Category Archives: Korean

Korean food is a cuisine that I love. However, I have to admit to not cooking it a lot myself, until now!  The best Korean food we have ever had was in New York City when the two of us sat at a four person table, completely covered with ‘side dishes’ that automatically came with the meal 🙂

This year I am going to try to cook a lot more Korean and Japanese food in both the combi and steam ovens and as I’m always on the lookout for salmon dishes this fits the bill perfectly.

This recipe has been prepared for all of you who have the newer models of combi steam ovens that have a top grill element or more precisely a Fan grill combination mode.  If you don’t have a top element in your combi like me then you can still cook this dish except you won’t get that deep caramelised browning you would expect.  You can see this from the photo.

Make sure you take your salmon out of the refrigerator to bring it to room temperature about 30 minutes before cooking otherwise you will need to cook it for longer.

Ingredients:  Serves 2

2 salmon fillets with skin on, cut in 2cm strips lengthwise (a great way to divide up those fillets that are way too big for one person)

Marinade:
1½ tablespoons light soy sauce
2 teaspoons of Mirin
juice half a lime or lemon
1 tablespoon honey
1 clove garlic, crushed
2 teaspoons grated ginger

Method:

1. Mix all marinade ingredients together, stirring to dissolve honey.
2. Slice salmon leaving skin on.  The skin will hold the salmon together.
3. Marinate in a flat dish in one layer for at least one hour.  Turn half way.
4. While the salmon is marinating cook some steam oven rice here adding vegetables of your choice in with the rice towards the end of the cooking time.
5. Remove the rice and vegetables and set aside.  Wipe out the steam oven and preheat the oven to 200°C.  I have found that you do need to preheat when cooking very quick-cooking items.
6. Cover the flat baking tray with baking paper.  Lay the salmon slices out in a single layer on top.
7. Switch the combi to Fan grill 200°C + 85% steam, add the salmon fillets in the upper part of the combi and cook for 3-5 minutes.  This will depend on how you like your salmon cooked, its size and temperature.
8. Serve with steamed rice, green vegetables and purchased Korean kimchi.