Recipe: Delicious Asian Sesame Salmon

Asian Sesame Salmon. Serve flaky, fork-tender salmon any night of the week with a little help from McCormick® Chinese-Style Flavor Makers. The convenient combination of ginger, garlic and sesame seasonings brings wonderful Asian flavor to this easy dish. Asian sauce is made by mixing together the sesame oil, honey, rice vinegar, soy sauce, red curry paste until honey is melted and blended beautifully with other ingredients. Serve this amazing salmon over rice, quinoa, or veggies. I love good quality wild fresh salmon!

Wild salmon is marinated and baked in an Asian-inspired soy and sesame sauce, served with hot cooked rice. With a modern Asian spin, you'll love the combination of flavours of ingredients in this - avocado, edamame, tomato, cucumber and golden seared salmon drizzled with a fabulous Asian Ginger Sesame Dressing! In a mixing bowl, whisk together soy sauce, sherry, rice vinegar, sesame oil, sugar, and red pepper flakes. You can have Asian Sesame Salmon using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Asian Sesame Salmon

1. Prepare 2 tsp of Toasted sesame seed.
2. Prepare 1 tsp of Minced garlic.
3. It's 1 tsp of Minced onion.
4. Prepare 3/4 tsp of Ground ginger.
5. It's 1/2 tsp of Red pepper flakes (optional).
6. Prepare 1/3 cup of Honey.
7. It's 1/3 cup of Green onion (thinly sliced).
8. Prepare 2 tbsp of Soy sauce.
9. It's 2 lb of Salmon fillets.

Place salmon in a glass baking dish and pour soy sauce mixture over salmon. My Asian dad who normally never touches the food I make cleaned his plate AND got seconds. Also, the recipe is called "sesame ginger salmon", so if you're looking for a dish with less sesame….you might not want to choose one that has sesame in the name. 😉 Thanks so much for sharing. This is an easy, delicious, signature recipe!

Asian Sesame Salmon instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
2. In small bowl combine honey, green onions, soy sauce and spices, except red pepper flakes, until well blended. Stir in red pepper to taste, if desired..
3. Place salmon in 13x9 in baking dish..
4. Spoon honey mixture evenly over salmon..
5. Bake salmon in preheated oven for 30 minutes or until fish flakes easily with a fork, basting occasionally with honey mixture..

Discard unused marinade in the shallow dish. Line a baking sheet with foil. In a small bowl, whisk together honey, garlic, soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil, ginger, Sriracha and pepper, to taste. Super easy Asian salmon made with few ingredients, but tastes so incredible! The glazed on this salmon is fantastic - and so quick to make.