Please pretend I spelled teriyaki correctly!

The recipe author actually touches on this in her notes: "It's fantastic when barbecuing -- just make sure to brush it on when your meat is almost done so it doesn't char too much. "

I suggest a late application on the salmon as well.

This is the same basic concept about applying sweetish glazes to barbecue. You do it at the end.

Good luck.

Kristen, this is my go to teriyaki glaze when I crave a simple chicken rice bowl or as a quick glaze for salmon. It's really good. I think it's the addition of sake that elevates it from a typical bottled sauce. In both cases, I use it at the end of cooking and not as a marinade. I like to put it on when the meat has just a minute or two left so it barely gets a char on the edges and then add a little more when it comes off the grill or oven or at the table.

That's right, I did read that and forgot about it when I came back to the recipe! I've never happened to have made a teriyaki dish before so I looked up a bunch of recipes and they all included marinating the meat in the teriyaki sauce so I started to wonder if I'd be sacrificing flavor if I didn't do it. But what you say makes sense - thanks.

For broiling/grilling, brushing the sauce on at the end is best. But if you want to marinate as well - and are willing to turn on the oven - you could try slow roasting the marinated salmon at a low temp (250 or so,) good for keeping it moist in any case, for maybe 10-15 minutes, until just barely cooked. At that point/temp the sugar probably won't have burned. Then finish it under the broiler for a minute or two, just to brown the glaze on top. (This diverges from standard teriyaki, but might be worth a try.)

Yes, the teriyaki will burn by the time the salmon is cooked. I would grill the salmon first, then brush on the teriyaki, grill or broil until it starts to bubble.

Yes, this was my initial instinct. However, because soy-based marinades do penetrate more than other marinades b/c of the sodium, I was wondering if the dish would be missing something if I didn't marinate. However a consensus is a consensus, and it's not worth burning the dish! Thanks, all! Btw, made the teriyaki sauce this morning and it tastes great! Going to add that one to my repertoire for sure.

Forgot to mention: that's an interesting idea, any sarah, but even though it's raining it's still hot outside so I may wait to try that another day. Thanks for the idea.

"amysarah ", not "any sarah"!! Grrrr, autocorrect!

So just to report back, I made the dish tonight for my mom's birthday dinner and it was a great success! I didn't pre-season or marinate, just glazed the salmon with the sauce near the end, and the flavor from that was plenty intense on its own. Happy to have a new easy and tasty dish in my repertoire!