This Maple Ginger Baked Salmon is perfectly tangy and sweet, and baked to perfection. Get the flakey salmon texture you’ve always wanted with a delicious maple ginger sauce to boot. Baked Salmon is served! Enjoy.
How to Bake Salmon
This baked salmon is the recipe you’ve been looking for! You know that perfectly flakey salmon texture you love and can only perfect once in a while or when you’re ordering at a restaurant?! Well, we’re here to make your baked salmon dreams come true with this perfectly cooked, perfectly saucy, perfect baked salmon. And it’s super easy to make.
Step 1:
There are seriously only two crucial steps to this recipe. 1: make sure you pat your un-seasoned salmon dry with a paper towel to draw out all the moisture before you pour the sauce over your filets and bake.
Step 2:
And 2: make sure you cook your salmon on high broil. I know the broiler can be a scary setting (we’ve all forgotten about hamburger buns we were just trying to lightly toast only to remember them when you catch a whiff of burnt-to-a-crisp bread…), but your baked salmon will NOT start on fire, and it WILL be perfectly flakey and delicious after the 8 minutes (seriously, the salmon filets will be cooked in under 10 min.) on high broil. Now all you need to do is decide what to serve with this deliciousness.
Serve this baked salmon with our delicious Simple Asian Salad, or one of these other tasty salad pairings:
- Best Kale Salad Recipes
- Pomegranate and Pear Kale Salad
- Crunchy Asian Kale Salad
- Massaged Kale and Fennel Salad
Maple Glazed Salmon Sauce
This sauce is perfectly tangy and sweet, and easy to whip up with just a few ingredients (seriously, only 3!!) that you likely already have in your cupboards at home, including:
Soy sauce: we’ve tested this with both regular soy sauce as well as low sodium soy sauce, and both turned out great. Feel free to use whichever you prefer! Otherwise, coconut aminos will work as well.
Maple syrup: we prefer to use 100% maple syrup for a much better flavor and no high-fructose corn syrup.
Fresh grated ginger: the flavor of fresh-grated ginger will give this sauce the most delicious ginger-y tang. Simply scrape away the ginger peel with the side of a spoon, and then grate.
Big fan of other healthy seafood recipes as well? We have quite a few delicious seafood recipes on Fit Foodie Finds to inspire a few meals before you make this baked salmon recipe again 😀
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Maple Ginger Baked Salmon
Ingredients
- 2 4-oz. salmon filets
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1/2 tablespoon fresh grated ginger
Instructions
- Preheat oven to high broil. We used an 8x8 pan, but you can use any size. Spray your pan with olive oil or non-stick cooking spray.
- Next, draw moisture out of your salmon by patting each fillet down with a paper towel. Place salmon into your baking dish and set aside.
- In a medium-sized bowl whisk together maple syrup, soy sauce, and grated ginger. When all ingredients are combined, pour over salmon fillets making sure they are completely covered in sauce.
- Place salmon in the oven and broil on high for 8 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and serve with our Asian Kale Salad.
Tips & Notes
- This recipe was updated on March 10, 2019.
Since the sauce was quite runny before I cooked it, most of it ended up burnt to the bottom of the pan, and not much of it ended up in the salmon so it was pretty bland. I had a suspicion that would happen and thought about scooping the sauce out halfway through the broil time to pour over the salmon after it was cooked, but decided to go with the recipe – should’ve listened to my instincts. I added sesame oil, salt, white pepper, and lemon, which helped.
This recipe is delicious and so easy!
BEST SALMON I HAVE EVER TASTED IN MY LIFE
LOL. YAY!
This turned out so good! I added Dijon mustard and some garlic too and it was perfect!
I can’t find the “Simply Asia” seasoning in store (I was hoping to cook it this week, so don’t want to order online). What do you recommend I substitute with? 🙁
Uhhhhh… oh hey just me… doing our meal plan and stumbled upon your vlog! HOLY SHIT please do more. I’m sitting here cracking up. okay bye!!
HAHAHA. #neveragain
Totally made this! I have no chef-ly skills and this turned out so tasty! Big fan. The boy was too.
Thanks Lee for the great recommendation 🙂
Thanks for the review CEC!!!!! I’m glad everything turned out swell 😀 Food is a way to a man’s heart 😉 Hopefully I can meet him soon…maybe at a spin class!
my fiancé and I make this same salmon recipe whenever we make salmon because it’s easy, simple and delicious!! We use Scottish salmon because it has a buttery taste! You and Blake should try it sometime! http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/salmon-with-hoisin-glaze-10000001911346/
Love hoisen! Looks like a lovely recipe…simple and easy!
