Honey Soy Glazed Salmon
Honey Soy Glazed Salmon, in a restaurant-quality sticky, sweet glaze, is on the table in less than 15 minutes, making it a fantastic weeknight dinner option.
Ingredients
- 2 tbspregular soy sauce or tamari
- 2 tbspapple cider vinegar (or rice wine vinegar or fresh lime juice)
- 2 tbsphoney (or brown sugar)
- 2 tspfreshly minced garlic
- 1 tspfreshly minced ginger
- 4salmon fillets, skin on
- ½ tspsalt
- ½ tspcracked black pepper
- 1 tbspolive oil
- 2 cupscooked jasmine rice
- 1 cupfrozen edamame beans, thawed as per packet instructions
- 2lebanese (persian/short) cucumbers, sliced
- 1 tbspsesame seeds
- 4 tbspspicy mayonnaise (or plain whole-egg mayonnaise)
Directions
Sauce
- 1
Combine the sauce ingredients in a small bowl.
Salmon
- 1
Sprinkle the salmon fillets with salt and pepper.
- 2
Heat the olive oil in a large frying pan (ideally non-stick) over medium heat. Cook the salmon for 4 minutes, skin-side down first. Flip and cook for a further 3 minutes.
- 3
Add the sauce to the pan. Cook for 1–2 minutes, basting the salmon all over with the sauce continuously, using a spoon, until the sauce becomes sticky and begins to glaze the salmon.
Serve
- 1
Divide the rice, edamame beans and cucumber among four bowls. Add the salmon and sticky sauce to each of the bowls, then top with sesame seeds and drizzle of spicy mayonnaise.