This Sweet Chili Salmon is a 20 minutes dish that’s packed with flavor and makes a perfect dinner solution! A bit of sweet, a bit of spicy, super tasty delicious and succulent salmon! This is a Thai inspired recipe with so much room for you to adjust it to your taste.
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Today’s sweet chili salmon is made using our Chili Oil Recipe as a base. This oil has been our go to! We use it on our Asian Cucumber Salad, eggs, Seared Ahi Tuna, Chili Lime Shrimp, and much more!
Now combine that with our Hot Honey Recipe which is the star of many recipes! These include our Hot Honey Chicken, Honey Glazed Carrots, Honey Glazed Salmon and Roasted Butternut Squash.
Why You’ll LOVE this Sweet Chili Salmon
- It’s a 15-20 minute recipe, start to finish!
- The salmon is succulent when broiled or baked, so pick your favorite way of cooking.
- The flavors are impeccable –sweet, spicy and aromatic.
- If you’ve made Chili Oil Recipe or Hot Honey Recipe–you’re ready to go! They both can be made months in advance and stored in your pantry.
- You can likewise use your favorite store-bought sweet chili sauce, and it will be even easier.
- This salmon recipe pairs so well with any salad, rice, bread, ramen and more!
Ingredients You’ll Need
- Salmon. Use any type of salmon, skin on or skinless, as long as they’re fillets.
- Chili Oil. We love our homemade version, it keeps in the pantry for months and super easy to make. Store bought works too.
- Hot Honey. While you can use any sweetener or regular honey, we love the spice hot honey.
- Aromatics. Scallions, sesame seeds, garlic and ginger if you’d like-these add so much flavor to the salmon.
How to Make Sweet Chili Salmon
- The first step is to have your sweet chili sauce ready. You can get it store bought or prepare it at home using the Chili Oil Recipe as a base, adding to it honey, soy sauce, ginger , garlic and spice.
- Next you will use a spoon and cover the surface of the salmon fillets with the sauce, on both sides.
- Use your hands to massage the sweet chili oil well into the salmon and pace the fillets back on the baking sheet.
- You can at this point bake the salmon or broil it. Preheat the oven based on the cooking technique you prefer.
- For today’s recipe, we chose the broil method. It’s quicker with a delicious crust on the fish.
- Once ready and out of the oven, use a spoon and add in more of the chili oil on top.
- Garnish with extra sesame seeds if you’d like, some chives or minced green onions and cilantro if you like. And there you have it! Perfect Sweet Chili Salmon ready in 20 minutes!
Salmon Recipe Tips
- If you have some Chili Oil Recipe and Hot Honey Recipe in your pantry, you can whip this salmon recipe in less than 20 minutes!
- While you can use store bought sweet chili sauce, we love making it at home. We love adding extra ginger, garlic, a dash of soy sauce and plenty of Hot Honey Recipe. You can control the sweetness and spice level completely.
- Add in extra spice if you like with extra chilli flakes.
- Any type of salmon would work here. Skin on or skinless, Atlantic or wild–just make sure it’s a fillet.
- If you prefer baked salmon, preheat the oven to 400 degrees and bake the salmon for 18-24 minutes. This depends on the thickness of your fillets. This Baked Salmon With Greek Dressing has a guide on baking salmon.
- We prefer broiling today as it’s quicker and we love the charred crust with the sweet chili flavors.
- You can likewise use the air fryer following this Air Fryer Salmon. Or cut them into bite size Air Fryer Salmon Bites.
- Avoid over cooking the salmon as it will dry out.
- Drenching the salmon in sauce once it’s out of the oven as well infuses it with so much flavor.
- Feel free to add any of your favorite garnishes here–cilantro, chives, extra sesame or your favorites.
What to Serve with Sweet Chili Salmon
You can serve this easy quick salmon recipe in so many ways!
- Serve with a zesty Cilantro Lime Rice, Easy Cucumber Salad, Asian Cucumber Salad or Thai Style Rice Paper Rolls with Two Dipping Sauces.
- Turn it into a Salmon Bowl, Poke Bowl, Sushi Bowl or add it in a Sushi Burrito.
- Over any salad like Ahi Tuna Salad, Thai Salad With Peanut Dressing, Sweet Potato Salad.
- With a side of veggies like Air Fryer Asparagus, Honey Glazed Carrots, Zucchini Fries, Crispy Potatoes.
How to Store Leftovers and Reheat
You can store any leftover sweet chili salmon in an airtight container in the fridge for 3-4 days. To reheat, you can wrap the salmon in foil and air fry at 350 degrees for 6-7 minutes. Or in the oven at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes. You can likewise microwave, but we don’t recommend.
