Japanese
Saba Shioyaki (Salt-Grilled Mackerel)
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Saba Shioyaki (Salt-Grilled Mackerel) is Japanese home cooking, eaten at breakfast and 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
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Salt the mackerel fillets on both sides and let them sit at least 20 minutes.
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Pat dry and grill or broil skin-side up until the skin browns and the flesh flakes easily, about 4 minutes per side.
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Grate the daikon and squeeze out a little of its liquid.
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Serve the mackerel with grated daikon and a few drops of soy sauce.
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Serve it with
A Japanese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Saba Shioyaki (Salt-Grilled Mackerel), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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Something to sip
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
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. Saba Shioyaki (Salt-Grilled Mackerel) 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 | Asa Sarada (Morning Cabbage and Corn Salad) |
| 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
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 410 kcal
- Protein
- 33 g
- Carbs
- 2 g
- Fat
- 30 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 480 mg
- Saturated fat
- 7 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Saba Shioyaki (Salt-Grilled Mackerel) takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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