Salmon Grill Packets

12 ingredients
12 steps

Ingredients

  • 1 cup couscous, cooked*
  • 13 cup roasted cashews, chopped
  • 5 scallions (3 chopped, 2 cut into matchsticks for garnish)
  • 1 orange, juice and rind of, grated
  • 14 cup dry sherry
  • 2 12 tablespoons soy sauce
  • 2 12 teaspoons mirin (sweetened rice wine)
  • 1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil, plus more for brushing
  • 1 12 tablespoons fresh ginger, grated
  • 4 cups Baby Spinach
  • 24 ounces salmon fillets
  • salt and pepper, to taste

Directions

  1. 1
    Preheat your gas grill.
  2. 2
    In a small bowl, combine couscous*, cashews, chopped scallions and orange peel; set aside.
  3. 3
    In a measuring cup, whisk together the orange juice, sherry, soy sauce, mirin, 1 tblsp sesame oil, and the ginger; set aside.
  4. 4
    Tear off four 2-foot-long sheets of heavy duty foil and fold each in half to form a rectangle; brush with sesame oil.
  5. 5
    Divide the couscous mixture evenly among the 4 rectangles and top each pile with 1 cup baby spinach and a fish filet; season with salt and pepper.
  6. 6
    Fold the edges of the foil up and inward to start forming a packet.
  7. 7
    Whisk the grilling sauce and pour about 1/4 cup into each packet.
  8. 8
    Roll up the edges of the foil together to seal.
  9. 9
    Grill the packets over indirect medium heat, with the lid down, for 25 minutes.
  10. 10
    let the fish rest for 3 minutes before opening the packets.
  11. 11
    Garnish with the remaining scallion matchsticks.
  12. 12
    * note the recipe in the magazine did not specify cooked couscous, but there just doesn't seem to be enough liquid to cook the couscous on the grill in the packet, I may try it that way the first time and update this recipe!

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