Baked Salmon with Honey Sesame Chili Teriyaki Marinade

Amarante

Sun, Jul 30 2023, 5:15 pm

This was fast and very easy - and considerably healthier than using bottled teriyaki

Recipe is for 2 but I scaled it up very easily.

Baked Salmon with Honey Sesame Chili Teriyaki Marinade

Excerpt From: The Chew Approved: The Most Popular Recipes from The Chew Viewers.

Serves: 2

Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutesInactive
Cook Time: 30 minutes to up to 2 hours

½ cup soy sauce
2 teaspoons dark sesame oil
2 oranges, juiced
2 tablespoons honey
¼ cup scallions, chopped
1 tablespoon red chili pepper, minced - I used the red jalapeño and seeded them
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 teaspoons toasted sesame seeds
1 teaspoon sriracha
2 6-ounce salmon fillets (skin on)
Nonstick cooking spray

1. For the marinade, mix together all of the ingredients, except the salmon and cooking spray. Place the salmon in the marinade and cover in the fridge for 30 minutes, and up to 2 hours. - I only marinated for 30 minutes - I think 2 hours would start "cooking" the fish

2. Preheat oven to 450°F.

3. Lightly grease a baking sheet with nonstick spray.

4. Remove salmon from the fridge while oven is preheating. Transfer salmon to a baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes for medium doneness.

Newcastle

Sun, Jul 30 2023, 5:53 pm

Amarante wrote:

Looks delicious, but I’m just wondering-is bottled teriyaki sauce really so much more unhealthy than bottled soy sauce?

Amarante

Sun, Jul 30 2023, 6:28 pm

Newcastle wrote:

Looks delicious, but I’m just wondering-is bottled teriyaki sauce really so much more unhealthy than bottled soy sauce?

Bottled teriyaki sauce is mostly sugar so it is essentially feeding into a taste for overly sweet food and generally is also made with high fructose corn syrup which many people think is less healthy than other sources of sweetness.

This recipe gets sweetness from fresh oranges with a minimal amount of honey.

Therefore the flavoring is healthier in terms of ingredients than bottled teriyaki.

Also at least in opinion, it tastes better than bottled teriyaki sauce 🤷‍♀️

Soy sauce has sodium but you can use lower sodium soy if that is a major concern.