Recipe: Perfect Salt-Grilled Saba with frying pan

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Salt-Grilled Saba with frying pan. Cover a frying pan with aluminum foil. Grate Daikon radish, and set aside. Cut each fillet of mackerel in half.

Salt-Grilled Saba with frying pan Saba (鯖) is mackerel and Shioyaki (塩焼き) means salt (shio) and grilling (yaki). As you can guess, the only. Saba fish (also known as mackerel!) are great for grilling or pan frying as they have a good amount of fat content. You can have Salt-Grilled Saba with frying pan using 3 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Salt-Grilled Saba with frying pan

  1. You need 4 of fillets Saba.
  2. Prepare 1 of % salt of fish weight.
  3. Prepare 2 tbsp of Sake (Japanese cooking wine).

Give this simple recipe a try, if you don't have a hot plate just stir fry the sliced onions along with the sauce in a pan and add the crispy Saba fillets on top when serving. Alternatively, you can of course grill the fish over a frying pan greased with a little oil if you don't have an oven. Either way, the fish will still crisp up nicely and be as tasty. Coat the fish in a plate filled with sake.

Salt-Grilled Saba with frying pan instructions

  1. Thaw it completely in the refrigerator when using frozen Saba..
  2. Start preparation 30 minutes before grilling the Saba fish. Use kitchen towels to wipe the Saba dry..
  3. Sprinkle the salt onto the Saba from about 50 cm above. Do the same on the other side of the Saba. (If the Saba weight 400 grams, use 4 grams salt.) Wrap and keep it in refrigerator for 20 - 30 minutes..
  4. Lightly oil the entire frying pan with a kitchen towel. Put the Saba in the frying pan with skin-side down..
  5. Heat the frying pan with low heat. Sprinkle the Sake. Cover and steam cook for 4 minutes..
  6. Turn over and cook with lid for 4 minutes more..

Saba Shiyoyaki is a popular grilled mackerel dish often served in Izakayas (Japanese style pubs serving drinks and food). Saba is Japanese for Mackerel and Shiyoyaki literally means salt-grilled or fried. Saba is a syrupy condiment from Italy made from reduced unfermented grape juice. Balsamic vinegar is a good substitution if reduced until slightly syrupy. Prepare a medium-high gas or charcoal grill fire.