Vietnamese
Vietnamese Caramel Salmon
Vietnamese Caramel Salmon is Vietnamese home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1.75 lb salmon fillets
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 3 tbsp fish sauce
- 3 shallots
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1 tbsp grated ginger
- 3 scallions
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1 tbsp neutral oil
- 4 cups cooked jasmine rice
How to cook it
- Melt the sugar with 2 tbsp water in a wide pan over medium heat and let it cook, swirling, into an amber caramel, about 5 minutes.
- Carefully add 1/2 cup water and the fish sauce, standing back as it bubbles, then stir until smooth.
- Add the oil, sliced shallots, garlic, and ginger and simmer 2 minutes.
- Nestle the salmon pieces into the sauce, spoon it over the top, and season with black pepper.
- Cover and simmer gently, basting once, until the salmon is just cooked and glazed, about 10 minutes.
- Scatter with scallions and serve over the jasmine rice.
Serve it with
A Vietnamese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Vietnamese Caramel Salmon, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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Something to sip
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Vietnamese Caramel Salmon carries fish. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Lemongrass Tofu Stir-Fry |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Grains and Meat or fish
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Vietnamese Caramel Salmon takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on salmon, caramel, and shallot.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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