How to Make Miso-Glazed Salmon

All you have to do is stir together ¼ cup red or white miso, ⅓ cup sake, 1 tablespoon soy sauce, 2 tablespoons vegetable oil and ¼ cup of sugar then rub all over your salmon and marinate for 30 minutes or up to 2 days. Pop it in the toaster oven (or under your broiler) for about 5 minutes, which will create a savory-sweet caramelized glaze and moist, tender, flaky salmon.

Don’t have sake? Kenji says a dry white wine would work too. You can also substitute another mild fish such as cod-or even tilapia or catfish if you’re on a budget-for the salmon. Feeling fancy? Try the miso treatment on black cod, which is a nod to the iconic miso-marinated black cod at legendary Japanese restaurant Nobu.

Food writer, recipe developer, and Simply Recipes Senior Editor Myo Quinn demonstrates a similar recipe on TikTok. She mixes the miso with sake, sugar and soy sauce. Although she likes to marinate the fish for about 6 hours, in the video she mentions that she was in a hurry and didn't have time to marinate it.

After cooking under the broiler for 6 minutes the top of the salmon was browned and bubbly and the inside was tender and flaky. Quinn confirmed that it was as delicious as it looks, which gives us all permission to take that shortcut when we need to.

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