Baked Spiced Salmon Fillet Recipe

Perfectly cooked moist oven-baked salmon fillet prepared and enhanced with healthy spices.

This dish isn't spicy hot but rather aromatic. Prepare your salmon fillet and enjoy a low-carb quick and easy dinner meal.

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• 🧄 Ingredients that you will need
• 🔪 How to bake this spiced salmon dish?
• 📜 More Seasoning options
• 🥣 Serving
• 💡 What to do with cooked leftovers?
• 💭 FAQs
• 👁️ More Salmon Dinner Meal Ideas
• 📖 Recipe
• 💬 Comments

🧄 Ingredients that you will need

• salmon fillet - fresh or frozen
• fresh garlic
• seasoning - thyme, cayenne or paprika, black pepper and salt
• olive oil
• lemon slices to garnish (optional)

🔪 How to bake this spiced salmon dish?

Here is an overview of how to prepare this dish from scratch within minutes.

The complete recipe with metric and US measurements is located at the bottom of the printable recipe card.

Step 1

Combine the spices with olive oil.

Step 2

Place salmon fillets into a casserole baking dish. Make cuts into salmon.

Spread seasoning over salmon and rub it in.

Step 3

Cover baking dish with foil tin and bake.

Garnish baked fish with lemon slices.

📜 More Seasoning options

This recipe has a very simple seasoning. I did that because I want you to be able to make this dish. The more seasoning and I might spook some of you.

So for the adventurous, I'm sharing some more spice and herb seasoning options. Use one of these options but not together!

• ginger - a pinch freshly grated or powdered. Give it an Asian touch.
• tamarind paste - a tablespoon for a tart and rich undertone.
• cumin and coriander seeds - ½ teaspoon each for an Indian flavor approach
• turmeric - ½ tsp, healthy and also very Indian. You can add it to the cumin and coriander.
• dijon mustard - a tablespoon to pep up your salmon
• oregano and rosemary - for Mediterranean flavors.

You can also add 1 tablespoon of a seasoning blend to the existing basic seasoning in the recipe, such as Italian seasoning, Herbes de Provence, or Za'atar.

🥣 Serving

I totally recommend cutting some lemon or lime slices to serve along with the fish. Citrus flavors just take the dish to a whole new level!

We love salmon at home and so we tend to serve most of our baked salmon meals with cooked instant wheat berries.

Parsley potatoes and aromatic rice with clove is another favorite.

Feel free to roast some root vegetables such as carrots, rutabaga, turnips, beets, and potatoes and serve them with your fish.

If you want a sauce with that, I recommend a hollandaise served along with the fish.

Are you looking for more baked salmon dinner meals? The parchment-cooked salmon with herbs and the brown sugar-glazed salmon are all yours!

💡 What to do with cooked leftovers?

Store your cooked salmon leftovers in an airtight container in your fridge and use them up within 3 days.

I don't recommend freezing leftovers, cooked fish shouldn't be frozen because it's not healthy and it's just not right.

I love turning the salmon fillet into chunks, which I then add to pasta, rice, and mix into cooked veggies.

You can just warm up your whole salmon fillets and enjoy it the same way as I described in the serving options. Just don't overheat or else the fish will get dry and boring.

💭 FAQs

👁️ More Salmon Dinner Meal Ideas

• Salmon with fresh Herbs and Butter baked in Parchment
• Individual Salmon Wellington
• Salmon in White Wine Sauce over Tagliatelle Pasta

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