Japanese Poached Salmon

In Food Around The World, Recipes | Delicious and Quick Recipes for Real Food by Lisa Soldo-Johnson2 Comments

japanese poached salmon recipe

Japanese cooking is a favorite style of mine for flavor and presentation. From Teppanyaki to Sukiyaki to Sushi, the art of Japanese cooking has a unique way of creating an exciting experience at the dinner table. Depending on how the food is prepared, it can be quick, simple and best of all healthy  - a winning combination for busy moms like me. Although I’d much rather leave the sushi making to my favorite Japanese restaurant, I love to make this poached salmon recipe at home whenever the craving for a Japanese-style adventure comes to mind.

Japanese Poached Salmon is one of my favorite ways to prepare this fish. It’s delicious, simple to prepare and makes an impressive main course to serve at your next dinner party or on any night of the week for a great family meal.

Your kids will even love it! I prefer to pair this dish with my Mediterranean Herb Salad and a side of rice. Even though the salad isn’t exactly a Japanese style of salad, I just love the flavor combination of this lightly creamy fish paired with the zesty flavors infused in this salad.

ingredients for japanese poached salmon

So what’s the secret ingredient that makes this Japanese dish so delightful? Simple. The cream sauce combined with rice wine - or better known as everyone’s favorite Japanese wine. Yep, you guessed it  -  Sake.

As they say in Japan, 魚を楽しみます “ Sakana o tanoshimimasu”, Enjoy the fish!

I hope you enjoy this recipe! If you’ve made it please share it with me by tagging @culinarybutterfly on Pinterest.

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Course Entrees
Cuisine Japanese
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
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Course Entrees
Cuisine Japanese
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Servings
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Ingredients
Instructions
  1. Prepare all of your ingredients. Rinse salmon and pat dry with a paper towel. Cut filet into 4 equal portions.
  2. In large skillet, arrange mushrooms and onions covering bottom of pan. Place salmon pieces on top.
  3. Pour sake and water over salmon and bring to a boil over medium-high. Cover, reduce heat to medium-low and gently simmer 3 to 5 minutes or only until salmon is slightly undercooked. Remove salmon from pan, transfer to a plate, cover with tin foil, and set aside.
  4. Increase heat to medium-high and continue to boil mushrooms and onions until the liquid has reduced to 2 cups.
  5. Add any extra juices from salmon plate, stir in heavy cream, butter, tarragon, salt, and pepper. Reduce heat to medium and continue to cook 10 to 15 minutes until the liquid has reduced to 1 cup. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Remove sauce from heat and set aside.
  6. Transfer salmon to individual serving plates, spoon mushroom reduction sauce on top of salmon. Serve immediately.
Recipe Notes

Recipe by Stephanie Krieg for www.culinarybutterfly.com

Comments

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    I love salmon but have never tried poaching it until I found your recipe and oh wow! I may never eat salmon any other way again. To be honest, I was afraid the fish would retain an alcoholic flavor from the saki but combined with the butter cream sauce it was truly a mouth full of perfection! I will be making this for our dinner guests this weekend. Thank you for the recipe!

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      Hi Sara,
      I’m so happy you found and love my Japanese Poached Salmon recipe! I agree, the poaching process with salmon is pretty magical. It leaves the salmon light, buttery, and bursting with flavor especially topped with the sauce. A personal quick tip – I double the sauce recipe because it is so delicious that in this case more is always better. I hope your dinner guests enjoy this recipe as much as you!

      Lisa~

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