Monday 17 October 2011

Seared Japanese Salmon with vegetables and noodles

Some days you just don't fancy what you planned for dinner and you want something quick and easy with stuff that's in the cupboard.
That happened with us, I was going to make salmon fish cakes but at about 4.30 we didn't fancy them so a quick change around and seared salmon was made.

I used 4 salmon fillets, they were just the Sainsbury's basics ones and made a marinade of 1tablespoon of each of  honey, dark soy sauce, Shaoshin rice wine (it should have been sake but we didn't have any) and a tiny bit of wasabe paste. I mixed them all up and squished the salmon about in it then left it for about 10 minutes whilst  I chopped some vegetables into julienne strips and small florets, just stuff we had in the fridge ; a couple of carrots some broccoli a few runner beans from the garden, half a courgette and  some celery. These were then sightly steamed so hot and still crispy whilst some noodles were thrown into boiling water. I heated a frying pan with a little oil till smoking hot and flung in the salmon skin side down for a couple of minutes till the skin was crisp, then over for a couple of minutes, when cooked (I can't bear undercooked fish where it has that slightly creepy texture about it!) heated through the rest of the marinade in the same pan. Then drained the noodles and put them in a bowl with the vegetables on the top and the salmon on top of that with the sauce and a tiny bit of chopped chilli!
All done in 15 minutes for £1.25 each!

Nom, nom, nom!

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