Sesame-Crusted Salmon

Submitted by KitchenManiac

"Great presentation on a plate...something you expect from a fusion restaurant. From Donna Hay's Dining Cookbook."

 

• Ready In: 15mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 4 (720 g) salmon fillets
• 59.14 ml sesame seeds
• 59.14 ml black sesame seed
• 14.79 ml oil

• GREENS

• 1 bunch gai lan, trimmed and halved
• 1 bunch choy sum, trimmed and halved
• 9.85 ml sesame oil
• 14.79 ml shredded ginger
• 44.37 ml oyster sauce
• 29.58 ml low sodium soy sauce
• 14.79 ml sugar
• 44.37 ml Chinese wine or 44.37 ml sherry wine

directions

1. Remove skin from salmon.
2. Combine sesame seeds and place them in a shallow dish.
3. Press both sides of salmon pieces into sesame seeds to form a crust.
4. Place greens in a saucepan of boiling water and cook for 1 minute, then drain.
5. Heat sesame oil in a pan over high heat.
6. Add ginger and cook for 1 minute.
7. Add oyster and soya sauces, sugar and wine, and simmer for 4 minutes or until thickened.
8. Place a frypan over low heat, add oil and place salmon in pan.
9. Cook salmon over low heat for 2-3 minutes on each side or until it is cooked medium-rare.
10. To serve, toss greens in frypan with the simmering sauce and place on serving plates.
11. Top greens with sesame-crusted salmon and serve.

Reviews

[rosslare]

Absolutely perfect! Love the oriental sauce with ginger and oyster sauce.