Spicy Salmon
This is a variant of plain Costco Salmon, optionally using Costco’s big bags of single portions of frozen boneless, skinless salmon, based on Wellplated’s Spicy Baked Salmon. I don’t use foil or broil.
Ingredients
- 2–3 portions of frozen Costco salmon, defrosted
- olive oil
- 1 tsp. kosher salt
- 2 tsp. brown sugar
- ½ tsp. chili powder
- cayenne pepper to taste (optional)
- ½ tsp. smoked paprika (optional)
- 1 lime, zested
- 2 T. cilantro (optional)
- fresh chive or scallion to taste (optional)
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350° with convection.
- Pour olive oil and squeeze lime into a small baking dish.
- Rub the salmon in it.
- Sprinkle with remaining ingredients.
- Bake 15 minutes or until just cooked through.
Variants
Try it with fresh salmon. The original recipe recommended wild caught Alaskan, skin on or off, used a whole teaspoon of chipotle chili powder for this much fish (which may work if you can find that exact chili powder), and did not include cayenne.
Other spice options include a generous coating of Sri Lankan roasted curry powder, Ajika, Berbere (pictured above), Ras el Hanout, or za'atar.
Kara Lydon recommends baking salmon for 20–25 minutes at 300°.