Lee I’m so impressed with your index! We’re not worthy! This salmon looks easy and Asian. Two awesome dinner attributes.
Hahaha 😀 Thank you! Can’t wait to explore yours. I already know I like it based off of the design. #winnerwinnersalmondinner
OMG Lee that video was amazing!!! You are so funny!
It’s so OLD! I’m still that funny 😀
Ahhh I love that Asian seasoning… I totally do salmon similarly, except minus the rice wine and ginger. It’s SO GOOD. And I just dump it in with veggies and coconut aminos for a stir fry!
That’s the first time I’ve used it but can’t wait to explore even more with it! Send me some recipes you’ve done with it!!
Fantastic recipe. I have some defrosted salmon waiting for me in the fridge that would be perfect with this marinade. I have a question, though. Why do we need to pre-heat the oven BEFORE putting on the marinade and letting the salmon rest for 30 mins?
Thanks for your recipes and great photos!
I guess you don’t have to! That’s just what I did. Feel free to marinade and then preheat 😀
I know what you mean about holding back…I got a comment once about how it wasn’t necessary for me to use the F word in my post. I felt like a little kid getting scolded! But then I realized that if I swear once in a while it’s okay because it’s my personality (and I really did need to use the F word to get my point across). I definitely just laughed when you called yourself a little shit! Love it. And um…salmon…in my mouth, NOW.
Well boom sauce. I like you and the design of your blog. So clean and simple! Sometimes you just gotta say the F word 😀
Oh my gosh thank you! You just made my day 🙂
😀
That vlog is so great. Love love love seeing your personality shine through! And man, I could totally go for some sweet/savory salmon. I AM partial to Asian flavors too…. 😉
Totally agree! I love reading blogger’s personality/stories, and I think I struggle with what to share from my personal life, since my blog is my business too. That’s what I love about instagram – more of a glimpse into the bloggers’ life.
Totes with you on IG! That’s sort of how I treat it..it’s more of my personal life, but also connected to blog stuff!
This sounds so delicious. I cook salmon a lot and am always looking for new ways of cooking it.
Girl! Your recipe section is looking GORGEOUS! Do you use a certain plugin for it? I’m looking to reorganize my own recipes and ugh… I don’t even know where to start.
Also, I second Davs’ opinion about letting more personality show through! Gorgeous photography and tasty recipes are great and all, but I follow the blogs I follow because of the people behind them and I love it when their personality saturates their posts.
Thank you thank you! I actually just transferred to the Foodie Theme. Julie from Deluxe-Designs.net is actually a genius. She customized the theme for me. All I had to do was categorize things and it automatically updates my recipe section once I publish a new post with certain categories. It has been SO helpful. I can’t tell you how often I would forget to update my recipe page. I definitely would consider hiring Julie…and I’m not just saying that. She is super knowledgable and you won’t risk effing shiz up 😀
Baha!! That vlog was fantastic! Thank you for entertaining me for 4 minutes this morning! 😉
I’m sort of embarrassed but not really because I am actually really weird like that in real life 😀
Awwww, your video is so cute!! Bring back the vlogs I declare!
I totally know what you mean about the Blogger to WP shift destroying your old posts. As if mine didn’t look bad enough with the horrible photos, now the layout is completely whacked too. So annoying. Nice job cleaning everything up. Your website looks fantastic, and so does that salmon 🙂
It’s seriously taken me like 5 months. I think in general wordpress has weird spacing, but seriously stuff my so messed up! Worth it though. Wp is so much better than blogger minus the spacing thang! How bout I just post you and Gigi’s vlogs on my site? Cool. Thanks.
I give you FULL permission! 😉
LOVE YOU AND YOUR WINNING PERSONALITY. That video is everything. I have no idea how I missed it in my 3 years of stalking you. Let’s be honest, I quit my job so I could stalk you full-time.
I need to go rewatch that video.
Relateability should definitely be a word.
When we’re together for our “business” meeting, we will do a video. Skype will sponsor it.
Progress I’ve made on categorizing my posts: ZERO.
:))))))) seriously though vlogs freak me out. I have a lisp.
Lets have a VIEWING PARTY OF THIS AMAZINGNESS that is Lee’s video?!?! YES YES YES!! Or better yet – WE SHOULD ALL MAKE A VIDEO TOGEEETTTHHHHERRR!