The Best Salmon Marinade requires just a handful of ingredients to bring out the best flavor in your salmon. It’s the best marinade for salmon whether you are making grilled salmon or oven-baked.
This salmon marinade can be used with the two most common cooking methods for salmon: baking and grilling. Baking is a super easy method for cooking salmon that locks in flavor and helps cook salmon evenly. Grilling adds a lot of additional flavor to salmon which is a natural benefit of cooking over an open flame. No matter which method you use, this marinade is going to take your salmon over the top with flavor!
This marinade is an orange-honey-ginger based sauce. Each ingredient is important and offers something different to create the best tasting salmon. Soy provides seasoning on our fish rather than salt. Salmon always needs an acid, and orange is the perfect complimenting flavor. The honey works to balance out the acidity. Garlic and ginger add a complexity of flavor, with a touch of red pepper flakes for a little bit of heat. It’s the best salmon marinade for perfect salmon every time.
Spice Level in The Best Salmon Marinade:
The red pepper flakes in this recipe give it a nice warmth, without much heat. You can increase or decrease the amount of red pepper flakes according to your own spice tolerance and taste preferences.
Skillet Cooking Instructions:
Salmon is a forgiving fish that is easy to cook. Salmon is most commonly baked or grilled, though you can also cook it on the stovetop in a pan. This method works best for salmon portions and not large salmon filets. Heat a large skillet over medium high heat. Place the salmon skin-side down (if there is skin) and cook for 4 to 6 minutes, until golden brown. Flip and continue cooking for 4 to 6 minutes until salmon flakes easily with a fork.
Baking Instructions:
Preheat your oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Season your salmon with desired seasonings. Wrap in aluminum foil. Place on a baking sheet and bake in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes, or until salmon easily flakes with a fork. The aluminum foil will trap in steam and help cook your fish evenly.
Grilling Instructions:
To grill salmon, preheat an outdoor grill to approximately 400 degrees. Place your salmon onto aluminum foil or a pre-soaked cedar grilling plank. Close the grill, and cook for 12 to 15 minutes, or until fish easily flakes with a fork.
Storage and Reheating Instructions:
Salmon is always best served fresh. If you have any leftovers, you can store them in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. Reheat in an oven preheated to 350 degrees Fahrenheit until warmed through.
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When grilling salmon, I choose the ‘skin on’ alaskan wild caught sockeye, marinade or season, grill on medium high, oil the grates, place salmon on grill skin side down(unless you want grill marks, then flesh down for 30-45 seconds, then skin side donw), close lid, ignore for 10-12 minutes, open grill, fish should flake easily, slide spatula between skin and flesh, lift meat off and serve, exquisite
It was good and easy. I was surprised it worked so well since there wasn’t oil in it.
This is my go to salmon marinade. Tastes great. You got the nutrition number for fat wrong. Sal.on has higher fat than 2 grams.
This is the absolute best marinade for salmon. Always turns out perfectly and everyone raves about it’
This is the best of the best marinate for Salmon, I use to not like Salmon that much till I had this marinate. It’s delicious. My family loves it and anyone else will too. My star recipe rating isn’t working, but I give this 5+*****
There recipe rating isn’t working but I give this salmon marinate 5*****. Loved it! I’m not a big fish eater but I would eat this 5 days, it’s that good.
This is the best if the best marinate I’ve ever ate. It’s a 5***** restaurant quality. Even if you don’t like salmon, you’ll love this.
I love eating salmon and this was the best salmon recipe we’ve had. Salmon was very moist and full of flavor. We substituted the soy sauce with Bragg’s Liquid Aminos which I guess is a soy sauce substitute since that’s all he had in the house and it tasted fabulous. Thank you!!
Can this also be used on chicken
Yes
I’ve tried many salmon recipes. This is by far our favorite.