Recipe: Baked salmon fillet with soy sauce and dill

My parents bought some salmon fillets for me to cook for the kids. My favorite cooking style for fish now is to bake them in the oven as it is easy and healthy. I bake them in foil parcels, so there is hardly any cleaning up to do afterwards too. :)

Baked salmon with soy sauce

Salmon is an oily fish which has high protein, high omega-3 fatty acids and high vitamin-D content. Personally, I prefer salmon trout  over salmon, but kids would happily eat either fish, as long as it is tasty.

The salmon fillets are baked with a simple sauce of olive oil, soy sauce and ginger wine - similar to the sauce we use for steaming fish Chinese-style. Since my dill plant is flourishing, I plucked a handful and topped it on the fish - it gives off a delicate flavour to the fish. Cooking them in tin foil parcels keeps the fish moist too.

Simple and flavorful

Baked salmon with soy sauce and dill
Recipe by Baby Sumo
Preparation time: 2 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Serves 2-3


Ingredients
2 x (200g) salmon or salmon trout fillets
2 tbsp light soy sauce
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 tbsp ginger wine
A handful fresh dill
Freshly ground black pepper


1. Preheat oven to 180°C.

2. Prepare a piece of tin foil enough to form a parcel for the two fish fillets and place inside a baking tray.

3. Wash the fish fillet and pat dry with a kitchen towel. Place fish in the tin foil and drizzle with ginger wine, light soy sauce and olive oil. Place half the dill on top of the fish. Bring the sides of the tin foil together, and pinch to seal and form a parcel.

4. Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes, once a skewer/chopstick can go through, the fish is cooked.

5. Remove foil from baking tray and place onto serving plate. Garnish with remaining dill on top and some freshly ground black pepper.

*I am submitting this to the Little Thumbs Up "Soy Beans" event organized by Bake for Happy Kids, my little favourite DIY and hosted by Mich of Piece of Cake. You can link your soy recipes here.


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