Easy Salmon Marinade

Last weekend I bought a fabulous piece of fish at the newly opened Stavanger Fish Market. I marinated it using a simple “pantry” recipe with ingredients I already had in my pantry. Great for an easy family weekday dinner or for the times when you want to change it up from the usually dill/lemon/butter salmon routine.

Easy Salmon Marinade

Ingredients

1/4 cup 100% pure maple syrup or honey

1/4 cup soy sauce or tamari (*)

2-3 cloves garlic, finely minced

Dash of cayenne pepper (optional)

12 ounces fresh salmon (**)

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60 ml 100% pure maple syrup or honey

60 ml soy sauce or tamari (*)

2-3 cloves garlic, finely minced

Dash of cayenne pepper (optional)

340 grams fresh salmon (**)

(*) Tamari is a lower sodium, option instead of soy sauce. Many varieties are also gluten free.

(**) You can use salmon steaks or salmon filets with either the skin on or the skin off the fish. Buy the best fresh salmon you can afford but in a pinch, use defrosted frozen salmon in the recipe instead.

Directions

1 Place all of the ingredients into a large mixing bowl except the salmon. Whisk them together with a fork into they are mixed together very well.

2 Place the salmon into the bowl with the marinade. Cover bowl with cling film (plastic wrap) and let it sit on the countertop for 20 minutes.

3 Place the fish into a baking dish and pour all of the marinade on top. Cover with foil and bake in a pre-heated oven at 175 degrees C/350 degrees F/gas mark 4 for 20-25 minutes. Next, take the foil cover off the baking dish and let the fish cook for another 10-15 minutes.

The fish is cooked when it flakes easily and is a light pink inside the centre. For those of you with an internal thermometer, the fish is cooked when the internal temperature reaches 68 C/155 F.

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