Baked Spiced Salmon Fillet Recipe [+VIDEO] 🥘 MasalaHerb.com

Name: Baked Spiced Salmon Fillet Recipe
Prep time: 7 min
Cook time: 12 min
Total time: 19 min
Ingredients: 2 cloves Garlic (fresh, crushed); 1 Teaspoon Salt; ½ Teaspoon Black Pepper; 1½ Teaspoon Thyme; 1 Teaspoon Paprika (or Cayenne Pepper); 2 Tablespoon Olive Oil; 5 Salmon Fillet; Lemon slices (to garnish)

Helene Dsouza

Oven baked salmon in a spicy olive oil seasoning. 20 min tops to make this for dinner!

Total Time: 19 minutes

4.34 from 3 votes

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baked spiced salmon fillet for the family

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
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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.

cut salmon in and spread seasoning over the fish

Step 3

Cover baking dish with foil tin and bake.

Garnish baked fish with lemon slices.

cover with tin foil and bake, garnish 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

What salmon can you use?

This recipe uses a salmon filet. You can use fresh or frozen, and thawed salmon filet. Try to use fish that comes from a sustainable and fair place and fish that is antibiotic and hormone-free (you don't want that stuff in your body right?)

What temperature to bake salmon?

Bake your salmon filet covered at 350 Fahrenheit or 180 Celsius.

How long to bake salmon?

Salmon cooks really fast, the fish fillets will take about 10-12 minutes to cook through. Bake covered, to retain the moisture in the meat.

In what can I bake the salmon?

I use a rectangular casserole baking dish because that's the easiest way to cover the fish with tin foil. You can use a sheet pan laid out with parchment paper.

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