This glazed salmon and spinach salad recipe has an impressive list of health benefits longer than the ingredients. I listed all the vitamins and other superfood powers at the end of the post so you can see for yourself. And as an added bonus, your family and/or guests will think you slaved over this delicious meal. You can tell them how quick and simple it really was… or not.
Ingredients: (serves two)
- two pieces of salmon (about 8 ounces each)
- 4 teaspoons low-sodium soy sauce
- 4 teaspoons rice vinegar
- 2 teaspoons brown sugar
- 2 teaspoon grated fresh ginger
- 2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 1/4 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 1 1/2 cups baby spinach and arugula mix
- 2 hard-boiled eggs
- 1/4 small red onion, thinly sliced
- 6 cherry tomatoes, halved
Method:
- Boil eggs.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Whisk together soy, vinegar, sugar, ginger, lemon juice and mustard. Place salmon in baking dish. Pour glaze over salmon and turn once to moisten both sides. Bake with skin side down for approximately 15 minutes, basting frequently. (Oven times may vary.)
- While salmon bakes, arrange greens, onion and tomato on dinner plates. Top with egg slices.
- Serve salmon over spinach salad. The glaze will serve as a dressing. If desired, squeeze additional lemon juice. Sprinkle with sea salt and freshly ground pepper.
Health Benefits:
- Omega-3
- Protein
- Essential fatty acids
- Anti-oxidants
- Vitamin D
- Vitamin E
- Vitamin Bs
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin K
- Zinc
- Iron
- Copper
- Manganese
- Selenium
- Calcium
- Phosphorus
- Potassium
- Fiber
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That looks so simple and delicious! Our family loves salmon and spinach so this would be a definitely dinnertime fave. 🙂 Thanks for sharing.
I hope you enjoy it!
Looks great! I love salmon and I often use a soy sauce concoction on my pork chops but haven’t tried it on salmon before! Pinning.
I love salmon too. May have to try the marinade on pork chops:)
This looks DELICIOUS!
Thanks Michelle!
Looks delicious – I will definitely have to try this. Nice pictures, too! Thank you for sharing this recipe.
Thanks Kim!
I’m always on the lookout for more recipes for salmon. This looks great!
Thanks Colleen I hope you enjoy it!
This looks so good! I’m trying to cook fish this year (I eat it at restaurants but NEVER cook it at home) so this recipe looks like a great one to try.
Definitely! It is easy.
I have never even tasted salmon but you honestly made it look so good that I think that will be changing very soon! Yummy looking 🙂
Looks good! I ate a salmon salad last night, minus your yummy-sounding marinade. Must try this. I always feel virtuous when I eat salmon!
I had some trouble getting this to look similar. Mine was extremely watery; didn’t look like glaze (yours) at all. Any tips? =)
At 400 degrees I had very little glaze left in the casserole dish. I cooked mine on an upper shelf in the oven…
April – I went back and re-read my recipe to make sure I didn’t have a typo. I realize my pieces of salmon were much larger than 5 ounces – probably more like 8 ounces. This probably made a big difference in the amount of liquid absorbed during cooking. I’m sorry you weren’t happy with the way your salmon looked. I hope it tasted good:) I have changed my recipe to reflect larger portions. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. GGG
instead of using rice vinegar can i use regular vinegar? is there a difference?