Friday, November 19, 2010

Five-Spice-Glazed Salmon with Sesame Green Beans

This meal comes from Fine Cooking. It was delicious and was easy to cut in half. I did use the full amount of green beans and did not weigh the 2 salmon fillets that I had in the freezer. Full recipe serves 4.
Ingredients:
¼ C honey
4 t reduced-sodium soy sauce
1 ½ t five- spice powder
2 large garlic cloves, minced
4 6-oz salmon fillets, with skin on. Mine did not have skin on.
1# slender green beans, trimmed
2 t canola oil
1 t Asian sesame oil
Salt and pepper
2 T toasted sesame seeds
1 t lemon juice
Steps:
1. In a small bowl, whish the honey, soy sauce, five-spice powder, and garlic. Put the salmon skin side down on a large plate and pour the honey mixture over it. Flip the fillets so they are skin side up. Let the fish marinate for 15 minutes at room temperature.
2. Position a rack 6 inches from the broiler and heat the broiler on high. Line a large rimmed baking sheet with foil and coat with cooking spray.
3. In a large bowl, toss the green beans with the canola and sesame oils. Arrange the beans on on half of the prepared baking sheet and season with salt and pepper. Arrange the salmon skin side down on the other half of the baking sheet. Brush the salmon with any remaining marinade from the plate.
4. Broil the salmon and green beans for 3 minutes. Remove the pan from the oven, toss the green beans and reposition the salmon pieces as needed so that they cook evenly. Continue to broil until the salmon is just cooked through and the beans are crisp-tender, 2-3 minutes. Toss the green beans with the sesame seeds and lemon juice and serve.
I served with pre-packaged crescent rolls. My salmon took about 10 minutes under the broiler. The green beans were indeed crisp-tender. I might microwave them to done and then broil to add the color to the outside. I like beans that are less crisp. The marinade on the salmon was excellent.  Aside from easy to cut in half, it is a very fast meal.  We were everywhere today and didn't get home until 6:30 PM.  Poor Max, today was his 9th birthday and he didn't even get his dinner on time.  I did buy him boxes of treats from Trader Joe's and he really seems to like them. 

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