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Easy, delicious, super flavorful Asian Salmon and Noodles make an excellent weeknight dinner choice. Easy to make and they will bring a variety to your weekly rotation of recipes. Honey-soy salmon broiled to perfection and then tossed with flavorful Asian noodles with mushrooms and snow peas. Both salmon and noodles are smothered in Sriracha flavored, honey-sesame sauce.
This week turned out to be quite busy again, and it's during the weeks like this one that I love simple weeknight dinners, such as this Asian salmon and noodles. You might have noticed that this pasta dish is strikingly similar to my recent recipe for spicy Asian noodles with mushrooms and snow peas, including the trivia that I manually counted 60 snow peas. In fact, the only difference between these two recipes is the presence of salmon in our today's dish.
The salmon and noodles cooked Asian style that you see on the photos are so flavorful, that this dish quickly became a favorite in and outside of our home! And, it takes such a short time to make this recipe that I've been feeding this dish to my family LOTS of times. I am surprised they are still not tired of it. So, I know your family will love this recipe if you like good homemade Asian food! And, like it should be on a busy weeknight, the recipe is quick and easy!
In this recipe, first prepare the noodles and then cook the salmon. This way your salmon will not have to sit and wait until you prepare noodles and it will not be overcooked.
How to cook Asian noodles
- I use fettuccine noodles for this recipe. They are wide and I like to use wide noodles for Asian recipes.
- First, saute chopped green onions and sesame seeds in olive oil in a large frying pan, then add sliced mushrooms and cook them for a couple of minutes.
- Next, add soy sauce, honey, chicken stock, sesame oil, Sriracha sauce - and mix everything together to combine.
- Separately, boil snow peas for about 5 minutes until tender but still crunchy.
- Cook fettuccine pasta in the pot of boiling water. Drain.
- Finally, combine cooked snow peas and cooked and drained fettuccine noodles together with the mushrooms and the sauce in a large frying pan.
How to make Asian salmon
- Salmon is seared in a skillet on stove top, and broiled with a little bit of honey and soy sauce just for the right amount of time.
- Then the salmon is left to sit on the counter, covered, to continue cooking.
- As a result, the salmon is packed with flavor, soft and juicy. I don't tolerate overcooked salmon (which can be dry and flavorless), and in this recipe your salmon will be perfect!
Asian salmon and noodles
Ingredients
Ingredients for Asian noodles:
- 1 tablespoons olive oil
- 5 green onions chopped
- 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
- 10 button mushrooms , sliced, or 1 Portobello mushroom, sliced
- ¼ cup soy sauce
- ¼ cup honey
- ¼ cup chicken stock
- 2 tablespoons sesame oil
- 1 teaspoon Sriracha sauce , substitute with any other hot sauce if you don't have Sriracha
- 2 cups snow peas ends trimmed (about 60 snow peas)
- ½ lb pasta preferably Fettuccine (half a pound)
Ingredients for Asian salmon:
- 2 tablespoons cooking oil
- 1 pound salmon
- salt & pepper
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
Instructions
Asian Noodles:
- Heat cooking oil in a large frying pan on medium heat. Add chopped green onions and sesame seeds and saute for 2-3 minutes. Add sliced mushrooms and cook for another 2 minutes on medium heat. Remove the pan from the heat, and add soy sauce, honey, chicken stock, sesame oil, Sriracha - mix everything well to combine.
- In a separate pan, boil snow peas 3-5 minutes until tender but still crunchy. Drain.
- In another large pan, bring water to boil and cook pasta for 10-12 minutes or longer (according to pasta instructions) al dente. Drain.
- Add drained snow peas and pasta to the vegetables and sauce in the large frying pan with vegetables from step 1. Mix everything well and heat everything through on medium-low heat.
Asian salmon:
- Preheat broiler. Heat large skillet on high heat. Season salmon on non-skin side with salt & pepper, generously. Add oil to the hot skillet: the oil should sizzle. Add salmon to the skillet non-skin side down (skin side up) and sear for 4 minutes, moving the fish around the skillet to make sure oil coats the surface of the fish and that the fish is not sticking to the pan while searing.
- After these 4 minutes, turn the fish over to the skin side and sear for another 3 minutes on high heat. After searing on the skin side, you can actually remove salmon skin easily at this point and discard, if you don't like to eat it.
- Mix honey and soy sauce together, heating it a little bit in microwave or on stove top to soften the honey. Brush top of salmon with the honey-soy sauce. Place salmon under the broiler for 3 minutes, watching carefully not to burn salmon. Brush with more sauce midway through broiling, if desired. Broil for a total of 3 minutes until the top of salmon becomes a little charred.
- At this point, salmon is ready to be served. Or, you can keep salmon covered until you're ready to serve. If your salmon is a little bit undercooked in the middle, then keeping it covered for several minutes before serving will also allow the salmon to continue cooking and it will be perfectly done and not dry when you're ready to serve!
Nutrition
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Seared salmon? Mushrooms? Sriracha?? Ummmm, can it be dinner time now? This looks awesome Julia!
I change out ingredients in recipes all the time! If I like something, just a little change can make it seem new again. And the salmon is a pretty big change. Really nice - thanks for this.
Ooooh I love everything about this. We love salmon and new ways to prepare it!!! PINNED.
Easy and delicious! I've been craving salmon lately, so I think we'll be making this as soon as possible! Thank you so much for sharing!
Our local salmon season begins next month and I can't wait! What an enticing recipe to begin the season!
Yum! I love salmon and cook it all the time but I've never served it over noodles. Looks divine!
The fish looks so inviting couldn't resist myself from checking out the recipe. Never had the recipe of salmon which they serve with noodles in Asian shop. Gonna try this one! between how could you count those peas!!!
I am obsessed with salmon. I have never tried cooking it like that but I will have to. I love the deep caramelization on it.
Gosh! This looks so appetizing, Julia!!! And I am not a fan of salmon.
You did a great jog cooking the salmon. It is GORGEOUS.
My in-laws have a place in Canada where the go to deep sea fish. Therefore, at the end of every summer, they stock my freezer with salmon and halibut. I just threw some fillets in the fridge to try this. Don't know if I will get to the noodles. But the salmon is a GO! Thanks!
We've been trying to eat more fish in my house and this is the perfect dish! Salmon is my favorite fish and the Asian flavors work so nicely here. Reminds me of an Asian salmon salad I get at my favorite restaurant. Can't wait to try this!
I love fresh salmon! Whenever Grey and I go to the coast we make it a point to eat nothing but seafood (because it is so fresh) plus we bring some home! This recipe looks delicious and fancy enough for a dinner party...oh wait...no...then I'd have to share. Haha. Thanks for posting this. Cheers!
I do love salmon in many different ways and I agree that it lends itself to quick cooking and Asian flavours. Your dish looks delicious and a bonus that it's quick. I imagine it would also taste nice with some chicken or even fried tofu, given the same treatment!
Since visiting Sweden so much in the last three years, I have become even more fond of cured salmon dishes such as Gravad lax and salmon poached and served with a dill and mustard sauce (Hovmästarsås), new potatoes and a simple green vegetable accompaniment. It is surprisingly tasty and accounts for the lithe, healthy nature of the Swedes!
All this talk of salmon has made me hanker after some... I'll have to get some out of the freezer and see what I can rustle up!
Have a lovely (and less busy!) week!
You call this a simple meal? If I were that busy, some crackers and fruit might just do the trick for me.
The pasta looks droolworthy!
We're having salmon tonight and we were supposed to finish off my rice from last night ..but I may just make your noodles:)
You eat VERY well ..Many busy busy people don't take the time..:)