Baked miso salmon. Grilled the salmon instead of bake/broil. Instead of the salad dressing I used a generous splash of light soy, fresh ground ginger, garlic, some mirin instead of sake, a bit of rice wine vineager and a squeeze of lime. I used maybe a quarter cup of miso since it seemed like it would be too salty with more. I also used honey instead of brown sugar. Make sure the fish is coated with the miso sauce.

The miso marinade for this salmon is my mum's recipe - a very classic Japanese marinade. It's only got FOUR ingredients in it - seriously!!! Miso, sugar, sake (Japanese rice wine) and mirin (Japanese sweet rice wine). You can have Baked miso salmon using 4 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Baked miso salmon

You need 2 of salmon fillets.
It's 3 tbsp of white miso paste.
You need 1 tbsp of sake.
It's 1.5 tbsp of mirin.

Just mix it together, slather it on, marinade then barbecue OR bake the salmon. Place the miso paste, mirin, sugar, ginger, sesame oil, and salt in a small, broiler-safe baking dish just large enough to hold the salmon. Whisk until the miso is well-combined and the sugar is dissolved. Place the salmon in the marinade skin-side up.

Baked miso salmon instructions

Mix all sauce ingredients together.
Marinate salmon for 2-3 days.
Bake salmon at 180°C for 12 mins.

Miso salmon is an amazing recipe where you can use just a little bit of miso and make your regular and everyday salmon into something absolutely delicious. White miso is the mildest version of miso in Japanese cooking , the others being red miso (darker and more pungent and intense in taste) and mixed miso. The Use of Miso in Japanese Recipes. Miso makes a wonderful marinade, and it goes very well with both fish and meat. I've previously shared the buttery and savory Miso Cod and my family's all-time favorite Garlic Miso Chicken on the blog.