Chef John’s Miso-Glazed Barramundi

Description

This miso-glazed recipe features Barramundi, a mild, flaky, white-fleshed fish that you’ll probably be seeing more and more due to its reputation as a sustainable, eco-friendly seafood. It’s showing up in grocery store frozen seafood cases, and chances are you’ll run across some soon. If you do, buy it and make this recipe.

Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoons yellow miso paste
  • 2 tablespoons seasoned rice vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon brown sugar
  • 1 tablespoon soy sauce
  • 2 (5 ounce) barramundi (Asian sea bass) fillets
  • 1 teaspoon vegetable oil

Instructions

  1. Whisk miso paste
  2. rice vinegar
  3. brown sugar
  4. and soy sauce together in a bowl until glaze is smooth.
  5. Place barramundi fillets
  6. rounded-side up
  7. onto a plate; spread 1/2 of the glaze onto rounded side of fish.
  8. Heat oil over high heat in a nonstick skillet. Place fish
  9. glazed-side down
  10. in hot skillet and spread remaining glaze over other side; cook until slightly white around the edges
  11. 1 to 2 minutes. Flip fish and cook until flaky and white
  12. 1 to 2 minutes more.

Prep Time: 10 mins

Cook Time: 5 mins

Total Time: 15 mins

Servings: 2

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