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Broiled Maple-Soy Glazed Salmon Fillets with Toasted Sesame Seeds

By Bridget Lancaster

Published on June 24, 2009

Time

25 minutes

Yield

Serves 4

Broiled Maple-Soy Glazed Salmon Fillets with Toasted Sesame Seeds

Ingredients

½ cup maple syrup, pure¼ cup soy sauce 4 salmon fillets, 1 ¼ inches thickSalt and ground black pepper 2 teaspoons sesame seeds, toasted

Before You Begin

MAKE THE MINUTES COUNT: Prepare the glaze while the broiler heats.

Try to find fillets that are of similar size (about 6 ounces each) for even cooking times. If the fillets are thinner than 1 1/4 inches, they will cook much more quickly and won’t have enough oven time to glaze nicely. This recipe will work with both skin-on and skinless fillets.

Instructions

    heat and prep broiler pan

  1. Adjust oven rack 6 inches from broiler element and heat broiler. Line broiler pan bottom with foil, set broiler pan rack on top, and spray rack with vegetable oil spray.
  2. prepare glaze

  3. Simmer maple syrup and soy sauce together in small saucepan over medium heat until mixture is syrupy and measures roughly ½ cup, 3 to 5 minutes.
  4. season and glaze salmon

  5. Pat salmon dry with paper towels and season with salt and pepper. Lay salmon skin-side down on broiler pan (spaced about 1 inch apart). Reserve 2 tablespoons of glaze in clean bowl for serving, then brush half of remaining glaze evenly over salmon.
  6. broil salmon

  7. Broil until all but very center of fish has turned from translucent to opaque, 10 to 12 minutes, brushing salmon again with remaining glaze halfway through broiling.
  8. add reserved glaze and garnish

  9. Drizzle reserved glaze over salmon and sprinkle with sesame seeds before serving.
Broiled Maple-Soy Glazed Salmon Fillets with Toasted Sesame Seeds
Photography by Kevin White. Styling by Ashley Moore.

Broiled Maple-Soy Glazed Salmon Fillets with Toasted Sesame Seeds

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Time

25 minutes

Yield

Serves 4

Ingredients

½ cup maple syrup, pure
¼ cup soy sauce
4 salmon fillets, 1 ¼ inches thick
Salt and ground black pepper
2 teaspoons sesame seeds, toasted

Ingredients

½ cup maple syrup, pure
¼ cup soy sauce
4 salmon fillets, 1 ¼ inches thick
Salt and ground black pepper
2 teaspoons sesame seeds, toasted

Ingredients

½ cup maple syrup, pure
¼ cup soy sauce
4 salmon fillets, 1 ¼ inches thick
Salt and ground black pepper
2 teaspoons sesame seeds, toasted

Why This Recipe Works

Determining the distance from the broiler to cook the fish was task #1 while we developed our maple-soy glazed salmon fillets recipe. Too close and the exterior was well-done before the interior was even set. Too far away and the fish took a long time to cook and the glaze never, well, glazed. As for the glaze, if it was too thin, it simply slid off the fish and pooled in the pan. We found that it should be fairly thick, which meant concentrating it with a quick simmer. Thinking of our approach to barbecued chicken, in which we glaze the meat repeatedly toward the end of cooking to prevent the sugary sauce from burning, we lacquered the fish in our glazed salmon recipe with additional glaze midway through broiling and once again when the fish was done.

Before You Begin

MAKE THE MINUTES COUNT: Prepare the glaze while the broiler heats.

Try to find fillets that are of similar size (about 6 ounces each) for even cooking times. If the fillets are thinner than 1 1/4 inches, they will cook much more quickly and won’t have enough oven time to glaze nicely. This recipe will work with both skin-on and skinless fillets.

Instructions

    heat and prep broiler pan

  1. Adjust oven rack 6 inches from broiler element and heat broiler. Line broiler pan bottom with foil, set broiler pan rack on top, and spray rack with vegetable oil spray.
  2. prepare glaze

  3. Simmer maple syrup and soy sauce together in small saucepan over medium heat until mixture is syrupy and measures roughly ½ cup, 3 to 5 minutes.
  4. season and glaze salmon

  5. Pat salmon dry with paper towels and season with salt and pepper. Lay salmon skin-side down on broiler pan (spaced about 1 inch apart). Reserve 2 tablespoons of glaze in clean bowl for serving, then brush half of remaining glaze evenly over salmon.
  6. broil salmon

  7. Broil until all but very center of fish has turned from translucent to opaque, 10 to 12 minutes, brushing salmon again with remaining glaze halfway through broiling.
  8. add reserved glaze and garnish

  9. Drizzle reserved glaze over salmon and sprinkle with sesame seeds before serving.

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