Name: Best Marinade for Salmon
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Ingredients: ½ cup soy sauce; ¼ cup mirin; ¼ cup sugar; 2 tablespoons sake or soju; ⅓ cup mayonnaise; 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lime juice; salt, (to taste)

Best Marinade for Salmon

As a salmon lover, this is what I believe to be the Best Marinade for Salmon!

Best Salmon Marinade Recipe

This summer, my sister came to stay with us at our rented beach house in Massachusetts. She brought a recipe from Food and Wine magazine that was shared by chef Stephanie Izzard. The recipe was a Grilled Tomato Salad with Mozzarella and Unagi Sauce. It was a bit of a pain to prepare– since you have to grill the tomatoes, which can be tough if the tomatoes begin falling apart! The salad turned out to be really delicious, and it was all because of the sauce drizzled on top.

The Best Salmon Marinade Recipe

We immediately determined that the sauce would be perfect for salmon. So that’s how this recipe originated. If you have a really delicious piece of good salmon, you can lightly coat it with olive oil, salt and pepper and grill… brushing lightly with the marinade as you grill. Or if you prefer for the salmon to have the strong flavor of a marinade, you can cover the salmon in the sauce and marinate in the refrigerator for a couple of hours before grilling. Be sure to save some sauce for drizzling after it it cooked.

Best Salmon Marinade

Leftover, marinated salmon is perfect for topping a great green salad too!

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Best Marinade for Salmon

By RecipeGirl.com (sourced from this Food and Wine recipe)

If you're a salmon lover you'll be using this recipe over and over again.

Prep: 10

Cook: 15

Total: 25

Servings: 6 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

In a small saucepan, whisk together the soy sauce, mirin, sugar and sake; bring to a boil. Simmer over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture has reduced to about ¼ cup (about 12 minutes). It will be rather syrupy. Let cool.
When cooled, whisk in the mayonnaise and lime juice, and season with salt..
Keep refrigerated until ready to use with salmon. If it thickens up too much, just heat it a bit to soften it. Drizzle over salmon and marinate for about an hour before grilling or baking. You can brush the sauce on while cooking if you'd like to.

Nutrition

Serving: 1serving, Calories: 72kcal, Carbohydrates: 7g, Protein: 1g, Fat: 5g, Saturated Fat: 1g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g, Monounsaturated Fat: 1g, Trans Fat: 0.01g, Cholesterol: 3mg, Sodium: 347mg, Potassium: 14mg, Fiber: 0.04g, Sugar: 5g, Vitamin A: 5IU, Vitamin C: 0.4mg, Calcium: 2mg, Iron: 0.1mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.