Asian Salmon Recipe – Beaming Baker

Flavorful and tender, this Asian Salmon recipe yields soy sauce, brown sugar and hoisin glazed salmon that’s flaky and juicy!

Quick ‘n Easy Asian Baked Salmon Recipe

All you need is 5 minutes of prep time to make this bold and flavorful Asian salmon recipe that’s healthy and delicious! Since making spicy honey teriyaki salmon and Asian garlic shrimp, my family’s been asking for more Asian seafood recipes for dinner and lunch. What can I say, we were raised on these flavors—hoisin, soy sauce, and garlic—and nothing hits quite deliciously like it.

Zingy fresh ginger, umami-packed hoisin and soy sauce combine with sweet brown sugar and tangy rice vinegar for my favorite Asian salmon recipe!

Let’s make this seriously quick ‘n easy Asian baked salmon recipe! Your family will be asking for this again and again.

Asian Salmon Recipe Ingredients

• Soy sauce: don’t be afraid to use low sodium soy sauce—it’s what I use on the daily and what I used to test this recipe
• Garlic: Mince two garlic cloves or use 2 teaspoons ready-made minced garlic
• Hoisin Sauce: My favorite is Lee Kum Kee since my mom’s used it since we were kids
• Rice Vinegar: this is what I use to make my super popular Asian salad dressing and Asian salad
• Brown Sugar: light or dark, both work
• Ginger: make sure to use fresh ginger and grate right before starting the recipe for the zestiest taste!
• Oil
• Salmon: make this Asian salmon recipe even easier by buying already prepared skin-on salmon fillets.

How to Make this Asian Salmon Recipe

With 3 basic steps, this Asian salmon recipe is so easy to prepare and cooks in just 12 minutes. The result is umami-packed salmon goodness that’s perfect for lunch or dinner.

1. Preheat oven to 400°F. Then, whisk together the Asian marinade ingredients: oil, soy sauce, garlic, hoisin, rice vinegar, brown sugar, and ginger.

2. Line salmon fillets, skin side down, on an oiled baking pan. Pour the marinade over the salmon, coating all but the skin side.

3. Bake for 12 minutes, then serve with rice and honey sriracha Brussels sprouts. Enjoy!

Asian Marinade for Salmon

Looking for an Asian marinade for salmon that skips marinating time? Today’s Asian salmon recipe includes a homemade Asian marinade for salmon that’s flavorful, a touch sweet, and zesty with ginger. It’s made with brown sugar, hoisin sauce, soy sauce, rice vinegar, garlic and ginger.

What to Serve with Asian Baked Salmon

• Salad: spicy Asian cucumber salad, Asian salad with Asian salad dressing, and chickpea avocado salad
• More seafood: bang bang shrimp, coconut shrimp, and air fryer salmon bites or bang bang shrimp tacos
• Grains: steamed brown rice, fettuccine Alfredo, garlic butter pasta, quinoa
• Veggies: blistered green beans, Hasselback sweet potatoes, roasted carrots and potatoes, maple Brussels sprouts, steamed bok choy

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