These salmon recipes give you creamy skillet dinners, oven toppings, grilled fillets, air fryer portions and salmon patties. Choose a cooking method and serving style, then check the full recipe for the fish size and starting ingredients. Some include rice, vegetables or buns; other salmon mains need a separately chosen side.
- Creamy and Stuffed Salmon Recipes
- Oven and Broiler Salmon Recipes
- Air Fryer Salmon and a Rice Bowl
- Grilled Salmon and Patties
Check whether a recipe calls for raw fillets, cubed fish or canned cooked salmon. Portion thickness affects the cooking sequence, and a stuffed fillet has different checks from a plain one. Several salmon recipes reserve clean sauce before raw-fish contact; follow the individual method for that stage and for any separately prepared rice or pasta.
Creamy and Stuffed Salmon Recipes
Choose a skillet cream sauce, a filled fillet or a salmon-and-orzo dinner. The orzo is boiled separately, and the stuffed fish needs both its filling and thickest areas checked.
1. Creamy Tuscan Garlic Salmon
Fillets are cooked and lifted out before a sauce of cream, broth, Parmesan, spinach and sun-dried tomatoes is made. A cornstarch slurry thickens it. The cooked fish returns briefly, with sides chosen separately.
2. Spinach Stuffed Salmon
Thick skinless salmon portions are pocketed and filled with drained spinach, cream cheese and Parmesan. The fish bakes covered before finishing uncovered. Choose the specified thick cut rather than trying to fill a thin fillet.
3. Salmon with Lemon Orzo and Spinach
Orzo is boiled while salmon cooks in a skillet, then spinach, lemon and the pasta are combined. The fillets sit over the finished orzo with Parmesan. This choice includes the pasta accompaniment within the recipe.
Oven and Broiler Salmon Recipes
These salmon recipes use pesto, a Parmesan topping, garlic mayonnaise, a spicy coating or a balsamic glaze. The broiled option requires a broiler-rated metal tray and close attention as it browns.
4. Baked Pesto Salmon with Tomatoes
Cherry tomatoes roast first before pesto-coated salmon portions join the tray. The measured pesto is kept separate from the jar during preparation. Choose this for fish with roasted tomatoes, adding another side if desired.
5. Parmesan Garlic Herb Salmon
Butter, oil, lemon, garlic and Parmesan coat an even piece of salmon or similar portions on an open foil liner. The topping bakes without a required broiler finish. Parsley is added after cooking.
6. Garlic Mayo Dill Salmon
A thin mayonnaise, crushed garlic and chopped dill coating covers a skin-on fillet before baking. The recipe divides the larger fish into substantial portions. Shield the topping if it browns before the thickest section finishes.
7. Broiled Sweet Chili-Style Salmon
Mayonnaise, sriracha, honey, vinegar, soy and sesame oil form a thin coating before broiling. The method watches browning continuously and allows an oven finish if needed. Green onion tops the cooked portions.
8. Balsamic Glazed Salmon
Part of the balsamic, brown-sugar and Dijon mixture marinates the fish, while an untouched portion is simmered separately for serving. The fish-contact marinade is discarded. Include the marinating period and saucepan glaze stage.
Air Fryer Salmon and a Rice Bowl
Choose teriyaki glaze, a dry sweet-spice coating or cubed salmon over rice. These salmon recipes require different sauce and accompaniment stages, with uncrowded cooking in the basket.
9. Teriyaki Glazed Air Fryer Salmon
A soy, brown-sugar, garlic and ginger sauce is cooked and thickened first. Half is kept clean for serving before the other portion coats the fish. The reserved sauce is warmed separately over the cooked fillets.
10. Brown Sugar Spice Air Fryer Salmon
A small amount of oil holds brown sugar, paprika, garlic and herbs on evenly sized portions. The fish air-fries in a single layer. This is the simpler seasoned fillet option, with side dishes prepared separately.
11. Air Fryer Salmon Rice Bowl
Even salmon cubes cook in the air fryer while rice, edamame and fresh toppings are prepared separately. Avocado, carrot and cucumber fill out the bowls, with a mayonnaise-chili sauce. It makes a smaller two-bowl meal.
Grilled Salmon and Patties
Finish with grilled fillets, fresh-salmon burgers or pan-cooked croquettes made from canned salmon. Read the starting fish ingredient carefully; the canned-salmon mixture also contains an egg and is cooked after shaping.
12. Grilled Honey Lime Salmon
Salmon briefly marinates in a honey-butter-lime mixture after a clean serving portion is reserved. The fish is drained before grilling, and only the clean sauce accompanies it afterward. Allow for the refrigerator marinade stage.
13. Grilled Salmon with Avocado Salsa
Seasoned fillets grill while avocado, tomato, cooked corn, lime and cilantro form a separate cold salsa. This is a generous fish portion with fresh topping. Any rice, bread or other side is prepared separately.
14. Fresh Salmon Burgers
Raw salmon is partly chopped and partly pulsed to bind with breadcrumbs and herbs. Shaped patties chill before grilling. Buns, lettuce, tomato and a measured tartar sauce topping complete the sandwiches.
15. Salmon Croquettes with Peppers
Drained canned salmon is mixed with peppers, panko, flour, egg and seasonings, then shaped and chilled. The patties cook in two skillet loads. Choose this when using canned cooked salmon rather than raw fillets.
Before You Choose Your Recipe
Choose salmon recipes by the cut of fish, cooking method and included accompaniments. Match the specified portion size, keep serving sauces separate from raw-contact mixtures, and follow the full recipe’s finishing checks. The links provide each complete ingredient list and method.
