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Ginger Garlic Baked Salmon - the best and easiest Asian salmon marinade made with delicious ginger and garlic. The result is moist, flavorful, and juicy.
The Best Baked Salmon
This baked salmon recipe comes from my very popular ginger garlic baked chicken. It is one of the best salmon recipes ever!
Imagine baking the salmon with some ginger, garlic, honey, soy sauce, and oyster sauce.
Ginger and garlic are two of my favorite ingredients. I never run out of them in my kitchen.
In Asian cooking, they are two of the most important ingredients that impart amazing aromas and flavors to all kinds of food, especially when they are used to marinate protein such as chicken, meat, or seafood such as salmon.
The end result is SO good. The salmon is extremely flavorful and delightful.
Ingredients
- Salmon
- Ginger
- Garlic
- Soy sauce
- Oyster sauce
- Honey
- Sesame oil
- White pepper
- Salt
See the recipe card for full information on ingredients.
Frequently Asked Questions
Salmon will turn pink when it cooks. Use a knife to poke the thickest part after about 7 minutes of cooking. If the meat begins to flake and still has a little of that translucency, it’s cooked!
Salmon should reach an internal temperature of 145 degrees Fahrenheit.
This recipe has 83 calories per serving.
What To Serve With This Recipe
This dish is best served on top of steamed rice. For a wholesome meal and easy weeknight dinner, I recommend the following recipes.
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Ginger Garlic Baked Salmon
Ingredients
- 1 lb (500g) salmon, cut into 2-3 pieces
- 1 piece ginger, peeled and chopped (2-inch/5cm)
- 5 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped
- 1 1/2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1/2 tablespoon oyster sauce
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 3 dashes white pepper
- 1 pinch salt
Instructions
- Rinse the salmon and pat it dry with paper towels. Add the ginger and garlic to the salmon and gently rub them in. Add the remaining ingredients, stirring to coat the salmon evenly with all the seasonings.
- Set aside to marinate for at least 30 minutes, or preferably for 2 hours in the fridge.
- Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C). Line a cookie sheet with greased aluminum foil and place the salmon on it. Bake for 15 minutes in the middle of the oven, or until the surface turns brown or slightly charred. Serve warm with rice.
Notes
- If the ginger and garlic are burned on the surface of the salmon, scrape them off before serving.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
The marinate for this recipe is just so good. After trying it with chicken and salmon, I threw in some minced chillies tonight and marinate a big flat piece of fillet. Then pan-fried it with medium heat. Very very good with white rice. This marinate is so versatile! Many thanks!!
Hi Lily, that’s a great idea. I will have to do it with fillet. Thanks for trying my recipe!
My husband and I are young married couple just moved into a new home and have zero cooking skills. I had only 20mins to prepare this yesterday but the outcome was so good my husband asked for more! Mind you I was a disastrous cook, but this one kind of made me LEVEL UP, y’know? I might need to buy your recipe book. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Aiena, thanks for trying my recipe, I am so glad your husband enjoys my ginger garlic baked salmon. You need to cook more from my blog! :)
This is back on the menu for dinner tonight. My 11-year-old daughter specifically requested for this! One of the very few dishes that she really likes. We all do! We eat it with steamed brown rice and a side of broccoli. Thanks again for this delicious dish!
Hi Anna, thanks so much for trying my ginger garlic baked salmon recipe! :)
I just have a couple of questions…I do not have oyster sauce or white pepper. Can these just be omitted or are there any substitutes for these ingredients?
Thanks!
If don’t have oyster sauce, you can use soy sauce but it’s not going to be as delicious.
I wish you had mentioned the marinating in the prep time, or as a separate note. Not really accurate to say there is only 10 minutes needed for prep time when you are supposed to marinate for at least 30 minutes!
To me prep time is active time when you have to do something.
This threw my timing off as well. We ate pretty late that night. Maybe say 10 minutes prep/30 to 90 minutes marinate. It was, however, worth the wait. Delicious. Thanks for the recipe.
You don’t have to marinate long, you can bake right away.
My local store had salmon steaks on sale, so I’m looking for some good recipes. Do you think this recipe would work with salmon steaks instead of fillets? Or would another method of cooking or another one of your recipes work better? Thank you so much!
Hi, I am curious as to what the green, leafy garnish is on top of the salmon? Thanks!
They are just chopped parsley as garnishing.
I, too, was wondering what you put on for garnish. I noticed that you also used sesame seeds. Neither of these items were listed in your ingredients. It’s a little pet peeve of mine when recipes are not complete. Sometime I print off the recipe and take it to the store only to review the online site and find that not everything was listed. Maybe in the future you could include your garnish ingredients as well, if only to appease your fans with similar peeves. Looking forward to make this for dinner tonight! Thank you!
The sesame seeds are there for my photos to look petty, not really adding new taste or texture, and hence it’s not in the recipe.
I understand, and the photo was amazing, but I, too, would like my dishes to look pretty when presented. Presentation is a very important part of any great meal. I did make the dish last night, and it was wonderful!! Again, thank you for a wonderful recipe!
Hi am having this for dinner right now, and it is very delicious! Sweet and tender juicy salmon. One bite and my boy exclaimed “Wow very yummy!” and I totally agree after trying it. Thank you for the recipe!
Hi thanks for trying my ginger garlic baked salmon recipe. :)
Hi Rasa! I am writing from Argentina. I look into your recipe and I found it awesome! so I decide to cook this ginger garlic baked salmon. Here is not easy to find some cooking stuff, but I could. Now, I start writing my own blog and I’d like to write about your recipe in Spanish (my language) to share here, Do you mind if I translate in my own words your recipe with my own pictures? Also, I will add your link. Looking forward to hear about it! Thank you, Lucy
Yes that is fine.
Well put together recipe. Very light yet full of flavor. Marinated for 1.5 hours and Mixed the cooking juices with soy sauce for the rice. Is will be my go to recipe as well as your kung pao. Wish the banner adds weren’t choking up the website.
Thanks for your comment. Do the banner ads interfere with your browsing of my site and getting to my recipes? If not, I think I’d like to keep things the way it is. Thanks!
Thank you for this great recipe. I am making this again today and this is my third time so far in cooking this since I found your blog about a month ago. I followed everything written in your recipe and it was yummy. We loved, loved, loved it!! This will be a staple in my dinner list. Thanks again.
Hi Arlene, thanks for trying my ginger garlic baked salmon recipe. I am so happy you love it. Do try out more recipes, they are all good. :)