Pacific Rim Salmon

Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr 15 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1/2 cup soy sauce
• 1/2 cup rice vinegar
• 2 -3 cloves garlic, to your taste,minced
• 2 tablespoons firmly packed brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons hoisin sauce
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 2 teaspoons sesame seeds, toasted
• 1/2 teaspoon lemon pepper
• 2 1/2 lbs salmon fillets, with skin on
• 2 teaspoons black sesame seeds, toasted for garnish (optional)

Recipe

• 1 in a small bowl, combine soy sauce, vinegar, garlic, brown sugar, hoisin sauce, ginger, sesame seeds and lemon pepper.
• 2 pour over the salmon in a shallow glass dish.
• 3 cover and let marinate for 1 hour in the refrigerator.
• 4 before preparing a hot fire, spray grill grate with non-stick cooking spray.
• 5 grill the salmon, flesh side down first, directly on the grill grate, for about 5 minutes.
• 6 using both a wide metal fish spatula and a grill spatula, carefully turn the fillet over onto the skin side and grill for another 5 minutes, until a milky juice appears on top of the thickest part of the fillet.
• 7 serve immediately, sprinkled with the black sesame seeds.