Chili Lime Baked Salmon is a complete dinner – all made on one tray! Crunchy golden roast potatoes with a chili, lime and honey glazed salmon that’s beautifully caramelised and juicy on the inside. Oh – and beans. Because it wouldn’t be a complete meal without some greens!
Like the Brown Sugar Broiled Salmon with Vegetables, this is a terrific one tray salmon recipe that’s quick to prepare!
Chilli Lime Baked Salmon
In my humble opinion, salmon is best cooked in a smoking skillet to get the skin shatteringly crisp. Serve it on mashed potatoes with a lemon herb cream sauce and a side of perfectly roasted baby carrots = restaurant quality dinner. I swear, you’d pay $30 for that at a fancy restaurant.
And I’ll go to that effort for a real fancy dinner party when I’m cooking to impress. BUT for midweek, I don’t have the time or energy. Too much washing up!
So for midweek, this is more the type of meal I make. Tastes fantastic, it’s healthy and it’s a complete meal all made on one baking tray. 🙂
The trick with one tray baked dinners is timing it so everything is perfectly cooked at the same time. Potatoes take longer than salmon and beans, so I just pop the potatoes in first for 20 minutes to get them started, then add the salmon and beans 20 minutes into the baking time. That way you get golden roast potatoes without overcooking the salmon and beans.
The salmon is lightly marinated just for 20 minutes in lime. If you marinate it for much longer, then the lime sort of “cures” the surface of the salmon. Definitely do not marinate it overnight. The acid in the lime juice changes the texture of the flesh, almost breaking it down. Other proteins can handle it, but fish is too delicate.
I love the combination of chili, garlic, honey and lime. It’s a classic combination – fresh, zesty and perfect for seafood. To add the kick of chili, I use this neat little trick I learned watching a Jamie Oliver show. Just pop chilis in the freezer, then you can grate them straight into or onto whatever you need. I call it “chili dust” and I love it! I hardly ever finely chop chilis anymore. 🙂
Yummy! Crunchy roast potatoes, a beautifully caramelised salmon with a zesty, garlicky glaze and a fresh kick of chili…I’ll happily have this for dinner any night of the week!
Oh – and the beans. Yes, I crammed beans on the tray too, to make it a complete meal! Just pile them into a corner of the tray, that way they kind of “steam”. Perfect!
Hope your week isn’t looking too hectic! Have a great one – Nagi x
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One Tray Oven Baked Honey Chili Lime Salmon with Potatoes and Beans
Ingredients
- 3 pieces of salmon (5 - 7 oz / 150 - 200g each, skin on or off)
Marinade
- 1 large lime (or 2 small ones) - 1 1/2 tsp zest + 3 tbsp lime juice
- 1 1/2 tbsp honey
- 1 tbsp soy sauce (or fish sauce)
- 2 garlic cloves , minced
Roast Potatoes
- 14 oz / 450 g baby potatoes , halved (Note 1)
- 1 1/2 tbsp melted butter (or olive oil)
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1 garlic clove , minced (optional)
Beans
- 8 oz / 250 g green beans , trimmed
- 1 tsp olive oil
Garnish and seasoning
- 1/2 tsp salt
- Black pepper
- 1 birds eye chili , frozen whole (or finely chopped unfrozen chili)
- 1 lime
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180C/350F and place a large rimmed baking tray in the oven.
- Combine the Marinade ingredients in a bowl or ziplock bag. Add the salmon and set aside to marinate for 20 minutes (while the potatoes are roasting). (Note 2)
- Toss the Roast Potato ingredients in a bowl. Remove the tray from the oven and pour the potatoes onto the tray. Place in the oven and roast for 20 minutes. (Note 3)
- Combine the Beans ingredients into bowl you used for the potatoes (so residual butter sticks to beans) and toss.
- Remove salmon from the Marinade, reserving the Marinade.
- Remove tray from the oven. Move the potatoes to one side and place the salmon in the middle, skin side down. Pile the beans into one corn of the tray (don't spread them out, they will overcook).
- Sprinkle over the salt and pepper all over everything on the tray.
