Crispy Bang Bang Salmon w Cucumber & Open Sesame
Ingredients
Spicy Salmon Glaze:
- 1/2 cup shallots, peeled and rougly chopped
- 2 Tbsp ginger, peeled and roughly chopped
- 2 Tbsp gochujang paste
- 2 Tbsp fish sauce
- 1 Tbsp rice wine vinegar
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup water
Cucumber Salad:
- 1 cucumber
- handful fresh mint, roughly chopped
- handful coriander or basil, rougly chopped
- 1/3 cup Al Brown's Open Sesame Japanese Dressing
Crispy Salmon:
- 500g Regal Salmon Fillets, cut into 3cm cubes
- canola oil
- 1 1/2 cups rice flour
- 1 1/2 cups corn flour
- 1 Tbsp rice wine vinegar
- 1 Tbsp soy sauce
- 4 eggs
To Serve:
- Al Brown’s Ginger Ninja Lime Syrup
Method
Spicy Salmon Glaze
- Place all the ingredients into a food processor and blitz into a paste.
- Pour into a small saucepan, place on medium-low heat and simmer for approximately 10 minutes until thickened. Refrigerate until required.
Cucumber Salad
- Slice the cucumber down the middle, remove the seeds, and cut into thin strips using a mandoline.
- Place in a bowl and add the mint, coriander or basil, and Open Sesame dressing. Mix and refrigerate until required.
Crispy Salmon
- Add the canola oil to the deep fryer and heat to 170-180°C. If you don’t have a deep fryer, add oil to a heavy-duty skillet or saucepan to shallow fry.
- Add the rice flour and cornflour to a bowl and mix.
- In a separate bowl, whisk the eggs together with the rice wine vinegar and soy sauce.
- A few pieces at a time, dust the salmon in the flour mix, dip in the egg mixture, then return to the flour for a second coating.
- Once the oil reaches temperature, cook the salmon pieces in batches for a couple of minutes until golden.
- Place the crispy salmon in a bowl, add some of the spicy salmon glaze and toss until lightly coated.
- To serve, portion the cucumber salad onto plates and top with the crispy, glazed salmon. Complete with a drizzle of Ginger Ninja Lime Syrup.