Hoisin Glazed Baked Salmon Recipe

Name: Hoisin Glazed Baked Salmon
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 2 Tbsp hoisin sauce; 2 teaspoons soy sauce; 1 Tbsp lime juice (can sub rice vinegar); 1-2 teaspoons sugar; 1 large garlic clove, smashed and minced; 4 6-ounce salmon fillets; Vegetable oil, for greasing the broiler pan

What Is Hoisin?

Have you ever cooked with hoisin sauce? It's that thick, dark, sweet, sour, salty dipping sauce that you spread on the thin pancakes for Chinese mu shu pork.

Hoisin can be used for all sorts of dishes and is terrific as glaze for baked salmon. In this recipe salmon fillets marinate for about 30 minutes in a hoisin-based marinade, and then are quickly broiled.

It's such a quick and easy way to cook salmon I highly recommend keeping a jar of this sauce on hand.

Simple Hoisin Glazed Salmon — Elise Bauer

By the way, when I first started living on my own decades ago, and cooking for myself, I would buy some fresh fish at the market, put it in the fridge, cook it several days later, and wonder why it never tasted as good as my mother's. The reason? It was no longer fresh!

Cook Fresh Salmon the Day You Buy It

Now, having been duly trained by my notoriously picky seafood-loving father and my fisherman friends, if I'm buying fresh fish instead of frozen, I cook it the day I buy it. I look for the freshest looking fish at the counter, nothing tired, dull, or remotely fishy smelling.

These salmon fillets were the most gorgeous fillets on ice at the market the other day, and the result of the quick broil with a hoisin glaze? Transcendent.

More Quick Salmon Recipes

Hoisin Glazed Baked Salmon

Prep Time 5 mins

Cook Time 10 mins

Marinating 30 mins

Total Time 45 mins

Servings 4 servings

Skin-on salmon is fine to use in this recipe. Just marinate it skin-side up, and cook it skin-side down.

2 tablespoons hoisin sauce
2 teaspoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon lime juice (can sub rice vinegar)
1 to 2 teaspoons sugar
1 large clove garlic, smashed and minced
4 (6-ounce) salmon fillets
Vegetable oil, for greasing the broiler pan

Make the hoisin marinade:

Mix the hoisin sauce, soy sauce, lime juice, sugar, and garlic together in a bowl. Taste and adjust to your taste (more lime juice if too sweet, more sugar if too acidic).
Marinate the salmon:

Coat the salmon pieces in the marinade and chill for 30 minutes to 1 hour.

Elise Bauer

Elise Bauer
Broil the salmon:

Set the rack in your broiler to about 6 inches underneath the heating element. Turn on the broiler. Lightly grease a foil-lined broiling pan with vegetable oil.

Arrange the salmon pieces skin side down (if your fillets still have skin on one side) on the pan and paint with a little more of the marinade.

Broil until done, about 5 to 10 minutes, depending on the thickness of the salmon fillets and the heat of your broiler.

Elise Bauer

Elise Bauer

Serve with steamed rice. Asparagus or Asian Coleslaw would work well as side dishes for this salmon.

Nutrition Facts (per serving)
410	Calories
25g	Fat
6g	Carbs
38g	Protein

Nutrition Facts
Servings: 4
Amount per serving
Calories	410
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 25g	32%
Saturated Fat 4g	22%
Cholesterol 107mg	36%
Sodium 379mg	16%
Total Carbohydrate 6g	2%
Dietary Fiber 0g	1%
Total Sugars 4g
Protein 38g
Vitamin C 8mg	39%
Calcium 31mg	2%
Iron 1mg	4%
Potassium 682mg	15%
*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.

Nutrition information is calculated using an ingredient database and should be considered an estimate. In cases where multiple ingredient alternatives are given, the first listed is calculated for nutrition. Garnishes and optional ingredients are not included.