Thai Salmon
Thai Salmon is a super easy, delicious dinner. It has a great heat kick to it and it's ready in under 30 minutes. The entire family will love this recipe. It's beautiful and bright, a great change to the usual meal.
Servings: 4
Equipment
- 1 baking sheet
- small sauce pan
Ingredients
Thai Chili Sauce
- ½ cup sweet chili sauce
- 2½ Tbsp low sodium soy sauce or tamari
- 1 tsp chili garlic sauce
- 1 Tbsp fish sauce
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1½ Tbsp maple syrup
- 1 Tbsp lime juice
- ½ tsp cayenne pepper
- 1 tsp ginger, minced
- 1 tsp red pepper flakes
- 1 tsp Sriracha *optional for spice
- 1 tsp corn starch or arrowroot will work
Thai Salmon
- 1-1½ lb salmon 4 filets
- ¼ cup salted peanuts, chopped
- 4 Tbsp green onions, chopped
- 1 Tbsp fresh cilantro, fresh garnish *optional
- ¼ cup edemame *optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375º. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- To make the sauce, add chili sauce, soy sauce, garlic, fish sauce, ginger, lime juice and Sriracha, ginger in a small saucepan. Whisk cornstarch with 1 tsp of water, add that to the sauce pan. On medium low heat, bring sauce to a simmer for about 5-8 minutes or until it thickens up a bit.
- Place salmon onto prepared baking sheet. Season salmon with red pepper flakes and (optional cayenne for extra spice). Once the sauce has thickened, let it cool a bit. Spoon the chili sauce mixture over the salmon. Make sure the whole surface is covered, use a brush to brush it if needed. Save the leftover sauce for serving.
- Place the salmon in the oven and bake for 15-18 minutes depending on how you prefer your salmon cooked, I like medium. Serve over rice of choice and garnish with green onions, cilantro, edamame if using and any other veggies of choice.
Notes
- Don't overcook the salmon! Cook it to your preference of course but don't let it dry out.
- Cube the salmon before cooking. If you want to make this recipe more "bite sized" simple cube the salmon while raw and follow the instructions the same.
- Taste the sauce as you go! You may want more sweetness from the maple syrup or more spice.
- use tamari or coconut aminos instead of soy sauce if gluten free.
- arrow root will also work for gluten free sub to cornstarch
- any salmon of choice will work, I use wild caught sustainable salmon when I can.
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 396kcal | Carbohydrates: 25g | Protein: 38g | Fat: 16g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Cholesterol: 94mg | Sodium: 1182mg | Potassium: 999mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 20g | Vitamin A: 325IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 49mg | Iron: 2mg