What to do with Leftovers
Turn it into a Po Boy Sandwich, Salmon Bowl or Salmon Tacos.
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Sockeye Salmon With Lemon Butter Sauce
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Pan Seared Salmon
Sweet Chili Salmon
This Sweet Chili Salmon is a 20 minutes dish that's packed with flavor and makes a perfect dinner solution! A bit of sweet, a bit of spicy, super tasty delicious and succulent salmon! This is a Thai inspired recipe with so much room for you to adjust it to your taste.
Ingredients
Salmon
- 4 salmon fillets
Sweet Chili Sauce
- 1 cup Chili Oil Recipe Recipe here or store bought
- 1/4 cup Hot Honey Recipe here or store bought
- 1 teaspoon ginger minced
- 1 garlic clove minced
- 1 teaspoon soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon chili flakes optional
Garnish
- 1 tablespoons sesame seeds
- 2 tablespoons scallions minced or chives
Instructions
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The first step is to have your sweet chili sauce ready. You can get it store bought or prepare it at home using the Chili Oil Recipe as a base, adding to it honey, soy sauce, ginger , garlic and chili flakes.
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Add the sauce ingredients in a jar and taste to adjust if you prefer it extra spicy or extra sweet.
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Next you will use a spoon and cover the surface of the salmon fillets with the sauce, on both sides.
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Use your hands to massage the sweet chili oil well into the salmon and pace the fillets back on the baking sheet.
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You can at this point bake the salmon or broil it. Preheat the oven based on the cooking technique you prefer.
To bake, preheat the oven to 420 degrees F.
To broil, preheat the broiler.
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For baking, it requires 18-20 minutes. For broiling, the salmon is cooked between 8-10 minutes.
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Once ready and out of the oven, use a spoon and add in more of the chili oil on top.
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Garnish with extra sesame seeds if you'd like, some chives or minced green onions and cilantro if you like. And there you have it! Perfect Sweet Chili Salmon ready in 20 minutes!
Recipe Notes
Salmon Recipe Tips
- If you have some Chili Oil Recipe and Hot Honey Recipe in your pantry, you can whip this salmon recipe in less than 20 minutes!
- While you can use store bought sweet chili sauce, we love making it at home. We love adding extra ginger, garlic, a dash of soy sauce and plenty of Hot Honey Recipe. You can control the sweetness and spice level completely.
- Add in extra spice if you like with extra chilli flakes.
- Any type of salmon would work here. Skin on or skinless, Atlantic or wild--just make sure it's a fillet.
- If you prefer baked salmon, preheat the oven to 400 degrees and bake the salmon for 18-24 minutes. This depends on the thickness of your fillets. This Baked Salmon With Greek Dressing has a guide on baking salmon.
- We prefer broiling today as it's quicker and we love the charred crust with the sweet chili flavors.
- You can likewise use the air fryer following this Air Fryer Salmon. Or cut them into bite size Air Fryer Salmon Bites.
- Avoid over cooking the salmon as it will dry out.
- Drenching the salmon in sauce once it's out of the oven as well infuses it with so much flavor.
- Feel free to add any of your favorite garnishes here--cilantro, chives, extra sesame or your favorites.
What to Serve with Sweet Chili Salmon
You can serve this easy quick salmon recipe in so many ways!
- Serve with a zesty Cilantro Lime Rice, Easy Cucumber Salad, Asian Cucumber Salad or Thai Style Rice Paper Rolls with Two Dipping Sauces.
- Turn it into a Salmon Bowl, Poke Bowl, Sushi Bowl or add it in a Sushi Burrito.
- Over any salad like Ahi Tuna Salad, Thai Salad With Peanut Dressing, Sweet Potato Salad.
- With a side of veggies like Air Fryer Asparagus, Honey Glazed Carrots, Zucchini Fries, Crispy Potatoes.
How to Store Leftovers and Reheat
You can store any leftover sweet chili salmon in an airtight container in the fridge for 3-4 days. To reheat, you can wrap the salmon in foil and air fry at 350 degrees for 6-7 minutes. Or in the oven at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes. You can likewise microwave, but we don't recommend.
What to do with Leftovers
Turn it into a Po Boy Sandwich, Salmon Bowl or Salmon Tacos.
Loved how simple this was to prepare! We already had all the ingredients so it came together in no time. Planning to use the leftovers for meal prep
This is my husband’s new favorite salmon recipe. He asked me to make it again next week because it was THAT good. I enjoyed it and I am not usually a big fan of salmon.
This was a hit! The sauce was so flavorful and easy to make. The salmon itself was perfectly cooked and flaked apart easily. I served it with some steamed rice and it was the perfect weeknight meal.
I made this last night and we loved it. The sweet and savory flavor is perfect with the salmon.