{"id":14588,"date":"2011-08-04T06:41:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T22:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=14588"},"modified":"2011-08-19T12:16:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T04:16:54","slug":"re-entering-the-kitchen-teriyaki-salmon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/08\/04\/re-entering-the-kitchen-teriyaki-salmon\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-entering the Kitchen: Teriyaki Salmon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a fish lover as far as meat is concerned :) I attribute this to my mom who often fed me (&amp; my brothers) fish in my growing up days. She believes that fish can make a person intelligent.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy eating salmon tremendously. I love it raw in sushi, smoked in salad or sandwiches and also when it is cooked to its tender juiciness. :P Now, I&#8217;m still a novice when it comes to pan-frying or baking salmon. More often than not, I overcook my salmon. Come this Saturday, I&#8217;m going to prepare teriyaki salmon as one of the dishes for my MIL&#8217;s birthday-cum-potluck party. Hence, I must try out the dish at least once before the actual event. As far as hosting a dinner goes, never never try a new recipe on the actual day of the dinner. You might end up serving awful food to your guests who expect to have a pleasant meal.<\/p>\n<p>Below is my simple recipe for salmon slices in DIY teriyaki sauce. I prefer making my own teriyaki sauce as I always have mirin stashed in the kitchen. I seldom use teriyaki sauce in cooking and hence buying a bottle of it is not practical. As for mirin, I personally find it a convenient cooking alcohol whenever a recipe calls for the use of a small quantity of alcohol for marinating, etc. And the Japanese dishes I like to make require mirin too.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14590\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14590\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14590\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Teriyaki-salmon-blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Teriyaki-salmon-blog.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Teriyaki-salmon-blog-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yang enjoyed this dish :)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ingredients<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Salmon fillet (300 g, sliced to 1 cm thickness, pat dry with paper towel)<\/p>\n<p>Olive oil (2-3 tbsp)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">DIY terikayi sauce<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mirin (2 tbsp)<\/p>\n<p>Light soy sauce (2 tbsp)<\/p>\n<p>Sugar (1\/2 tbsp)<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Method<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) Heat up a non-stick frying pan using medium heat. Add olive oil and let it heat up briefly.<\/p>\n<p>2) Place salmon slices into the pan and let it cook for about 1 minute, more or less. (You don&#8217;t have to stir-fry. Just let the salmon slices sit and cook.)<\/p>\n<p>3) Turn over the salmon slices to cook the other side for less than a minute. Use your visual cue. The salmon should be cooked to 80% if you want tender and juicy fish.\u00a0 Test: If the flesh comes apart easily upon poking, turn off the heat and dish up immediately. Take care not to break the salmon.<\/p>\n<p>4) Mix the 3 ingredients for teriyaki sauce in a small bowl and stir well. Reheat the wok and pour the sauce in. Let the sauce simmer gently for a few minutes. Drizzle the sauce over salmon and serve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a fish lover as far as meat is concerned :) I attribute this to my mom who often fed me (&amp; my brothers) fish in my growing up days. She believes that fish can make a person intelligent. I<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/08\/04\/re-entering-the-kitchen-teriyaki-salmon\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Re-entering the Kitchen: Teriyaki Salmon<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-recipes","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-14-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}