Chile-Garlic Salmon With Mango and Cucumber Salad
Published July 10, 2025

- Total Time
- 30 minutes
- Prep Time
- 10 minutes
- Cook Time
- 20 minutes
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Ingredients
- ½cup soy sauce
- ¼cup maple syrup
- 4teaspoons chile-garlic sauce (preferably Huy Fong)
- 2teaspoons toasted sesame oil
- 7medium garlic cloves, finely grated
- Ground black pepper, to taste
- 4(5- to 6-ounce) skin-on salmon fillets
- Cooked white rice (optional), for serving
- 1large ripe mango, cubed
- 1medium cucumber, quartered lengthwise then thinly sliced
- ½lime, juiced
- ½teaspoon fine sea salt
- Ground black pepper, to taste
- 1medium avocado, cubed
For the Salmon
For the Mango Salad
Preparation
- Step 1
Heat the oven to 400 degrees. While the oven heats, make the salmon marinade by combining the soy sauce, maple syrup, chile-garlic sauce, sesame oil, garlic and black pepper in a large bowl.
- Step 2
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Dip the salmon fillets in the marinade, making sure to coat all sides. Once the oven is hot, place salmon skin-side down on the baking sheet and roast for 15 minutes, until the fish is tender and flakes easily with a fork. Set aside leftover marinade.
- Step 3
While the salmon roasts, combine all ingredients for the mango salad except the avocado.
- Step 4
In a small saucepan, add the leftover marinade and reduce it over medium heat, stirring occasionally, about 4 minutes, until it thickens to a syrup.
- Step 5
Once the salmon is ready, spoon the thickened sauce over the salmon. Add the avocado to the mango salad and gently mix together.
- Step 6
Serve the salmon and mango salad with white rice, if desired.
Private Notes
Comments
This was amazing. I didn’t have chili garlic, so I used chili crisp and grated a few extra cloves of garlic and it worked so well. I loved the little kick and the sweetness from the maple. The salad was so refreshing (I made extra to have the next day). This meal comes together so fast!
Is there a good substitute for the chile-garlic sauce? Made from things one usually has on hand?
I used Thai red curry paste and it worked well.
Made this tonight and it was so delicious and so easy! I didn’t have garlic so substituted garlic powder. Will definitely be having this again.
Made suggested marinade amount for 1 lb. salmon and 1/2 amount would have been fine due to saltiness of the reduced sauce. Added some scallion and fresno chile to the salad because my mango wasn't really ripe enough for great flavor. Overall, very delicious.
Made this tonight with Costco steelhead trout (since I don’t eat salmon except smoked), thought it was a quick/easy/flavorful way to get dinner on the table. We loved the salad, added a bit of mint as someone else suggested. Wouldn’t change a thing!