Soy Brown Sugar Marinated Salmon with Fresh Pineapple Salsa

I recently found this great recipe for Soy Orange Grilled Salmon with Fresh Pineapple Salsa.  As usual I forgot to buy a couple ingredients from the store and the price of Aji Mirin was too much for my broke pockets, so I had to improvise.  I’ll definitely try the original recipe at a later date, but I wanted to share the recipe I made because the flavors were good and I LOVED the pineapple salsa. This was my first time making pineapple salsa, but definitely won’t be the last.

I had to lure you with a great picture from the original recipe from Simply Good.

Ingredients

1 ½ lb salmon fillets

Salt to taste

1/3 cup soy sauce

1/3 cup brown sugar

1/3 water

1/4 cup vegetable oil

Lemon pepper to taste

For the salsa

1 cup chopped fresh pineapple

1/2 cup chopped red pepper

2 jalapeños chopped

3 green onions

Cilantro

1 ½ limes juiced

(I also added green pepper, but that’s optional)

I suck at presentation but here is my picture. Next time I need
 to add more color to my plate because the rice and cabbage
just washed each other out.

Season salmon with salt and lemon pepper.

In a small bowl, stir together soy sauce, brown sugar, water and vegetable oil until sugar is dissolved. Place fish in a large resealable plastic bag with the soy sauce mixture, seal and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.

For the salsa, stir all ingredients together in a mixing bowl.  Cover and refrigerate until ready to use.

Once the fish has marinated, preheat the oven to 400 degrees.  Place the salmon and 1/3 of the marinade into a glass dish. Bake for 15-20 minutes. (Cooking time may vary depending on the thickness of your salmon, so you can tell the fish is done when it is easily flaked with a fork.) Once the salmon is done cooking, top with salsa and enjoy.

I made cilantro lime rice and stir fried cabbage with my salmon, but you can enjoy yours with your favorite sides.