Salmon Teriyaki

Name: Salmon Teriyaki (Sake Teriyaki)
Yield: Serves four
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 15 ml/1 tbsp plus 10 ml/2 tsp caster (superfine) sugar; 45 ml/3 tbsp mirin; salt; 20 g/¾ oz carrot, cut into thin strips; 45 ml/3 tbsp sake; 45 ml/3 tbsp shoyu; 50 g/2 oz/¼ cup beansprouts, washed; 4 small salmon fillets with skin on, each weighing about 150 g/5 oz; 50 g/2 oz mangetouts (snow peas), ends trimmed

Sake Teriyaki

Preparation info

Serves
four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Japanese Cookbook

By Emi Kazuko and Yasuko Fukuoka

Published 2024

About

Sake Teriyaki is a well-known Japanese dish, which uses a sweet and shiny sauce for marinating as well as for glazing the ingredients.

Ingredients

4 small salmon fillets with skin on, each weighing about 150 g/5 oz
50

Asia
Japan
Fish course
Pescatarian

Method

Mix all the ingredients for the teriyaki sauce except for the 10ml/2 tsp sugar, in a pan. Heat to dissolve the sugar. Remove and cool for an hour.
Place the salmon fillet in a shallow glass or china dish and pour over the teriyaki sauce. Leave to marinate for 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, boil the vegetables in lightly salted water. First add t