Dinner · 20 min · Amounts not specified
Salmon teriyaki
Glaze at the end. Fatty fish wants less time than chicken.
The sheet · 2 plates · 20 min
easyWhy tonight. Glaze at the end. Fatty fish wants less time than chicken.
What it needs
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- salmon
- soy sauce
- sugar
- ginger
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: sesame seeds, scallion.
Method
- Reduce the soy, sugar and ginger into a glaze in a separate pan first, until it coats a spoon.
- Sear the salmon skin-side down, dry and unsauced, and leave it alone until the skin releases.
- Glaze only in the last minute. Sugar in the pan from the start burns black long before the fish is done.
- Pull the fish while the center still looks slightly translucent. It finishes on the plate.
Technique coach
What the method is trying to make happen
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The technique underneath this
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Published minimums for what is in this
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- FishKenji's Cooking Show | Miso-Glazed SalmonJ. Kenji López-AltA glazed salmon fillet, and how sugar in the glaze changes what the pan heat can safely be.Link checked 2026-09-08
- FishHow One of NYC’s Best Chefs Cooks Perfect Salmon in 10 Minutes | Made in House | Bon AppétitBon AppétitA professional searing salmon in ten minutes and judging doneness by feel rather than by clock.Link checked 2026-09-08
- FishCarla Makes a Perfectly Crispy-Skinned Fish Fillet | From the Test Kitchen | Bon AppetitBon AppétitCrispy fish skin specifically: how to keep it from welding itself to the pan and tearing.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- salmon
- Fatty enough to forgive a lot, but not overcooking.
- soy sauce
- Salt with a savory backbone, so it seasons and deepens in one move.
- sugar
- Not just sweetness — it balances acid and bitterness, which is why a sour drink and a tomato sauce both want a little.
- ginger
- Bright and hot when raw, mellow and warm when cooked.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
Cooks from the same box
If you bought for this, you can already make these
Shares salmon, soy sauce, ginger
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Maple and soy, ginger. Lacquer at the end so it doesn't burn. The fish should still flake.
Shares soy sauce, sugar, ginger
Chicken teriyaki
Reduce the soy-sugar until it coats. Don't burn it to candy.
Shares ginger, soy sauce, sugar
Yu xiang eggplant
Fish-fragrant without fish: garlic, ginger, vinegar-soy-sugar, chili. Eggplant until it collapses. It should be sweet-hot-savory, not a garlic stir-fry.
Shares soy sauce, ginger
Cold tofu plate
No cook. Cold tofu, a little soy, a lot of scallion. Summer dinner.
Next
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