Well folks I am back, the craziness of getting back into university mode has past and now I can settle into my routine for the next 11 weeks or so. Speaking of being back to university I am returning to my student grocery budget, no more care free days of grocery shopping with my Mom's money in hand. Needless to say when the recipe required wild salmon which is pretty pricy I turned to my freezer and found some salmon fillets of origin unknown. I don't think I have ever eaten wild salmon before and I am curious about the differences between it and its farmed cousin. While on the subject of buying salmon it is important to note that frozen is many times better than fresh, depending on where you live. If you reside in a place like Vancouver the fresh seafood should be plentiful but for those of us in places like Ontario fresh seafood has a long journey ahead of it. Apparently grocery stores will even thaw frozen fish and pass it off as fresh, so be weary. Where frozen seafood is usually flash frozen on the boat it was caught on. All this said I am no connoisseur of salmon and the difference may be minimal, in the long run I just find frozen seafood a lot more convenient.Time for the recipe, and it is a simple one. Only 5 ingredients: salmon (I'm sure you figured as much), salt, pepper, brown sugar and lemon zest. Everything but the salmon its mixed and put on top of the fish. 45 minutes should be allowed from the glaze to rest. I didn't have quite that long and it still turned out really good. I would say you could get away with as little as 10 minutes. Then just plop it under the broiler (or toaster oven) for about 8 minutes and that's it. The 1/2 teaspoon of pepper made it a lot spicier than I was expecting, so I would maybe drop that down to about 1/4 teaspoons. My favourite thing about the glaze is that all the ingredients blend together nicely and no flavour really dominants the palette, I should note some of this flavour blending my be lost if the rest period is too short.
Verdict: would make again. Fast and delicious, what else could you ask for?
Broiled Sockeye Salmon with Citrus Glaze
