How to Broil Salmon

Broiling salmon is easy once you have the equipment and a bit of know-how.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Salmon and receipe ingredients
• Broiler pan lined with aluminum foil
• Spatula to remove hot salmon to the plate
• Oven gloves, tongs or kitchen towels to get broiler pan from the oven

1. Prepare and marinate the salmon. Slice the salmon filets into serving pieces if they have not been cut by the fish monger. Marinade can be as simple as plain lemon juice or a combination of ingredients as follows:
   
   6 Pcs salmon filet
   3 Tb. Olive oil.
   2 Tb. Fresh garlic, Grated.
   2 Tb. Fresh ginger, grated.
   1 Tb. soy sauce.
   1 Tb. Mirin (Japanese cooking wine).
   1 Tsp. Sesame oil.
   Salt and black pepper to taste.
   
   Place salmon in a non reactive container, mix marinade ingredients and pour over the fish, making sure to get pieces of garlic and ginger oneach portion. Cover with plastic wrap and allow to marinate up to 1 1/2 hours.
2. Preheat oven to broil. Place salmon onto foil lined broiler tray and pour remaining marinade over salmon.
3. Place broiler tray with salmon under broiler and allow to broil about 7-9 minutes depending upon desired degree of done ness.
4. Remove broiler tray to heat proof surface and place salmon on plates, leaving any marinade on the foil to cool for easy disposal.

Tips & Warnings

• Salmon filets are usually 1 to 1 1/2 inches thick. If the ginger and garlic pieces seem to blacken during the process, don't worry, they will taste wonderful. Timing is based upon thickness of the fish. Make sure to turn off oven after removing salmon from broiler.
• Make sure the fish is not to close to the heat source. If there is a lot of smoke you have not seen to this.