Make the best miso salmon recipe the easiest way possible – sous vide! My favorite way to cook salmon and it will taste better than you could ever imagine!
Get ready for some gushing here friends. If you’re not into that sort of outpouring of emotion, feel free to scroll to the bottom of the post where you’ll find the best recipe for salmon I’ve ever had!
Some of the nurses at work were talking about sous vide a few months ago. I’d only briefly heard the term before so I started asking questions. They basically gave me a sous vide 101 course – it’s a way to cook food at a lower temperature, which helps to preserve moisture and elevate flavors in a way that can’t be achieved with high heat cooking.
Turns out, you can make almost anything with a sous vide. The nurses talked about eggs (the perfect, most consistent way to soft boil an egg with perfectly runny yolks!), all sorts of meat, and even fruits and veggies! The benefit of cooking fruits and vegetables with a sous vide is that lower temps (even if that means longer cook times) help to retain the vitamins and nutrients in them.
About the same time I got all these tips from the nurses, I happened to meet the founders of Nomiku, a local startup, at a San Francisco craft fair. Their goal was to make a better sous vide – one that was accessible to the casual home cook. Previously a sous vide cost several hundred dollars and often was a big bulky unit that was impractical for those of us living in tiny city apartments.
I have the first generation model, but the folks at Nomiku just finished another successful kickstarter and are coming out with a wi-fi enabled sous vide that will allow you to change the temperature or timer on it while you’re on the go.
For example, you can set your Nomiku at pasteurizing temp (to prevent bacteria from growing) for a steak and then increase the temperature to cook it when you’re stuck in traffic and an hour away from home! You’ll walk in the door to perfectly cooked steak. It will also be less expensive then the original model.
One of my first sous vide attempts was this amazing miso salmon recipe for a stay at home date night with Pat. I couldn’t believe how easy this was to make. All you have to do is whip up the marinade and the sous vide immersion circulator does the rest of the work. This is a whole new way for us to eat salmon – it’s beyond tender and was perfectly cooked evenly throughout the fillets. It was SO moist! Hence the gushing.
With Valentine’s day coming up, this would be a great recipe to consider if you want to avoid the dog-and-pony show of going out to celebrate. We’ll definitely be repeating it soon. And making lots of soft boiled eggs!
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PrintThe Best Miso Salmon for Two
Up your salmon game by cooking it sous vide style! This method seals in all of the flavor and lets you cook your salmon to perfection every time! It’s a great Valentine’s recipe for two.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 23 minutes
- Total Time: 33 minutes
- Yield: 2 1x
- Category: Main
- Method: Sous Vide
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons white miso
- 1/4 cup rice vinegar
- 1 tablespoon minced scallions, plus more for serving
- 1 tablespoons minced ginger
- 1 teaspoons peanut oil
- 2 6-ounce salmon fillets, with skin on (skinless is ok too)
- 1/2 teaspoon sesame seeds
- lemon wedges, for serving
Special Equipment:
- Sous Vide (I used the Nomiku Sous Vide and Immersion Circulator)
Instructions
- Mix the miso, vinegar, scallions, ginger and oil in a small bowl and mix until combined.
- Clip the Nomiku onto a stock pot or large heat-proof, food-grade container and set your Nomiku or sous vide to 43C or 109.4F.
- Rinse the salmon and pat dry.
- Put the salmon in food grade bag with the miso marinade and vacuum seal the bag. You can also use a ziplock bag with the Nomiku. To do this, put the salmon in the bag. Don’t seal the bag. Submerge the bag up to one inch from the top in water. This will force the air out of the bag, then you can seal the ziplock and this will be similar to a vacuum seal.
- Once the sous vide is at temperature, put the bag into cook for 20 minutes.
- Remove the bag from the stockpot and slice it open, reserving the remaining marinade liquid. Heat the liquid in a small saucepan on medium-low for about 3 minutes, until it coats a spoon.
- Spoon miso sauce over salmon and serve with rice. Garnish with extra scallions and sesame seeds.
Tips: If making a larger quantity of this recipe, use two fillets per vacuum seal bag or ziplock bag.
Notes
Adapted from Nomiku Sous Vide Primer
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Thanks for Nomiku for providing this sous vide immersion circulator for me to review! As always all thoughts are my own.
YES! Sous vide is the best and what an awesome product that they developed!
🙂 I agree completely!
Yum this looks really good! I’ve never had any of this before, I bet it’s amazing!
This looks amazing! And you’re right it’s perfect for Valentine’s Day. I gotta look up more sous vide recipes, what a fun way to cook!
I know! I’m just getting started and have so many more I want to try!
I am so excited about this one. Salmon is one of my favorite foods (I could literally eat it everyday, for all meals, and be thrilled). I’m always looking for new ways to cook and flavor it!
Leah
Awesome! I hope you can try it this way! I feel the same way about salmon.
You’re brave to cook fish sous vide. I could never get over the texture lol. I love eggs and veg sous vide, though.
I have to try veggies. There are so many things to do sous vide!
Ah wow, I really love salmon. Especially love it when it is cooked to perfection, makes all the difference!
that looks like an incredible recipe thanks so much for the inspo. I have just got hold of some black rice so will look forward to maybe trying it out with some salmon
Rosie
http://www.rosedogandco.blogspot.com.au
Oh nice! Black rice is such a pretty addition to so many dishes!
I love salmon and have never cooked with miso before-it’s always intimidated me! Thanks for sharing!
I promise it’s super easy and so flavorful!
This sounds amazing. I so need to try it for sure.
Im not a big fish girl but mmmmm this looks so good! I will have to try it!
It looks beautiful but I’m not fan of salmon.
I’ve never heard of sous vide before, but it looks like a great way to cook! Thanks for sharing!
Wow. I love salmon, so I’m always looking for new ways to prepare it. Thanks so much for this.
No prob! Hope you can try it for yourself!
That looks delicious I love salmon dishes, unfortunately my husband does not though!
Bummer! Maybe when he has other plans you could make a fillet for yourself! It’s so easy and doesn’t take a ton of time!
Mmmm! It looks really delicious and you photographed it so beautifully. I love a bit of Salmon!
Thanks Brenda!
Ahh, that looks delicious!
oh my, your are awesome to try sous vide, and the black rice, yummy!
This sounds amazing! I love salmon and have always wanted to try sous vide! Looks delicious and I love the miso sauce too!
Thanks Kelly! I bet you could do so many amazing things with a sous vide!
Oh wow so jealous of that sammon, I need to buy some today after work. Thanks for sharing, love the picture quality too.
Thanks Mia!
You welcome
PS – manage to buy me some salmon happy days lol
I love salmon and trying new recipes for it sounds fun!
This looks like such a professional dish and so delicious. Very talented!
Katie <3
Thanks Katie!
Oh, Kelly how did you know I loved salmon… lol.. great recipe, thanks for sharing
🙂 I’m a mind reader!
I have never tried sous vide! How awesome to know there is a more accessible option available- with upgrades coming soon!
Exactly! The new model is giving me FOMO I think.
I was way too hungry while reading this post! My stomach actually growled. Haha. I love your attention to detail in this dish! Beautiful pics as well. Thank you!
Awww, thanks so much! I really appreciate it!
I would love to try a version of this with grilled tofu! And black rice, how interesting!
Rae | love from berlin
I bet it would be delicious!
This looks and sounds like something I would order out! I can’t wait to try it!
Awesome!
I haven’t tried making Miso Salmon before. Sounds great! I would love a sous vide machine too! Thanks for the info!
No problem Debi! Hope you get to try it!
ooh, yum! This looks absolutely perfect!