- Drizzle some Marinade on each salmon, then place the tray into the oven and bake for 4 minutes per 1/2 inch / 5 minutes per 1.5 cm of thickness (thickest part of the salmon). My salmon was 1.25 inches / 3 cm thick so I baked it for 10 minutes. (Note 4)
- Turn the grill/broiler onto maximum. (Note 5) Drizzle the remaining Marinade onto the salmon and grill for 2 minutes or until light golden on top.
- Rest for 3 minutes. Use a grater to grate frozen chili and lime zest over the salmon. Serve with lime wedges on the side.
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This is the perfect midweek dinner! I am pretty sure I have some salmon in my freezer. Loving Jamie’s tip, just soooo easy! Thanks for sharing it 🙂 and saving my kitchen with this amazing one tray recipe!
Thanks so much Oana! 🙂 N x
This sounds and looks so good Nagi! I’ll have to find a way to make it when I go back to the states for holiday. It would be very difficult to find good salmon here, unless you’re a good restaurant ordering it. I won’t buy fish in the stores here, only if we can get it fresh when the fishermen bring it in. My problem won’t be the green beans, it’s the salmon, most of my family isn’t crazy about that, only me. I also love the chili dust idea you got from Jaime Oliver, he’s just great!. We use a lot of scotch bonnets and habenero’s here and I’ve made the mistake of rubbing my eyes after! No fun.
Oh Cathy….I feel your pain. I once made a marinade using about 10 chilis then I rubbed my eyes afterwards, it was torture!! You could easily swap out the salmon for chicken, just bake it for the entire time rather than popping it in midway through baking 🙂 Or another type of fish! N x
Please don’t judge me, Nagi, but I wanted to lay down on that tray, right next to a piece of salmon. What does that say about me? OK, maybe I don’t want to know, but I do know for certain this is one PHAT salmon dish; phenomenal job with this post!
Thanks so much Dan, that’s so nice of you to say!! The description of you wanting to lie down next to a piece of salmon absolutely cracks me up – what a vision! (But also, what a compliment!! He he he!!!) N x
oh goodness, that’s one perfect tray! i love salmon and potatoes and chili lime! yes yes
Thanks Lindsay! It is a pretty safe flavour combo 🙂 Can’t go wrong!
This sounds wonderful. Based on the nutrition, though, I would make it 4 servings. This will have to wait until I get home and have a stove again…
So glad you like the look of it Susan! Really is yummy 🙂 N x
I love you Nagi… Your email arrives at 5pm UK as hubby leaves work… It takes 45-55 mins and yummy dinner…
If only he ate fish and or meat… Im using soya pieces (sortalikechook) sorta…. I’ll have salmón.
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HA!! I love it!! And still dinner on one tray! Your hubby is so lucky that he arrives home to a fresh home cooked meal by you 🙂 Actually, come to think of it, soya pieces would work well! I’ve baked them before, not with this glaze, but with other glazes 🙂 Hope you both enjoyed it! 🙂
Nagi…my goals for during the week are creating one pot meals that are worthy of my taste buds 🙂 I love this one…your potatoes look so perfect and golden and lovely. But I LOVE that chili trick!!! Ahhh I learn so much from you and Jaime 🙂 Another winner Nagi! How can I create my own recipes when I spend so much time making yours 🙂
Ha ha! You create amazing recipes Mila! Looking forward to reading the french toast one….. 🙂
‘Chili Dust’?! Oh my gawd….. how have I never thought of this! You are a rock star! This is deliciously brilliant! And this chili dust sounds fantastic on the glorious salmon and veggies – I LOVE some good heat in my food! I’ll be using your trick from now on 🙂
It’s cool, isn’t it? I thought you might find it useful 🙂 Just make sure you use them straight out of the freezer cause as soon as they defrost it’s impossible to create the “dust” effect! 🙂
Nagi, this looks so yummy! I crave fish, but I can’t cook it in my house because of my vegetarian partner. Can I come to your house? 😉
Oh bugger! I wasn’t sure if your partner was 100% veg or was ok with seafood 🙁 OH I know! Wack a hunk of cauliflower or eggplant on the tray for your partner and YOU can have yourself a luscious, juicy fillet of salmon ….. still a one tray dinner!! He he!!
