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Salmon Teriyaki is an easy Japanese recipe and takes only 4 key ingredients. Serve the salmon with steamed rice and teriyaki sauce for a delicious salmon teriyaki bowl.

Salmon Teriyaki - moist and juicy pan-seared salmon with teriyaki sauce. This easy salmon teriyaki recipe takes only 4 ingredients | rasamalaysia.com

Salmon teriyaki bowl with moist and juicy pan-seared salmon with teriyaki sauce. This easy salmon teriyaki recipe takes only 4 ingredients.

How To Make Teriyaki Salmon?

I cook salmon on a weekly basis because it is healthy and rich with omega-3 fatty acids, protein and low in calories. Salmon is delicious and healthy, such as this easy salmon teriyaki recipe.

The recipe calls for only four (4) basic ingredients: salmon, soy sauce, mirin, sugar and it’s cooked a skillet on stove top. It’s an easy recipe, just like everyone’s favorite chicken teriyaki.

Salmon teriyaki in a Japanese bowl and served with a pair of chopsticks.

Salmon on Stove

I love to pan-fry salmon (skin side down) on the stove top. Use a pan or skillet (non-stick preferred) until the skin becomes super crispy. Use low to medium heat on the stove to cook the salmon.

Cover the skillet so the entire fish is cooked through. The end result is moist, tender, perfectly cooked salmon on stove that is bursting with natural sweetness.

Drizzle the teriyaki sauce on top of the salmon to make salmon teriyaki rice bowl.

Teriyaki Sauce

Homemade teriyaki sauce is the best and you need only 3 ingredients: soy sauce, mirin (Japanese sweet rice wine) and sugar. Soy sauce is the main ingredient; you can’t make teriyaki sauce without it.

You can get mirin at Japanese or Asian stores. You can also buy it online. Cook the teriyaki sauce mixture on low heat in a sauce pan until it thickens.

Salmon teriyaki is a Japanese recipe that you can cook on stove top, in a skillet.

What Vegatables to Serve with Teriyaki Salmon

I love serving boiled broccoli florets with the salmon. Assemble a rice bowl by filling the bowl with steamed rice, place the salmon on top of the rice, and then drizzle the teriyaki sauce on top.

The rice bowl will make a complete and nutritious meal for lunch or dinner. It’s also great as a bento to school or work.

What Dishes to Serve with this Recipe?

This meal is best served with steamed rice. For a wholesome Japanese meal and easy weeknight dinner, I recommend the following recipes.

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    Salmon Teriyaki Recipe

    Salmon Teriyaki is an easy Japanese recipe and takes only 4 key ingredients. Serve the salmon with steamed rice and teriyaki sauce for a delicious salmon teriyaki bowl.

    Course Main Course
    Cuisine Japanese
    Keyword Salmon Teriyaki
    Prep Time
    Cook Time
    Total Time
    Servings 2 people
    Calories 532 kcal
    Author

    Ingredients

    Ingredients:

    • 1 lb salmon fillet
    • 1 tablespoon oil
    • white and black sesame seeds, for garnishing

    Teriyaki Sauce:

    • 3 tablespoons soy sauce or Tamari
    • 1/2 cup mirin
    • 2 tablespoons sugar

    Instructions

    1. Add all the ingredients in the Teriyaki Sauce in a saucepan and reduce it on low heat. As soon as the teriyaki sauce thickens, remove it from heat. Let cool.
    2. Heat up a pan or skillet over low to medium heat. Add a bit of oil and pan-sear the salmon (skin-side down) until the bottom part becomes super crispy. Cover the pan or skillet to make sure that the salmon is cooked through. Remove the salmon from heat, drizzle with the teriyaki sauce and garnish with the sesame. Serve immediately with steamed rice.
    Nutrition Facts
    Salmon Teriyaki Recipe
    Amount Per Serving (2 people)
    Calories 532 Calories from Fat 189
    % Daily Value*
    Total Fat 21g 32%
    Saturated Fat 8g 40%
    Cholesterol 125mg 42%
    Sodium 2059mg 86%
    Potassium 1169mg 33%
    Total Carbohydrates 38g 13%
    Dietary Fiber 1g 4%
    Sugars 26g
    Protein 48g 96%
    Vitamin A 1.8%
    Calcium 3.3%
    Iron 13.7%
    * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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    1. I roasted the salmon instead of pan searing it, the teriyaki sauce is super delicious 😋 I just doubled the recipe!

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    2. I LOVELOVELOVE this. Hands down my favorite salmon recipe. My husband always requests that I make this for dinner! Thanks so much for an awesome recipe.

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    4. Very nice easy teriyaki sauce. Salmon was delicious as well. Second time making it tonight for a guest. Serving it with brown rice, sautéed baby Bok Choy, and for dessert ? panna cotta with macerated berries in sweet wine.

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    5. I don’t know what I did wrong. I did everything step by step and the teriyaki never thickened and the salmon came out horrible.

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    6. Hi! I want to tell you about my experience of making teriyaki salmon, This experience is awesome my family and my kids love the way that I make teriyaki salmon and the taste was too yummy. Thanks, guys for making my day awesome.

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    7. I also had a hard time reducing the sauce enough. I let it reduce on medium heat for more than 30 minutes, and it was still a thin liquid. Tastes nice, just didn’t get the right consistency.

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    10. After the skin gets crispy do you flip the salmon? I don’t mean to sound stupid but most of the recipes say “cook for 5-7 minutes each side. I’m not a fish lover but I’m learning to like it. Thanks

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    11. Hi there :)

      I follow you all the way from Australia :) I don’t know if it’s because our ingridients are different here but I’ve tried two recipes of yours and both of them didn’t turn out 100%. Bear in mind I’m a really bad cook lol. The teriyaki sauce didn’t thicken for me, I had it on the stove for a while. I used two tablespoons of white caster sugar.

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    13. Hi there! I really loved the recipe from 2010 but can’t find it now. Is there a reason you changed it? Is it possible to send the original recipe to me? I wish I had written it down!

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    14. Just made it. We are all here mad about salmon.
      That was the best salmon recipe ever!
      Next time (which will be very soon ) I will reduce the sauce more
      Thank you

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    15. Looks delicious! You mention putting the lid on the skillet to ensure its cooked through. Do you mean to put the lid on when the skillet comes off heat or during the entire cook?

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    18. I cooked the teriyaki chicken which you posted recently and I noted then that the teriyaki sauce should be made as close as possible to when the chicken is done. Because I made the sauce before the chicken was ready, it had become thick when it cooled and had stuck to the saucepan and could not be drizzled over the chicken.I had to reheat the sauce in order to use it. I should imagine that it will be the same for this salmon teriyaki so perhaps your readers should be alerted to this fact.

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    20. How come this teriyaki sauce is different from the chicken teriyaki sauce i thought that was equal parts soy, sugar and mirin. Is this a lighter sauce for the salmon.

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    23. Okay, this just looks delicious and super healthy. Who needs Spanx? I mean, I love all those cupcake recipes I see online, but at the end of the day, I’m gonna act rational and eat this. Teriyaki is HUGE with my kids.

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