Macadamia Nut Maple Roasted Salmon
This Macadamia Nut Maple Roasted Salmon recipe is such a flavourful and delicious way to serve salmon. Made with 4 simple ingredients: salmon, macadamia nuts, sweet chili sauce and maple syrup.
Oh, this Macadamia Nut Maple Roasted Salmon, let me tell you, it is absolutely scrumptious and I really hope you make it! This quick recipe is simple enough for a weeknight, but ‘fancy’ enough for weekend dinners.
About this salmon recipe:
This recipe is for a large filet of salmon smothered with sweet chili sauce and maple syrup. Then crusted with chopped macadamia nuts, and roasted in the oven. It’s absolutely delicious, the flavour will amaze you…the sweetness from the sweet sauce and maple syrup, with the toasted macadamia nuts, is perfect with the roasted salmon. So good.
A quick and easy meal that looks so fancy!
Because this salmon is so easy to make, and has such big impact, it would make an amazing dish for any dinner party. It looks so fancy, but really it’s easy to make and could also be enjoyed any week night. Ready in about 35 minutes.
Maple Roasted Salmon Menu Idea:
You can serve this maple roasted salmon with a green vegetable such as a simple green salad, broccoli, lemon garlic broccolini, steamed green beans or your favourite vegetables. It’s also delicious with a side of rice or roasted potatoes.
Maple Roasted Salmon Recipe
- Macadamia Nuts: Use salted macadamia nuts and chop them. The amount of nuts you use can vary depending on how thick you want the nut crust on your salmon to be. You want enough to be able to have a good crust on your salmon after you have crushed them up. Refer to pictures.
- Salmon: We always use large salmon filets for this recipe, but you can also use salmon steaks or smaller, individual filets.
- How much salmon to use? The size of the salmon you use will depend on how many people you are serving. The size I have used in this recipe is enough for 8 servings, and so the ingredient measurements listed reflect this.
- Maple Syrup: Use 1/4 to 1/2 cup of pure maple syrup. We also like to drizzle the finished salmon with a little extra syrup.
- Chili Sauce: Use sweet chili sauce or teryaki sauce is great too!
- Salmon Baking Tip! A very general rule to baking salmon is to bake it approximately 10 minutes for each 1 inch of thickness.
- Tip! If the macadamia nut mixture doesn’t look golden at serving time, you can broil it for a couple of minutes, just long enough to golden up the nuts. Make sure you watch it closely under the broiler, you don’t want the nuts to burn!
- How to tell if the salmon is cooked: The easiest way to tell if salmon is cooked through is to gently press down on the top of it with a fork and it will flake easily.
- Leftovers: Any leftover salmon keeps well in an airtight container in the refrigerator for about 3 days. I don’t recommend freezing them.
Macadamia Nut Maple Roasted Salmon
This Macadamia Nut Maple Roasted Salmon recipe is such a flavourful and delicious way to serve salmon. Made with 4 simple ingredients: salmon, macadamia nuts, sweet chili sauce and maple syrup.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 35 minutes
- Yield: 8 servings 1x
- Category: Fish and Seafood
- Method: Oven
Ingredients
- 1 piece of salmon – I used a fillet of salmon (which is a big piece of fish, almost 2 inches in thickness in some spots. This piece basically filled our baking sheet. This size is enough to feed 4 adults and a couple of kids!)
- 2 cups macadamia nuts, chopped
- 1/2 cup sweet chili sauce or teriyaki sauce
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
- salt and fresh ground pepper (to taste)
- a little extra maple syrup to drizzle on after baking for a garnish
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F.
- Lay a piece of parchment paper or tin foil on a rimmed baking sheet.
- Then lay down the salmon fillet, skin side down.
- Generously spread the chili sauce (or teriyaki sauce) on the top of the salmon. Don’t skimp on the amount!
- Then drizzle on the maple syrup. You can use a lot if you really want the flavour and the sweetness of the syrup.
- Then add the crushed macadamia nuts, covering the top of the salmon, making a crust.
- Generously season with salt and pepper.
- For the size of salmon that I used, I baked it for about 20 minutes (a very general rule to baking salmon is to bake it approximately 10 minutes for each 1 inch of thickness). Check to make sure the nuts aren’t getting too brown. If they are browning too quickly, cover the salmon with tin foil and continue baking.
- When the salmon is done you can drizzle it with a little extra maple syrup.
- Serve immediately. Enjoy!
Keywords: oven roasted salmon, nut crusted salmon, chili sauce salmon
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I hope you enjoy this maple salmon recipe! Have a delicious day!
Please note that this recipe was originally published in 2012. I have since updated this post with new images and recipe tips!
This looks amazing! I love salmon so I’m always looking for new recipes with it! Thanks!
Yum! This looks so good.
It does look heavenly … and I love the “goop” word.
Looks awesome!
Stopping by from Nifty Thrifty! We’re having salmon tonight, and was looking for a new recipe. This sounds so very good and I’ll give it a try! I promise not to skimp on the “goop” amount! I’d be tickled if you’d shared this over at Sunday’s Best tonight!
Thanks Cathy! I hope you love it!
Jo-Anna
oh, delicious! salmon has such an amazing color, I think it’s the most photogenic fish, haha!
I love your recipe! Would you come over to Cast Party Wednesday at Lady Behind The Curtain and share it with us?
Thanks, I hope to see you there! ~Sheryl~ http://www.ladybehindthecurtain.com/?p=33671
Hi, it’s Food on Friday time again on Carole’s Chatter. The theme this time is salmon! Yum. It would be neat if you linked this post in. This is the link . Have a good week.
Tried this recipe tonight with the sweet chili sauce and it was excellent. I was a little nervous that the flavor of the sweet chili and the maple syrup would clash but I was pleasantly surprised and so was my fiancé. Thanks for sharing!
Will be trying this sooner than later!