Best Baked Salmon – Mel’s Kitchen Cafe

This actually is one of the best baked salmon ever! A fast marinade ensures the flaky, tender salmon is tremendous flavorful.

We are a household of salmon lovers, and that is our very favourite strategy to make and eat salmon! It is really easy and so, so good. Bonus directions embody how one can prepare dinner the salmon in an air fryer.

Flavorful Marinade for Salmon

I’ve been making salmon utilizing this taste profile for years. It makes the juiciest, most flavorful baked salmon ever.

• soy sauce
• brown sugar
• garlic
• lemon pepper seasoning

If utilizing pores and skin-on salmon filets, place the salmon pores and skin facet up in order that the marinade can infuse taste into the salmon flesh.

A Note About Salmon: What Kind to Use

This recipe could be made with:

• particular person salmon filets
• one giant salmon filet

Individual salmon filets will range in measurement and thickness. Usually particular person salmon filets are bought in 4 to six-ounce items. The filets can vary in thickness from 1/2- to 1-inch thick, and it’s regular for a salmon filet to be thicker on one facet and taper thinly outward.

I’ve included baking directions within the recipe ⬇️ to accommodate for various sizes/thickness of salmon.

If utilizing a big filet of salmon, both a) lower it into items of equal measurement earlier than utilizing within the recipe OR b) marinade all the filet (in a dish that can accommodate the scale), bake as one giant filet, and lower into particular person serving-measurement items after baking. 

Shortcut Tip for This Baked Salmon

In an ideal world, this salmon ought to marinate for at the very least 2 hours for optimum taste.

However, I perceive higher than anybody that typically life will get in the way in which. Or you fail to plan forward. Or you determine you need salmon on the final minute and IT HAS TO BE THIS LIFE CHANGING BEST BAKED SALMON.

I get it.

If you might be brief on time, check out the notes part of the recipe. It lays out a quite simple plan for skipping the marinade time and as an alternative brushing the marinade over the salmon *twice*. It doesn’t impart fairly the identical taste punch as letting the salmon hand around in the marinade for a couple of hours, nevertheless it undoubtedly works in a pinch.

Last Tip + Air Fryer Instructions

The most necessary recommendation I may give you with regards to this finest baked salmon is: DO NOT OVER BAKE.

Over baked salmon is dry and unappealing, so hold a detailed eye on the baking time (as it’ll differ, barely, based mostly on the thickness of the salmon). When baked appropriately, the salmon might be soften-in-your-mouth buttery and tender.

This salmon does very properly cooked in an air fryer. Preheat the air fryer to 400 levels F. Place the salmon filets in a single layer. Cook for 7 to 9 minutes (actual time will range based mostly on model of air fryer and thickness of salmon).

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