Maple Ginger Baked Salmon

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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. maple ginger baked salmon on a plate

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:

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. maple ginger baked salmon sauce maple ginger baked salmon baked to perfection 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 ๐Ÿ˜€

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4.60 from 5 votes

Maple Ginger Baked Salmon

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.
Prep: 5 minutes
Cook: 8 minutes
Total: 13 minutes
Servings: 2
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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 8×8 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.

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Nutrition

Calories: 262 kcal, Carbohydrates: 14 g, Protein: 28 g, Fat: 9 g, Sugar: 12 g

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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Reyna
Reyna
December 12, 2020 7:02 pm
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3 stars
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.

Natalie
Natalie
October 31, 2019 7:11 pm
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5 stars
This recipe is delicious and so easy!

Lex
Lex
June 24, 2019 5:52 pm
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5 stars
BEST SALMON I HAVE EVER TASTED IN MY LIFE

Lee Funke
June 26, 2019 11:07 am
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LOL. YAY!