Simply Ming: Easy Techniques for East-Meets-West Meals

Soy-Kaffir Lime Glazed Salmon with Lime Sushi Rice
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Recipe Review
Zosia from Toronto, ON
This dish is flavoured with one of Ming’s master recipes, the soy-kaffir lime syrup. My batch ended up being quite salty with a strong caramel flavour so I didn’t salt the salmon and used the glaze sparingly. In fact, I was so uncertain about how this dish would taste, I used it only on my fillet and used this soy-maple glaze on the others.
I cooked the rice using the author’s method which called for more water than I normally use; it turned out a little gummy. I added lime juice to taste - 1 lime for ~4 cups cooked rice - instead of the recipe amount.
All of the components eaten together were actually quite good: the intense flavour of the syrup was diluted by the richness of the salmon and the tangy but bland rice, and it provided the salt for the dish. The lack of real lime flavour, however, was a disappointment.
Ming compares this dish to teriyaki salmon – I think a good brand of store-bought teriyaki sauce would give equal or even better results.
Comments
Queezle_Sister - 20th November 2012
Too bad this wasn't better!
Was it difficult to find Kaffir Lime leaves?
Zosia - 21st November 2012
The Asian grocers around here all seem to carry frozen, which is what I used and Whole Foods has dried but I have yet to find fresh.
I bought them in the summer for a Thai dish I never made so this was my first time using them.
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