Sweet Chili Salmon

Baked salmon fillets with a Thai sweet chili glaze.

This delicious Thai Sweet Chili Salmon is a perfect tasty dinner, ready in less than 30 minutes. Tender salmon fillets are marinated in a flavorful sweet chili sauce, then glazed, wrapped in foil, and oven baked to perfection.

Course Main Course

Cuisine American, Asian

Prep Time 3

Cook Time 22

Total Time 25

Servings servings

Calories 198kcal

Author Slow The Cook Down

Ingredients

2 salmon fillets (or one large. Around 6 ounces / 170g each)
1 tablespoon fish sauce
3 tablespoons Thai sweet chili sauce (divided)

Instructions

Pat the salmon fillets dry with kitchen paper and place in a shallow bowl, skin side down.
Spoon the fish sauce of the salmon fillets, then a tablespoon of sweet chili sauce over each one. Cover and place in the fridge for at least 30 minutes, or up to 6 hours.
When ready to cook, pre-heat the oven to 360F / 180c.
Line a baking sheet with tin foil (use a longer length as we will fully wrap the fish) and place in the salmon fillets, skin side down. Drizzle over any of the remaining sauce from the bowl.
Tent the foil around the salmon and seal tightly.
Cook for 20 minutes (depending on the thickness of your salmon fillets - thinner cuts will require less time) til flaky.
Remove from the oven and unwrap the foil. Switch the oven to broil.
Spoon over the remaining Thai sweet chili sauce over the fillets and place under the broiler for a couple of minutes til browned and caramelized.

Notes

Pat the salmon dry with kitchen paper before marinating it. This step will make sure the marinate will be well absorbed to give the salmon the most flavor.
You can skip or reduce the marinating time if you're in a hurry, it will still have a great flavor.
Cut the foil longer than the baking pan, to make sure it's enough to fully wrap the salmon. If you're making a bigger batch, you can line the pan with one foil and then cut another one of the same size to place on top and then carefully fold all the edges together to close it.
The salmon is fully cooked through when it's a light pink color and no longer translucent, it will also flake easily when pierced with a fork. If you want to test the temperature with a cooking thermometer, it should have an internal temperature of 125F-130F in the thickest part.

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