Description
This Sweet Chili Baked Salmon Recipe is high in protein, low in calories, and only takes 30 minutes to make! It’s a super easy baked salmon recipe with a fun Asian twist.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1.5–2lbs. salmon
Thai Sweet Chili Sauce:
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1/2 tablespoons arrowroot
- green onions, sliced (for garnish)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Heat a small saucepan to medium high heat. Add olive oil and garlic to the pan. Saute until fragrant, about 30 seconds.
- Add honey, water, cloves, ginger, and red pepper flakes to the pan. Stir to mix ingredients. Bring sauce to a boil. Reduce to simmer and add arrowroot to the sauce pan, using a whisk stir the arrowroot in until it disappears. Allow simmer to simmer for 2 minutes. Remove from heat. Let rest, for 5 minutes.
- Add parchment paper to a baking sheet. Place salmon, skin side down on parchment paper.
- Reserve about 1/4 cup of the sauce.
- Using a brush, brush the rest of the sauce onto the flesh side of the salmon.
- Bake for 15 minutes.
- Remove from oven. Pour the reserved sauce on top of the salmon and garnish with green onions. Serve!
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 4 oz.
- Calories: 228
- Sugar: 23 g
- Sodium: 281 mg
- Fat: 3 g
- Carbohydrates: 27 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 25 g
- Cholesterol: 53 mg
