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Miso sauce seared salmon served on a plate topped with green onions being picked up with chopsticks.
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Salmon with Miso Sauce

Discover the perfect miso sauce for salmon recipe. Elevate your dish with this flavorful Japanese-inspired condiment, ideal for enhancing the taste of tender, pan-seared salmon. Try it now!
Course Main Course
Cuisine Asian, Japanese
Keyword miso sauce for salmon
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Servings 2
Calories 293kcal

Ingredients

Salmon

  • 12 oz Salmon boneless and skinless
  • 1 tbsp Cooking Oil neutral, no flavor or taste
  • 1/8 tsp Salt
  • 1/8 tsp Black Pepper
  • 1 Stalk Green Onion

Miso Sauce

  • 1 tbsp Miso
  • 1 tbsp Japanese Sake can substitute with dry sherry wine or Chinese cooking wine
  • 1 tbsp Sweetener your preferred sweetener
  • 2 tsp Heavy Cream
  • 1/2 tsp Sriracha

Instructions

  • Gather all the ingredients.
    Ingredients to make miso sauce seared salmon on the counter top.
  • Chop green onions and set aside.
    Chopped green onions.
  • Pat dry the salmon fillet and sprinkle salt and black pepper on both sides.
    Salmon fillet seasoned with salt and black pepper.
  • Add Japanese sake to a frying pan and bring to a boil. Once boiling, remove from heat, transfer to a mixing bowl and combine with miso, sweetener, heavy cream and sriracha.
    Cream miso glaze sauce in a mixing bowl.
  • In a frying pan, add neutral oil on high heat. Once the oil is up to temp, reduce heat to medium high, add salmon fillet, cover and cook for 1.5-2 minutes. Flip the salmon, cover and cook for 1.5-2 more minutes or until meat easily flakes off a fork. Transfer to a serving plate and drizzle miso sauce on top. Top with chopped green onions.
    Miso sauce seared salmon served on a plate topped with green onions.

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Nutrition

Calories: 293kcal | Carbohydrates: 3g | Protein: 35g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 5g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 99mg | Sodium: 567mg | Potassium: 879mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 211IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 34mg | Iron: 2mg