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Miso Butter Salmon and Vegetable Packets
There are numerous approaches to making chan chan yaki, a Japanese dish of salmon and vegetables flavored with miso and butter. The dish originates in Hokkaido, but we learned the version that inspired this recipe at Kermis, a stamp-sized restaurant in Tokyo. Chef-owners Yasunobu and Yuko Namiki enclosed salmon fillets, vegetables and a few seasonings, including miso, in foil, then baked the packets. Once out of the oven, the fish and veggies were dotted with butter and allowed to rest until a brothy, rich sauce pooled in each packet. We use two types of mushrooms: meaty shiitakes and bouncy beech mushrooms. If you can’t find beech mushrooms—they’re sometimes sold in 3½-ounce packages and might be labeled “hon shimeji”—simply up the shiitakes to 12 ounces. The salmon, vegetables and sauce in each foil packet are transferred to individual bowls for serving.
4
Servings
Don’t forget to allow the seasoned salmon to stand at room temperature while the salted vegetables wilt and as the oven heats. Refrigerator-cold fillets can throw off the cooking time by a large margin. Also, use caution when opening the packets, as there is a good amount of steam trapped within.
1 hour
30 minutes active
Ingredients
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4
6 ounce center-cut salmon fillets (1 to 1¼ inches thick)
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Kosher salt and ground white pepper
Directions
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01Season the salmon fillets with salt and white pepper; let stand at room temperature until ready to use. In a large bowl, toss together the cabbage, both types of mushrooms, the cut scallions and 1 teaspoon salt, gently rubbing the salt into the vegetables until they begin to feel moist. Let stand 15 minutes, tossing occasionally. Meanwhile, heat the oven to 325°F with a rack in the middle position. In a small bowl, whisk the soy, mirin, sake, miso and sugar.