If you love eating fish but are hesitant about frying, with oil splattering and making a mess in the kitchen, try this delicious and visually appealing teriyaki fish fillet baked in the oven. Let’s get cooking and make this delicious grilled dish right away!
1. Japanese Teriyaki Sauce
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Preparation
10 minutes
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Cooking
20 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Ingredients for Japanese Teriyaki Sauce Serves 3
Cornstarch 15 g Minced ginger 7.5 gr Minced garlic 5 g Mirin 45 ml Soy sauce 120 ml Honey 15 ml Brown sugar 110 gr Sesame oil 15 ml
What is Mirin?
- Mirin is a sweet seasoning with a light yellow color, a slightly thicker liquid than water. It contains about 40% – 50% sugar and 14% alcohol. Mirin is used to season braised and grilled dishes to give the finished food a shiny appearance.
- You can buy Mirin at supermarkets, baking stores, or e-commerce websites.
- The price of Mirin ranges from 100,000 to 190,000 VND depending on the type.
How to make Japanese Teriyaki Sauce
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Mix the ingredients
Add the Teriyaki sauce mixture including: 20ml soy sauce, 110g brown sugar into a bowl and stir until dissolved.
Then add 7.5g minced ginger, 5g minced garlic, 15ml honey, 15ml sesame oil, and 45ml Mirin wine into the bowl and mix well.
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Cook the Teriyaki sauce
Pour the Teriyaki sauce mixture into a pot and bring to a boil. When the Teriyaki sauce starts boiling, reduce the heat and simmer for about 4 minutes until the sauce thickens.
Remove the pot from the stove and let the Teriyaki sauce cool to finish.
Note: When the Teriyaki sauce is completely cool, pour it into tightly sealed jars and store it in the refrigerator to preserve it for a long time
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Final Product
With the sauce you just prepared, you can separate some to drizzle over the meat before grilling.
The sauce not only penetrates evenly, helping the meat to be tender, shiny, and flavorful, but also protects the piece of meat from harmful substances that can cause cancer during the grilling process.
2. Teriyaki Fish Fillet
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Preparation
30 minutes
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Cooking
30 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Ingredients for Teriyaki Fish Fillet For 2 people
Fish fillet 300 gr Broccoli 100 gr Carrot 50 gr Bell pepper 50 gr Teriyaki sauce 70 gr Soy sauce 70 gr Sugar 15 gr White sesame 15 gr Cooking oil 20 gr Pepper 5 gr Salt 5 gr Green onion 10 gr
How to choose delicious fish fillets
- A good fish fillet is a piece of fish that is moist and fresh, with a light pink color, and has good elasticity when touched.
- If the fish skin is peeling off, or the fish flesh turns gray, and is soft and flaky when touched, it means the fish has been stored for too long and is not fresh.
Depending on the preferences and tastes of each family, you can choose various types of fish fillets such as salmon, grouper, mackerel, tuna, basa…
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How to cook Teriyaki fish fillet
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Prepare the ingredients
Wash the broccoli, carrots, and bell peppers thoroughly, peel the carrots, and cut them into small pieces.
To prevent the fish fillet from being fishy, soak the fish in rice water or dilute salted water for about 10 minutes, then wash it clean. Alternatively, you can rub coarse salt directly on the fish, or soak the fish in cold water mixed with a little vinegar.
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Blanching vegetables
You boil water and wait until it boils, then add the vegetables and blanch for about 2 minutes before removing them.
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Making teriyaki sauce
Add 70g of teriyaki sauce into a bowl with 70g of soy sauce, 15g of sugar, 15g of white sesame and mix well.
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Baking the fish
Wrap a layer of parchment paper on the baking tray, then arrange the vegetables underneath and brush with 1 layer of cooking oil along with 5g of salt, 5g of pepper. Once done, place the fish fillet on top and drizzle teriyaki sauce over the fish and the vegetables.
Put the fish in the oven at a temperature of 220 degrees Celsius for about 20 minutes.
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Final product
The fish fillet absorbs the rich flavor of teriyaki sauce, and the vegetables are not only delicious but also good for health, eating with rice is also great, you should try it!
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It seems very complicated, teriyaki fish fillet is actually very simple, easy to make, and delicious, full of flavor. Wishing you success on your first attempt!
*Refer to images and recipes from the YouTube channel Cà Mên Gỗ.
