/2 teaspoon rice vinegar

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to broil.
2. Mix the Miso Glaze ingredients in a small bowl and set aside.
3. Clean the salmon, cut into two pieces and pat dry with paper towels.
4. Put the salmon fillets skin side down on a foil-lined rimmed baking sheet, leaving space between them and broil for 3 minutes.
5. Remove the baking sheet from the oven, with a spoon, spread the miso mixture over the top of the fillets. Broil for 2 minutes or until the salmon is just barely opaque in the center.

This recipe and image sources are referred in website: Rasamalaysia.com. Thanks so much!