Cajun Baked Salmon Bites – RecipeTin Eats

November 7, 2025

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Cajun Baked Salmon Bites is only a actually tasty, no-fuss option to prepare dinner salmon, quick (12 minutes!). Reduce into cubes so the Cajun flavour hits each chew, then bake in a scorching oven so it browns with out overcooking the within. No range splatter, yay!

Cajun Baked Salmon Bites – RecipeTin Eats

“What’s so good about this salmon?”

I simply completed “promoting” this to my brother (sure, the one which famously as soon as instructed me “there’s nothing about this recipe I like” 😆) when he got here in simply as I used to be capturing the pictures. He requested (bluntly) – “What’s so good about this salmon?”. Right here’s what I instructed him!

Slicing salmon into cubes means a better ratio of tasty seasoned floor space to flesh. You received’t even want a sauce to take pleasure in these bites!
It’s baked not pan fried. Who desires to show a gazillion cubes of salmon 6 instances??
It takes 12 minutes to bake. It will get color on it because of a scorching oven and a smidge of sugar within the seasoning, however the inside doesn’t get overcooked. No one desires dry overcooked salmon round right here!
I’m utilizing mum’s notorious crumpled foil fish baking method. So as a substitute of utilizing a rack (such a ache to scrub), you simply line a tray with crinkled foil and it acts like a gazillion teeny tiny prongs that hold the salmon from sitting flat on the tray. This manner, the underside even will get a little bit of color on it reasonably than getting all sweaty and moist, so there’s no want to show the salmon.
Additionally, the crumpled foil stops the fish from sticking!
It’s Cajun, dude. Something you Cajun is tasty. You already know it’s true. 😂

That’s a reasonably correct illustration of how our dialog went down. I satisfied him. Have I satisfied you?? 😀

Elements in Cajun Baked Salmon Bites

Right here’s what it’s worthwhile to make this – salmon fillets and a handful of pantry spices!

Salmon – Skinless fillets is finest right here. Pores and skin on will work too however then it’s worthwhile to fiddle with each bit to rearrange them skin-side down.
Spices – Simply common pantry spices!
– garlic and onion powder: substitute with extra of both. Don’t substitute the garlic powder with recent garlic, it’ll burn!
– paprika: common/candy – although smoked is nice too
– dried thyme: substitute with oregano or parsley
– cayenne pepper: optionally available, for a additional hit of heat warmth, when you like!
Brown sugar – Just a bit bit not solely provides important flavour (it truly is so good with the cajun spice combine!), it additionally helps the salmon bites get a little bit of caramelisation on the floor even with a really brief bake time so the within doesn’t overcook. In case you substitute with honey or maple syrup, it doesn’t color as nicely (I attempted).
Salt and pepper – I exploit cooking salt / kosher salt. In case you solely have desk salt (very superb), then cut back the quantity by 50%, and when you’ve got salt flakes, improve by 50%.
Olive oil – Or any impartial flavoured oil appropriate for cooking.

Learn how to make Cajun Baked Salmon Bites

Right here’s tips on how to make them. Preheat your oven nicely – we want a scorching oven to get color on the salmon in 12 minutes flat!

Reduce the salmon into chew dimension items – 2.5cm / 1″ is an effective dimension that can prepare dinner via simply completely inside by the point it’s been within the oven lengthy sufficient to caramelise the floor barely.
Combine the Cajun Marinade components in a bowl then add the salmon and toss to coat. There must be simply sufficient to coat every bit properly with out extra pooling within the backside of the bowl.

Wrinkle foil up by evenly scrunching it together with your palms then unfold it with out flattening the wrinkles and canopy the tray. We would like plenty of little crinkly wrinkly little ridges, bumps and lumps all around the foil that can act as microscopic little “prongs” that hold the salmon elevated off the tray – that is what stops the underside from getting soggy which makes the Cajun spice sweat off. It additionally prevents the salmon from sticking to the tray. Nifty little Japanese fish cooking method I picked up from my mom!

Fold the foil over the sting of the tray to carry it in place and repeat with one other sheet of foil (if wanted) to cowl the entire tray with the wrinkly crinkly foil.
Unfold the salmon throughout the tray. The extra space between each bit, the higher they’ll color!

Bake for 12 minutes in a scorching preheated oven – 240°C/460°F (220°C fan-forced). Arduous and quick, to get color on the salmon with out overcooking the within!
Prepared to eat! Have a look at the beautiful caramelisation on the floor – because of the smidge of brown sugar and the new oven!

Sauce and serving choices

I exploit sufficient seasoning for these salmon bites as a way to serve them and not using a sauce, plus bear in mind we’re preserving them good and succulent inside – no dry overcooked salmon for dinner tonight!!!

Nevertheless, sauce is all the time inspired and it so occurred that I had a few leftovers in my fridge from latest recipes – the Gyros Sauce from final weeks’ Kalimera Hen Gyros, and the pantry-spices model of Peri-naise from the latest (very talked-about!) One Pot Nando’s Hen and Rice. Each are pink and each tasted fabulous with the Cajun flavours on this salmon, although for a extremely fast choice you can simply combine mayonnaise with sriracha and/or ketchup (goal for a pink color).

As for tips on how to serve them – make rice bowls, like pictured on this publish and within the video, or stuff into tortillas to make salmon tacos (YES!). Add to salads to make them meal-worthy, make dinner plates with a Backyard Salad and Lemon Potato Salad on the aspect, or eat them straight off the tray. Nevertheless you serve these, you possibly can’t go flawed! – Nagi x

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