Air fryer soy and ginger salmon
- Prepare
- less than 30 mins
- Cook
- less than 10 mins
- Serve
- Serves 2
A simple supper for two that’s packed with omega-3 and ready in under 15 minutes.
This recipe is part of an air fryer meal plan for two.
Each serving (minus the optional serving suggestion) provides 388 kcal, 31.9g protein, 19.2g carbohydrate (of which 18.5g sugars), 20.3g fat (of which 3.8g saturates), 1g fibre and 1.26g salt.
Ingredients
- 2 x fresh salmon fillets, each around 120g/4½oz
- sunflower oil, for greasing
- 1 tsp sesame seeds
- 4 spring onions, trimmed and thickly sliced
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the glaze
- ½ tsp sesame oil
- 2 tbsp runny honey
- 1 tbsp rich dark soy sauce
- 1 large garlic clove, crushed
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- ¼ tsp dried chilli flakes (optional)
To serve
- cooked rice
- long-stemmed broccoli or stir-fried vegetables
Method
Place each salmon fillet on a small sheet of oiled kitchen foil, skin-side side down. Bring up the sides of the foil up to create a lip that will hold the runny glaze.
Put the salmon fillets in their foil bowls on top of the crisper plate in your air fryer, leaving space between them for the air to flow. Mix the glaze ingredients together in a small bowl, then pour it over the salmon and sprinkle with the sesame seeds. Cook at 190C for 5 minutes.
Sprinkle with the spring onions and cook for 1 minute more, or until the salmon is cooked. Stand for 2 minutes before serving.
Serve with freshly cooked rice and broccoli or stir-fried vegetables, drizzled with any sticky juices that have collected at the bottom of the foil bowls.
Recipe tips
The ideal soy sauce for this dish is one that’s labelled rich and dark. It will be thicker than the ordinary kind and impart a richer flavour. You could use classic soy sauce instead, but the results won’t be the same.
Ground ginger from a jar works better than fresh ginger for this recipe, but you could also try using fine strips of stem ginger and 1 tablespoon of stem ginger syrup instead of 1 tbsp of the honey.
This recipe was tested using a 4–litre capacity air fryer. If yours has a much larger or smaller capacity, you will need to adjust the cooking times.