Oh my gosh, I LOVE your chili grating trick!!!
A few weeks ago, I literally tortured myself for about 3 hours after getting ‘chili burn’ on my fingers. It felt like I’d held my hand in a hot fire.
I also LOVE this idea. I often make salmon and roasted veggies and love it, but I think I should branch out a bit and try this. It’s great that even the beans are roasted on the same tray, because I can definitely do without getting out any extra pans mid-week, plus I find boiled green beans a bit watery and boring. 🙂
I know, isn’t that grating trick cool?? And because you just grate it on at the end, it literally only requires a tiny bit 🙂 Jamie Oliver rocks! 🙂
What an interesting trick with the chilis – thanks for passing that along! This looks like such a drool-worthy and fresh meal. I better go pick up some salmon…
It’s cool isn’t it? Jamie Oliver!! Worth watching his insane 15 minute meals – exhausting as it is to watch (and some of his dodgy shortcuts!) but sometimes you pick up great tips! N x
Crunchy golden roast potatoes! Are there four more magic words?!
As usual – concise, hilarious and to the point!!! 😉
For a second I thought you put everything on the tray and into the oven at the same time. Overcooked salmon! Then I read your method. Phew!
And yum!
I wish I could cook with green beans as often as I’d like. For some reason a particular somebody doesn’t like the squeaky texture. I mean, really?
That’s the most hilarious reason for hating a veggie I’ve ever heard! A friend of mine hates corn – claims it smells like….well, you can probably guess. I have another friend who doesn’t eat “bouncy” things (seriously – weirdest ever).
It would be a travesty to throw everything on the tray at the same time. Especially because I’m Japanese by background i.e. country of sushi!! 😉
That’s a brilliant weeknight meal but I’ll have to say, my friends wouldn’t mind this for a dinner party.
My friends wouldn’t mind either! 😉
The worst part of dinner for me is the cleaning up despite the fact that I’m a clean-as-you-go person. I appreciate any recipe that utilizes the least amount of cookware. I’m loving this salmon recipe! Not only does it look amazing, it’s all cooked in one tray. And if I really want to cheat, I can even line it with a layer of aluminum foil for even easier or no pan washing…
HA! You’re my kind of cook, I need even thought about lining the baking tray with foil! I’m a “clean up as you go” type too 🙂 I’m making broccoli soup right now and the only dirty thing is the pot itself. I’m about to whizz it with a stick blender and I’ll clean that before I serve the soup. I’m nuts! 🙂
Love that chilli dust trick. What a fantastic idea and chicken and potatoes look amazing. But I hate green beans 🙂
Whhaat?! I don’t get this green bean hating thing!! I have a friend who hates them too…what’s wrong with green beans? I don’t GET IT??!!! 😉
Probably the whole overcooked 70s way of cooking vegetables!
I have no idea why soggy boiled brussel sprouts when out of fashion!! 😉
I love the idea of cooking a whole meal on a single baking sheet – it fits my taste better than a typical casserole. The flavors in this are just perfect AND salmon is just coming in to season here. I can’t wait to try this!!
Thanks Marissa! I know, it’s something different to the usual one-pot meals, isn’t it? I didn’t realise salmon is seasonal! We have them year round in Australia. 🙂 Hope you had a lovely weekend Marissa! 🙂
H Nagi! Chili dust!! YES!! I love one pot or one tray meals! The beans are just starting to come on in the garden, as are the new potatoes and I have salmon in the freezer – happy me! I also have peppers out there! Love the tip about freezing and grating them! You, my friend, are a culinary visionary! 🙂
Your own beans and potatoes? Really? That’s incredible! Dinner from your own garden – WOW!!
Oh no, I can’t take credit for the chili dust! That was a Jamie Oliver idea 🙂 Hope you had a great weekend Dorothy! I see an email from you in my inbox, will reply later this arvo!! N x