Bang Bang Salmon – Rachel Cooks®

Bang Bang!

I’ve been on a bang bang kick these days and I’m not able to cease but! First, I made bang bang sauce, then I used the sauce to make bang bang hen, and now I’m saucing up baked salmon fillets. Bang bang sauce is creamy, spicy, candy, and tangy, including pop and pizzazz (and sure, some bang bang) to an on a regular basis type of dinner like baked salmon.

Serve bang bang salmon over rice with tender-crisp stir fried veggies and also you’ll really feel such as you’re consuming a restaurant meal!

Simple Bang Bang Salmon Recipe

Superior sauce. Candy and spicy is at all times a superb taste mixture for salmon (like this maple mustard baked salmon). The creamy bang bang sauce actually helps lock in moisture and ensures that the salmon is flaky and tender.

Fast and straightforward. This recipe comes collectively in only a smidge over half-hour. Make the sauce a day or two forward to avoid wasting much more time. This baked bang bang salmon recipe is an ideal weeknight meal, retaining issues fast and straightforward whereas nonetheless packing in a number of taste, diet, and loads of high-end enchantment.

Versatile. Serve bang bang salmon as a most important dish with a conventional facet, add it to a salad, dice it up for a meal bowl—you’ve obtained choices!

Ingredient Notes

• Salmon fillets: Contemporary or frozen each work, however you should definitely defrost frozen salmon first. The salmon could be skinless or skin-on.
• Olive oil: Oil helps the seasoning stick. You should use a special sort of oil should you desire.
• Seasonings: I exploit garlic powder, paprika, salt, and black pepper so as to add taste to the salmon itself so it’s not bland beneath the sauce.
• Bang bang sauce: I make home made bang bang sauce (the recipe is included), however swap in store-bought in order for you dinner on the desk even quicker. Understand that the sauce will hold for as much as every week within the fridge so you possibly can simply make it forward.
• Garnishes: When you don’t have to garnish the salmon, I extremely advocate including sliced inexperienced onions and/or sesame seeds as toppers. Chopped cilantro goes properly, too.

How one can Make Bang Bang Salmon

Put together. Preheat your oven to 400°F. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper or frivolously grease it with nonstick spray or a skinny layer of oil.

Season the salmon. Combine the garlic powder, paprika, salt and pepper in a small bowl. Pat the salmon dry utilizing clear paper towels and place it on the ready baking sheet. Organize the salmon on the ready baking sheet. Flippantly coat the fillets with oil after which use the seasoning combine to season the salmon.

Sauce the salmon. Whisk collectively the sauce components in a small bowl. Drizzle a couple of tablespoon of the bang bang sauce over every fillet, then unfold it evenly over the salmon (see cooking tip). Save the remainder of the sauce for once you serve the salmon.

Bake. Place the pan within the oven and bake the salmon for 15 to 17 minutes, or till the it reaches 145ºF on an prompt learn thermometer. If the temperature is barely lower than 145ºF once you verify it, that’s okay. The temperature will proceed to rise 5 or ten levels should you let the salmon relaxation 5 minutes or so. Should you don’t have a thermometer, the salmon is completed when it flakes simply.

Serve. Drizzle the reserved sauce over the salmon or serve it on the facet. Garnish as desired, and serve.

Recipe Choices

Make the sauce forward of time. Bang bang sauce will hold within the fridge for as much as every week. To get a head begin on the recipe, make it forward. I prefer to make a double batch and use the sauce for different meals, too! Should you desire, a bottle of bang bang sauce could be bought on the grocery retailer.

Air fry the salmon. Sure, you possibly can cook dinner bang bang salmon within the air fryer! I’d cook dinner it at 400ºF for 8 to 10 minutes (seek advice from my recipe for air fryer salmon, should you like).

Modify the spice stage. You may add extra sriracha for a spicier bang bang sauce, or cut back the quantity in order for you it milder.

Serving Strategies

Refrigerate: Retailer leftover bang bang salmon in an hermetic container within the fridge for two to three days. I don’t advocate freezing this recipe, each as a result of mayo-based sauces don’t freeze properly and since in my expertise, freezing cooked fish often produces lackluster outcomes. It’s edible however nothing you’d stay up for consuming!

Reheat: Place the salmon on a baking sheet and canopy it with foil. Bake at 350ºF for about 10 minutes, or till heated by. Alternatively, you possibly can microwave the salmon, however accomplish that rigorously, in 30-second intervals, to keep away from overcooking it.