Teriyaki Salmon

This was a busy cooking day! The plan was baked salmon, but we didn't have any in the freezer, so a trip to Costco led me to some beautifully fatty Copper River salmon fillets. The package I got had 4 servings, and that extra serving (there's 3 people in this house) led me to make 2 other dishes lol.

Ingredients for Teriyaki Baked Salmon:

1 1/2 salmon fillets (1/2 a fillet per person)

6 tablespoons of teriyaki sauce

A drizzle of olive oil to coat the salmon

Salt, garlic, and pepper to taste

I served the salmon with some delicious air fried identity crisis potatoes (I'm not sure if they're home fries or roasted potatoes). I followed the recipe from this youtuber that my family likes to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE5Mr71Zbcg


Start by preheating your oven to 375F, cutting your fillets in half, laying them on a baking sheet, coating them with olive oil, and sprinkling on your garlic, salt, and pepper. Then, spread 2 tablespoons of teriyaki sauce on each fillet half.

Bake for around 20-ish minutes. It will depend on the thickness of your fish. It should be a nice light... salmon... color lol. The fish should also flake easily when you take a fork to it. Serve the fish with whatever side you like, or just by itself.

So... there are four pieces of fish on the sheet, and only three mouths to feed. My plan was to make musubis (A Hawaiian snack using teriyaki salmon, rice, furikake, and nori layered and shaped into an easy to hold brick). Here is a picture of those bricks of goodness.

However... our rice cooker is very old and doesn't like to cook small amounts of rice. After using the small amount of salmon I had, there was still a lot of rice leftover. There is an Indian restaurant here that makes this amazing spiced rice pudding with cashews in it, and I've been trying to replicate it, so I used my extra rice and made it into rice pudding. I seasoned this with cinnamon, vanilla extract, cardamom, and an interesting spice called mace. 
Every time I make rice pudding I get a little closer to the heaven in a bowl the Indian restaurant served. I'll get there one day, I think my next step is to try using less rice to maybe make more of a custard? I wonder if they would give me the recipe if I asked nicely... 

Anyway, that was a lot of cooking! The dinner was great, the musubis going to be yummy snacks for the next few days, and the rice pudding gives me an excuse to have unhealthy breakfasts lol.



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