Sweet Chili Salmon
A simple and delicious recipe for baked salmon with sweet chili sauce
Servings 2 people
Cost $8
Ingredients
- 2 each Salmon filets thawed
- 1 pinch salt and pepper
- 2 tbl Jarred sweet chili sauce I used Panda Express's sauce
- White rice or other quick cooking side dish
- Frozen veggies
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Grease a small baking dish and lay thawed salmon in, skin side down.
- Lightly season salmon with salt and pepper.
- Bake in the oven for 10 minutes.
- When 10 minutes is up, remove salmon and brush sweet chili sauce on the salmon.
- Return salmon to oven and bake for 5 minutes
- Check if salmon is done by seeing if the thickest part will flake easily with a fork.
- Let stand for a minute or so, and plate with your rice and veggies!
Notes
- If you are cooking regular white rice as a side dish, I would start the rice cooking before you start the salmon.
- If you are cooking a microwave rice side dish, then microwave the rice when you put the salmon back in the oven with the sweet chili sauce.
- I often top this dish with a little more sweet chili sauce, or sesame seeds, or chopped fresh chives, or other herbs.
- This dish is easy to scale up or down. Just use about 1 TBL of sweet chili sauce for each salmon filet you cook.
- If you do not have sweet chili sauce or do not like it, this recipe will also work great with some bottled teriyaki sauce, bulgogi sauce, or a honey/garlic sauce.
- If you want leftovers, I will often turn a filet into a fish taco, with some shredded cabbage, rice, and some extra sweet chili sauce mixed with mayo. It is a tasty lunch for the next day!