Hoisin can be used for all sorts of dishes and is terrific as glaze for baked salmon. In this recipe salmon fillets marinate for about 30 minutes in a hoisin-based marinade, and then are quickly broiled. It’s such a quick and easy way to cook salmon I highly recommend keeping a jar of this sauce on hand. By the way, when I first started living on my own decades ago, and cooking for myself, I would buy some fresh fish at the market, put it in the fridge, cook it several days later, and wonder why it never tasted as good as my mother’s. The reason? It was no longer fresh!
Cook Fresh Salmon the Day You Buy It
Now, having been duly trained by my notoriously picky seafood-loving father and my fisherman friends, if I’m buying fresh fish instead of frozen, I cook it the day I buy it. I look for the freshest looking fish at the counter, nothing tired, dull, or remotely fishy smelling. These salmon fillets were the most gorgeous fillets on ice at the market the other day, and the result of the quick broil with a hoisin glaze? Transcendent. Arrange the salmon pieces skin side down (if your fillets still have skin on one side) on the pan and paint with a little more of the marinade. Broil until done, about 5 to 10 minutes, depending on the thickness of the salmon fillets and the heat of your broiler. Serve with steamed rice. Asparagus or Asian Coleslaw would work well as side dishes for this salmon.
