Recipe: Yummy Grilled Sanma

Grilled Sanma. A classic Japanese fall dish, grilled Sanma (pacific saury) is cooked whole over hot charcoal until the skin crisped up and golden. The smokiness from the charcoal adds a layer of amazingness to the dish. Enjoy with grated daikon and lemon.

Sanma or Pacific Saury is one of the most well-known seasonal fish representing autumn in Japanese cuisine. I use my Japanese fish grill, enameled cast iron grill with a gas stove and heat it to a medium to medium-high heat. You should also be able to use a regular grill outside (or a regular fry pan though the fry pan won't give you that special "grilled" flavor). You can have Grilled Sanma using 5 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Grilled Sanma

1. It's 1 of Whole sanma.
2. You need 1/2 of sudachi citrus or lemon.
3. Prepare 4 Tbsp of grated daikon.
4. It's to taste of soy sauce.
5. It's 1-2 tsp of oil for your grill.

Rinse the sanma and pat dry. Sanma is commonly used in Japanese cuisine. To make this dish, all you need is an oven/grill. I used my toaster oven that is pretty quick to grill a small amount of meat.

Grilled Sanma step by step

1. Heat up your grill. I use my Japanese fish grill, enameled cast iron grill with a gas stove and heat it to a medium to medium-high heat. You should also be able to use a regular grill outside ( or a regular fry pan though the fry pan won't give you that special "grilled" flavor)..
2. Rinse the sanma and pat dry. Cut in half if your grill is too small to fit the whole fish..
3. Sanma tastes great topped with grated daikon radish so if you have it, grate some into a bowl and set aside..
4. Once your grill or pan is heated up, wipe on a bit of oil with a paper towel. Start grilling your fish!.
5. Grill each side for about 4-5 minutes, until you have some nice grill marks or the skin is a bit crispy. It might stick to the pan a little if it hasn't been seasoned yet..
6. Serve on a plate with grated daikon! You'll have to remove the bones as you eat. If the innards haven't been removed, you can technically eat those too but it's quite bitter..
7. Squeeze a slice of sudachi or lemon over the top, and top with daikon and a touch of soy sauce (or just soy sauce).

If you don't have an oven at home, you can pan fry it oven medium-high heat. It is ' Sanma (さんま, 秋刀魚)' in Japanese. Once grill hits temp, reduce heat to medium-low and place Pacific Saury on the grill. Japanese Grilled Mackerel Pike (Sanma Shio Yaki) Sanma (Mackerel Pike) is a typical seasonal fish in fall in Japan. However it is served as sashimi, grilled with sea salt (Shio Yaki) is the most common and popular as a home food.