Asian Salmon Medallions

Delightfully sweet and savory, these salmon medallions stuffed with perfectly seasoned onions please both the eye and palate.

We recently bought some salmon steaks, so I started thinking about how I wanted to eat them. There's always the super easy Garlic Salmon or Teriyaki Salmon or something like that. But I didn't want to "waste" a salmon steak on something I could make with a fillet. Then I thought about restaurant-style salmon steaks where they stuff something in the middle. I never really tried to make anything like those salmon steaks before since I figured it'd just be super complicated or not work at all. Or both! Well, I was wrong.

Making these Salmon Medallions is as simple as chopping some onions, mixing in some parsley, and making the sauce. The hardest part (or rather, the most time consuming part for me was actually removing the bones from the steak, but you can avoid doing that if you buy the de-boned steaks. The only other potentially difficult part might be getting the ends of the salmon to stick together. My salmon steaks held together pretty well without assistance, but you could also tie some string around the salmon to hold it together.

Don't you just love these fancy (looking) yet relatively simple recipes? I know I do!

Asian Salmon Medallions

by CJ Huang

Delightfully sweet and savory, these salmon medallions stuffed with perfectly seasoned onions please both the eye and palate.

Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 20 minutes
Total time: 30 minutes
Yield: 2 servings

Materials:

Mass	Weight	Volume	Number	Material	Notes
			1	onion, diced
		2 tablespoons		green onions, sliced
		2 tablespoons		parsley, dried
			1 clove	garlic, minced
		1 tablespoon		maple syrup
		1 tablespoon		rice vinegar
		1 teaspoon		sesame oil
		1 tablespoon		hoisin sauce
			2	salmon steaks

Methods:

1. Gather all materials.
2. Mix the onion, green onions, parsley, and garlic.
3. Place a handful of the mixture in the middle of the salmon steak and wrap the steak around the mixture.
4. Mix remaining materials and brush over salmon.
5. Bake at 375F until fish done, about 20 minutes.