Roasted Salmon in Foil (Sake no hoiru yaki)
Sake no hoiru yaki is one of my favorite main dishes. I like roasted cooking because it is simple but looks fancy. This dish is great because you can have both protein from salmon and any other nutritious things in vegetables. The best thing to roast in foil is you can put all the smells and tastes of food into it, which makes food rich and palatable. Sake is not an alcoholic beverage but salmon, a fish kind (same pronunciation different kanji character), hoiru is foil, and yaki means any type of technique of cooking with heat in Japanese. So it is literally roasted salmon wrapped with foil.
What you put in foil with salmon is your choice. you can explore with some vegetables you like and make your own original roasted salmon in foil, I personally love mushrooms and they smell good. Here in Japan, we have lots of different kinds of mushrooms so I sometimes even put more than 2 kinds of mushrooms. Experiment with your cooking and find your unique recipe.
This dish is easy to cook and has simple seasoning. In this recipe, you need 7 ingredients below, salmon fillet, onion, shimeji mushrooms, butter, cooking sake, salt and pepper.
- 1 Salmon fillet
- 1/4 Onions
- 30 g Shimeji mushrooms
- 5 g Butter
- 1 tsp Cooking sake
- 1 pinch Krazy Mixed-Up Salt
- 1 pinch Black pepper
- Preparation
Get all the ingredients and condiments. Preheat the oven to 280℃/536℉.
- Cut vegetables
Cut onions into wedges cut off the end of shimeji mushrooms and split them into small pieces.
- Wrapped ingredients with foil
Put the onions underneath on the foil first, and put a salmon fillet on the onions. Spread shimeji mushrooms on top. Add cooking sake to the whole salmon fillet and sprinkle salt and pepper. Wrap it up.
- Roast the salmon
Roast in the oven for 15 minutes.
- Dish up
Open the foil and put a slice of butter.
-Lemon and green onions are great garnishes to go with salmon. Squeeze the lemon and sprinkle some green onion if you’d like.
