Teriyaki Salmon Stir Fry

This Teriyaki Salmon Stir Fry is my favorite light and healthy stir fry dish to make. It's made with an easy homemade teriyaki sauce and marinated salmon. All you need is a few simple ingredients and your favorite stir fry vegetables. Serve with white rice, coconut rice, or Perfect Instant Pot Sushi Rice!

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• 📋 About the Recipe
• 🛒 Ingredients
• 📓 Instructions
• ⁉️ Substitutions and Alterations
• ❄️ How to Store
• 🔍 FAQs
• 💭 One More Tip
• 🍴 Related Recipes
• Teriyaki Salmon Stir Fry
• Reviews

📋 About the Recipe

• Healthy: Making stir fry with a lighter protein like salmon is a great, healthier way to enjoy this take out inspired dish. Try my Air Fryer General Tso's Chicken and Air Fryer Orange Chicken for additional healthier takes on your favorite takeout recipes.
• 1 hour: Have this stir fry dinner recipe ready in just 1 hour, including the marinating time! Quick and easy enough for weeknights, just like this salmon with mango salsa.
• Easy homemade teriyaki sauce: Although there are many store-bought teriyaki sauces available, making your own at home is incredibly easy and effortless to customize. Follow my simple steps to making your own from scratch!

🛒 Ingredients

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A few notes about the ingredients:

1. salmon - This stir fry is made with skinless salmon filets. Wild caught Pacific salmon fillets are preferred over Atlantic salmon as Atlantic salmon is typically farmed. However, use what is easiest for you and available in your grocery store.
2. water chestnuts - A Chinese aquatic vegetable that is very mild in flavor but provides a nice, soft crunch in any stir fry.
3. bok choy - Considered the Chinese white cabbage, this vegetable looks similar to a mix between cabbage, celery, and a leafy green. It cooks quickly and compliments the salmon and teriyaki marinade perfectly.
4. brown sugar - An essential ingredient in the homemade teriyaki sauce. I recommend using light brown sugar as dark brown sugar contains significantly more molasses and is a more prominent flavor.
5. pineapple juice - Adds the perfect flavor to the teriyaki sauce without the need for additional refined sugar. Feel free to use jarred or canned pineapple juice. Use any leftover pineapple juice in my sweet and sour chicken meatballs.

📓 Instructions

1. Cube the salmon: Cut the skinless salmon into 2-inch cubes and place into a baking dish or bowl.
2. Prepare the teriyaki sauce: Whisk together the soy sauce, pineapple juice, rice vinegar, and brown sugar.
3. Marinate the salmon: Pour the teriyaki sauce over the cubed salmon and marinate for 30 minutes to an hour in the refrigerator.

4. Heat a large skillet and olive oil over medium heat.
5. Pan fry the salmon: Transfer the salmon from the baking dish to the hot skillet using tongs and brown the salmon on both sides, about 5-7 minutes total. When flipping the salmon, carefully use tongs to prevent the salmon from flaking apart. Reserve the leftover marinade in the baking dish to make the sauce.
6. Cook onions and bell peppers: Remove the salmon from the skillet and set aside. Add the onions and bell peppers and sauté them for about 2 minutes. You want them to keep their form and not get too soft.

7. Add vegetables: Add the broccoli, bok choy, sugar snap peas, and water chestnuts and stir to combine. Saute for 3-5 minutes or until the vegetables are bright green and slightly softened. Again, you don't want to over cook these here - they should still have good texture and a slight crunch.
8. Prepare a cornstarch slurry: In a small bowl, whisk together the cornstarch and water for the teriyaki sauce.

9. Saute the garlic and ginger: Remove the vegetables from the skillet and set aside, then saute the garlic and ginger in 2 teaspoons of toasted sesame oil for 30 seconds, stirring constantly to prevent burning.
10. Add in the teriyaki: Carefully pour the teriyaki sauce into the skillet with the garlic and ginger, then whisk in the cornstarch slurry until the sauce thickens, about 2-4 minutes.

11. Add the stir fry ingredients back in: Once the sauce is thickened, add the vegetables back into the skillet and stir to coat in the sauce. Finally, top the vegetables with the pan-fried salmon and very gently stir to prevent mashing the salmon.
12. Serve: Serve over rice and garnish with sesame seeds and green onion.

⁉️ Substitutions and Alterations

• Use any vegetables you have: Although I find the combination of broccoli, sugar snap peas, water chestnuts and bok choy to be the best vegetables to pair with this Asian style salmon recipe, you can use what you have on hand. Keep the measurements and cuts the same for best results.
• Avoid using frozen vegetables: Frozen vegetables are going to release a significant amount more water than fresh vegetables and will water down the teriyaki marinade.
• Out of salmon? Substitute with diced chicken breasts, steak, or shrimp.
• Only have full sodium soy sauce? Try ¼ cup soy sauce with ¼ cup water.

❄️ How to Store

To store: Salmon stir fry is really best enjoyed fresh, but it can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.

To freeze: Freezing this recipe is not recommended. This would change the texture of the salmon.

To reheat: When reheating salmon it is important not to reheat it too quickly as this will dry out the fish. I recommend reheating this stir fry on the stovetop at a low heat until warmed through. Microwaving fish is not a preferred method.

🔍 FAQs

💭 One More Tip

Enjoy immediately! Although there are many recipes on my site that you can cook for meal prep and enjoy a few days later, I always recommend enjoying salmon when fresh for the best flaky texture and flavor.

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