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Crispy Salmon Rice Bowl

Name: Crispy Salmon Rice Bowl
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 12 min
Total time: 27 min
Yield: 2 servings
Ingredients: 2 salmon fillets (about 170g each), skin ON; 2 cups cooked short-grain or sushi rice, warm; 1 tbsp rice vinegar (to season the rice — optional but worth it); 2 tbsp soy sauce; 1 tbsp honey; 1 tsp grated fresh ginger (optional, for the glaze); 2 tbsp mayonnaise (Kewpie if you have it); 1–2 tsp sriracha, to taste; 1 ripe avocado, sliced; 1/2 cucumber, thinly sliced; 1 tsp toasted sesame seeds; 2 scallions, thinly sliced; 1 tbsp neutral oil; Salt

Glazed crispy-skin salmon over warm rice with avocado, cucumber, and spicy mayo. The skin crisps like a chip if you dry it well, start it in a hot pan, and have the patience not to move it.

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Servings2

Prep15 min

Cook12 min

Total27 min

Ingredients

Instructions

1
Take the salmon out of the fridge 15 minutes ahead, and pat it aggressively dry with paper towels — especially the skin. Then salt the skin side and let it sit 5 minutes; the salt pulls out more surface moisture. Pat dry AGAIN. Dry skin is crispy skin; damp skin is rubber.
2
While the salmon sits, stir the rice vinegar into the warm rice, mix the soy sauce, honey, and ginger in a small bowl for the glaze, and stir the sriracha into the mayo. Slice the avocado and cucumber.
3
Heat the oil in a nonstick or well-seasoned pan over medium-high until it shimmers and flows like water when you tilt the pan.
4
Lay the fillets in skin-side DOWN, laying them away from you. They will buckle immediately — press each one flat with a spatula for the first 20–30 seconds until they relax. This keeps the whole skin surface in contact with the pan.
5
Now don't touch them. Cook 4–6 minutes on the skin side — about 70% of the total cooking — until you can see the flesh turning opaque from the bottom up the sides. If you try to lift the fillet and the skin resists, it isn't crisp yet; it will release on its own when it's ready.
6
Flip and cook just 1–2 minutes on the flesh side, until the salmon is blushing pink and barely flakes in the thickest part (52–54°C / 125–130°F for medium). It keeps cooking off the heat — overdone salmon is chalky.
7
Turn the heat to low and pour the soy-honey glaze into the pan around the fish. It will bubble and thicken in 30–60 seconds; spoon it over the fillets a few times, then pull the pan off before the honey scorches.
8
Divide the warm rice between two bowls. Break each fillet into large glossy flakes right in the pan — skin and all, it's the best part — and pile onto the rice.
9
Fan the avocado and cucumber alongside, drizzle every remaining drop of pan glaze over the fish, then zig-zag the spicy mayo across the whole bowl.
10
Finish with sesame seeds and scallions. Eat immediately while the skin still crackles.

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