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MIRIN-GLAZED SALMON
DINNER
Serves 2
Katherine
Thomson, UK
“This mirin-glazed salmon
is my favourite healthy mid-
week meal. It’s a super-easy
Nigella Lawson classic – we
serve it with a delicious cold
noodle salad instead of
sushi rice.”
Ingredients:
•
2 salmon fillets
•
60ml mirin
•
60ml soy sauce
•
50 grams light brown sugar (or just
a teaspoonful, if you like)
•
2 tablespoons rice vinegar
•
spring onion – a handful, sliced
•
bean sprouts – a handful
•
1 packet of mangetout (snow peas),
steamed but still crunchy
•
sesame oil
•
toasted sesame seeds
•
juice of half a lime
•
coriander – handful, roughly
chopped
•
1 packet egg noodles
Directions:
1. Marinate the salmon in the mirin, soy
and sugar for about five minutes,
turning occasionally. Meanwhile,
prep the salad by cooking the
noodles to the packet instructions.
Drizzle with sesame oil then leave to
cool. Once cooled, mix in all the other
salad ingredients (using your hands
is easiest), leaving some coriander
and spring onion.
2. Cook the salmon in a dry, non-
stick pan for 2 minutes on each
side, adding the marinade juices
at the end. Once cooked, plate up
the noodles and top them with the
salmon.
3. Pour any remaining marinade juices
over the salmon and finish off with the
lime-juice and remaining coriander
and spring onion.