Quick Miso Salmon with Couscous

This was a quick dinner that took very little time to prepare or cook! Worked perfectly because I came home late and was  hungry/tired.

Quick Miso Salmon with Couscous

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You'll need:

Couscous (this is from the preparations on the box)
1 cup Trader Joe's Whole Wheat Couscous
2 tbs. butter
1 cup water

Miso Salmon
4 Salmon fillets
2 tbs. Miso paste
2 tbs. soy sauce
1/4 cup brown sugar
2 tbs. hot water

Preheat your boiler and make the miso "glaze". Combine everything except the salmon and whisk well. Spread the glaze over the salmon and stick it in the boiler for about 5-10 minutes. The timing depends on how thick your salmon fillets are and how well you like your salmon cooked. Spread more glaze on it halfway through cooking. Be careful to line your sheet with some foil or something because the glaze will burn and it will be a huge hassle to clean!

So my bf works in the same building as Trader Joe's so I had him pick up some of their couscous. He picked the whole wheat small version (see sample picture here) which I ended up loving because it was filling and super easy to make. You boil one cup of water, 2 tbs butter and some salt. Then add 1 cup couscous, stir well and steam for a couple minutes. Fluff it with a fork and you're done!

Improvising part...
Now my bf loves sauce so I decided to make a lot. I used about a cup of water, kept the same 1/4 cup brown sugar, about 2-3 tbs of soy sauce and 3-4 tbs of miso paste. I threw it all in a pan and heated it up so that the brown sugar would melt and glaze. Be careful not to overheat/burn it as it was thicken up a lot from the sugar. I had some really thin salmon pieces that I felt were too thin to put with the others so i cooked those in the "soup" for a minute and they turned out excellent as well.

I placed the couscous on the plate... drizzled some extra miso glaze on it and topped with salmon. Very yummy. We ate it so fast I forgot to take pictures but will do it next time.