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Crispy Skin Salmon with Sweet Chili Sauce

Make crispy skin salmon even better with this simple sweet chili pan sauce.
Author: Brent Griffiths

Ingredients

  • 3 or 4 salmon fillets 2 to 3 oz each

Sauce

  • 1/4 cup of rice vinegar
  • 1 tsp of ground dried chilis
  • 4 tablespoons of granulated sugar

Instructions

  • Make sauce by combining the sauce ingredients and setting aside.
  • Season both side of your salmon filets with a little salt and pepper.
  • Heat two tablespoons of oil (I use avocado, but coconut is good too) in a cast iron or stainless steel frying pan. When the oil is hot and shimmering add your salmon filets to the pan skin side down.
  • Cook for about 5 minutes until the skin is crisp and you can see that the salmon is mostly cooked through.
  • Flip the salmon and fry skin side up and cook for another minute or two.
  • Add your sauce directly to the pan and cook it down until it becomes a syrup, swirling the pan occasionally.
  • Remove you salmon from the pan and place on some rice or a bed or arugula, skin side up. If you place it skin side up the skin will lose it crispness.
  • Spoon some sauce onto the rice or arugula and down the side of the salmon or sit the salmon in a small pool of the sauce. Don't spoon the sauce directly onto the skin as... yep you guessed it, you'll lose the crispness.