Meet your new favorite quick and easy Sticky Sesame Baked Salmon recipe with Orange Sauce from Silvana’s Gluten Free and Dairy Free Kitchen Cookbook! It’s a healthy recipe your whole family will love!
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I’m delighted to tell you about a new cookbook, Silvana’s Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free Kitchen: Timeless Favorites Transformed. I’m sharing Silvana’s “go-to” recipe for Sticky Sesame Salmon with Orange Sauce, which I’m pretty confident that even non-fish eaters will love.
Quoted by my son…”Mom, this sauce is delicious!”
And, yes, he ate the salmon too 🙂
Disclosure: I was given a digital copy of Silvana’s Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free Kitchen to review and share a recipe from the book with my readers. As always, all opinions are 100% my own.
Meet Silvana
For those unfamiliar with Silvana Nardone, she’s a gluten-free cookbook author, personal transformation strategist, and co-founder of Via Viaggio CBD + adaptogen edibles.
Cookbook Review: Silvana’s Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free Kitchen
The book begins with a quick introduction to Silvana’s experience researching, creating, and testing gluten-free, dairy-free recipes for her own family and her readers who crave the comfort of home-cooked classic meals, just as all of us do.
In addition, the introduction includes a getting-started guide to gluten-free and dairy-free cooking, a list of pantry essentials and key ingredients, and Silvana’s own personal favorite products and brands.
The book is divided into the following chapters
- The Breakfast Club-Breakfast and Brunch
- Plenty of Dough-Breads and Flatbreads
- Let’s Get This Meal Started-Appetizers and Salads
- You’ll Be Bowled Over-Soups, Pasta, and Rice
- Meal Makeovers-Fake-Out Takeout, TV Dinners, and Restaurant Classic
- Sweet Success-Dessert Classics
- Back to Basics-Reinvented Baking Mixes and Dairy-Free Favorites
Although, to date, I have only made the super yummy Sticky Sesame Salmon with Orange Sauce, the following recipes are on my short-list to make…
- Raspberry-Nut Breakfast Bars
- Banana Chocolate Oat Cookies
- Cheesy Spinach-Artichoke Dip with Garlic Bechamel
- Avocado Gazpacho with Peaches and Corn
- Moo Shu Vegetables with Sesame Pancakes.
Buy the book! Silvana’s Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free Kitchen
Sticky Sesame Salmon Recipe & Nutrition Notes
- The salmon was so easy, moist, and delicious, and the fact that my son ate it all up makes it a definite addition to our family’s favorite recipes!
- The recipe calls for 2-4 tablespoons of sugar, but IMO, that would be too much. I used 1 tablespoon and thought it was perfectly sweet. Maple syrup or honey in place of the sugar would also be delicious.
- I used 1 tablespoon of some chili garlic sauce that I had on hand instead of the 2 tablespoons the recipe calls for, and it had a nice {not too spicy} kick which was perfect for my son. If I were to make it for just myself and Mr. Spicy, I would probably crank up the heat a little.
- The beauty of this recipe is that you can cook up a big batch of salmon for dinner and enjoy it with some veggies and rice to soak up the delicious sauce (Purple/Forbidden rice would be delicious), and then save the leftovers for a Salmon Salad the next day. I think Sticky Sesame Salmon with Orange Sauce would be deliciously served on top of my favorite Crunchy Asian Chopped Cabbage Salad with Peanut Dressing. Mmm…Hmmm….!
- Salmon is one of my favorite MIND Diet friendly and Mediterranean Diet friendly foods. It’s rich in anti-inflammatory healthy omega 3-s, beneficial for brain health, autoimmune disease, heart health, and overall health.
More Salmon Recipes You’ll Love
- Easy Smoked Salmon Sandwich with Avocado & Greens
- Miso Maple Broiled Salmon Nicoise Salad
- Protein Packed Salmon Power Bowl with Ponzu Sauce
- Easy Asian Pan-Seared Salmon Salad for One
Sticky Sesame Salmon with Orange Sauce
Ingredients
For the Sauce
- 1/4 cup ketchup
- 1/4 cup orange juice, preferably fresh squeezed
- 2-4 tablespoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons chili paste, such as sambal oelek, or to taste
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
For the Fish
- 4 6- ounce salmon fillets, skin removed
- Salt and black pepper
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/3 cup sesame seeds
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit.
- Make the sauce: In a large bowl, stir together the ketchup, orange juice, sugar, chili paste and sesame oil. Set aside.
- Make the fish: Season the salmon generously with salt and pepper, then drizzle with 2 tablespoons of the olive oil. Place the seeds on a plate and dredge the tops of the fillets in the sesame seeds to coat.
- In an ovenproof skillet, heat the remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil over medium-high heat. Add the salmon, sesame seed side down, to the pan and sear, turning once, until golden brown about 3 minutes on each side.
- Transfer the skillet to the oven and roast the salmon until cooked through, about 6 minutes.
- Generously brush with the orange sauce and serve.
Notes
Excerpted from SILVANA’S GLUTEN-FREE AND DAIRY-FREE KITCHEN © 2014 by Silvana Nardone. Reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
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