Baked salmon with orange and ginger

You'll feel super-virtuous when you make this delicious baked salmon for dinner. Not only is salmon a healthy choice but the clean flavours of orange juice and grated ginger really bring this pink fish to life.

Ingredients

  • 800g salmon fillet

    skin removed, pin-boned

  • 2 tbsp soy sauce

  • 1 tbsp rice wine vinegar

  • 1 cup orange juice

  • 2 tsp ginger

    freshly grated

  • 1 clove small garlic

    minced

  • 1 tbsp brown sugar

  • 2 tbsp fresh dill leaves

  • 3 spring onions

    finely sliced (garnish)

Allergy Advice

Contains Fish

Contains Gluten

Contains Soy

Equipment

  • 1 shallow oven tray or dish
  • 1 baking paper

Instructions

  1. Heat oven to 200°C or 180°C fan-forced.
  2. Line a shallow oven tray or dish with baking paper and place fillet on baking paper.
  3. Make a few cuts in the salmon fillet (to allow the sauce to infuse the fillet).
  4. Combine soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, orange juice, ginger, garlic and brown sugar and pour over fillet massaging the sauce into those cuts.
  5. Place the tray into the oven and cook for 12 minutes for rare, or 17 minutes for medium.
  6. Sprinkle over dill and spring onions.

Notes

Tip
It’s best to get the fillet for this dish at a fish shop and have someone pin-bone the fillet for you.
Tip
For a darker colour on top of the salmon, place it under the grill for the last 2-3 minutes.
Tip
This is fantastic with a green salad or steamed snow peas/broccolini.
Tip
Recipe written by Jay Rogers from The Moodie Foodie.
Variation
I’ve also pan-fried some oranges for this dish. This is totally optional, but it looks lovely on the dish and gives an extra orange-flavoured kick for anyone who wants it.

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