Vietnamese
Vietnamese Caramel Salmon
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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
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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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.
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Carefully add 1/2 cup water and the fish sauce, standing back as it bubbles, then stir until smooth.
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Add the oil, sliced shallots, garlic, and ginger and simmer 2 minutes.
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Nestle the salmon pieces into the sauce, spoon it over the top, and season with black pepper.
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Cover and simmer gently, basting once, until the salmon is just cooked and glazed, about 10 minutes.
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Scatter with scallions and serve over the jasmine rice.
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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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The cooked vegetable
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
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Something cool and fresh
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 | Banh Mi Op La (Baguette with Fried Eggs) |
| 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
- 470 kcal
- Protein
- 30 g
- Carbs
- 42 g
- Fat
- 20 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 12 g
- Sodium
- 650 mg
- Saturated fat
- 4 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
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.
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