12 Minute Baked Salmon Fajita Unfold

May 21, 2026

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Here’s a large Salmon Fajita unfold that appears such as you labored method more durable than you truly did. 😎 Fajita seasoned salmon, greens and warmed tortillas all occur within the oven on the identical time in 12 minutes flat. Dinner! Executed!

12 Minute Baked Salmon Fajita Unfold

This can be a fast Mexican dinner impressed by the Baked Cajun Salmon Bites I shared final yr that I’ve seen fairly just a few of you change into fairly keen on. 🙂 And what’s to not love? Fast to cook dinner (12 minutes!). Wonderful seasoning-to-flesh ratio (chopping into cubes is vital). No range splatter. And no want to show a gazillion cubes of salmon halfway by means of cooking due to my mum’s nifty wrinkled foil fish-baking trick that retains the underside from going soggy whereas serving to the salmon caramelise fantastically!

In the present day, I’m taking that very same salmon baking methodology, switching the seasoning to a Fajita combine, including a pile of vibrant fajita greens, then popping them each within the oven on the identical time. I throw foil packets with tortillas in on the identical time to heat by means of too.

The oven is full which suggests a giant unfold comes out! How nice is it that??!

Substances in Salmon Fajita Unfold

Right here’s what it’s essential make this Salmon Fajita unfold.

1. For the fajita seasoned salmon

I make this with salmon (the pure oiliness makes it so nice for baking) however you need to use any just about any agency white fish fillets not less than 2cm/0.8″ thick. Flathead, barramundi, snapper, cod, mahi mahi, tilapia, and halibut come to thoughts. Or trout!

Salmon – I desire utilizing skinless salmon fillets right here, however in the event you like salmon pores and skin even when it’s not cooked crispy or charred, go forward and use pores and skin on!
Fajita seasoning – Pantry spices! Smoked paprika, garlic, onion, cumin and dried oregano. I like utilizing smoked paprika for the stunning smokey flavour, however be at liberty to substitute with common paprika.
1 teaspoon brown sugar – As talked about above, only a smidge of sugar helps to get some beautiful tasty caramelisation on the floor of the salmon. It doesn’t make this salmon candy although! By no means. 🙂
Cayenne pepper for a touch of spiciness. Fully optionally available.

2. fajita greens and tortillas

The tortillas get wrapped in foil and warmed within the oven whereas the greens and salmon are cooking. I simply pop them on the ground of the oven as a result of there’s no house on the cabinets!

Capsicum (bell peppers) – Go for pink, inexperienced and yellow for a kaleidoscope of fajita colors! In any other case, keep on with pink and/or yellow, I feel all-green can be a bit of too bitter (inexperienced capsicums are merely unripe capsicums, in spite of everything).
Crimson onion – A fajita staple that softens and sweetens because it cooks, and provides one other pop of color into the fajita greens.
Tortillas – Corn or flour tortillas will work right here. Use 3 or 4 per serving, relying on dimension.
Avocado – Creamy avocado is a basic fajita add-in that provides a beautiful cooling distinction to the boldly flavoured salmon.

3. Sauce choices

Simply use bitter cream for a no-effort possibility that’s common with fajitas – it’s what I take advantage of for my rooster and steak fajitas). Although in the event you can, I extremely suggest glowing new Jalapeno Taco Sauce (zingy! tangy! quick!) or my most used sauce for tacos! That is what’s pictured all through this publish and within the video.

Then there’s all the time this 2 ingredient Pink Taco Sauce. I take advantage of this pink sauce a lot, together with in my marinated Fish Tacos, as a result of it’s every part I need in a taco sauce – creamy, cooling, with a little bit of zippiness – and it takes 90 seconds to make. 😊

How one can make 12 Minute Salmon Fajitas

As talked about earlier, a neat trick in at the moment’s recipe is to line the salmon roasting tray with wrinkled foil. Not the primary time I’ve shared it and received’t be the final!

Wrinkled foil – Flippantly scrunch the foil in your fingers, then unfold it with out smoothing out the wrinkles and use it to cowl the tray. You need a lot of little crinkles, ridges and bumps all around the floor, these act like tiny “prongs” that preserve the salmon barely elevated off the tray. This stops the underside from going soggy (which makes the seasoning sweat off) and likewise helps prevents the salmon from sticking. A nifty little Japanese fish cooking trick I picked up from my mom!

Fold the foil over the sting of a second tray to carry it in place, then repeat with one other sheet if wanted till the entire tray is roofed in wrinkly crinkly foil.
Greens first – Toss the capsicum and onion with garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper on a big tray. Unfold them out and put aside.

Minimize the salmon into chew dimension items – 2.5cm / 1″ is an effective dimension that may cook dinner by means of simply completely inside by the point it’s been within the oven lengthy sufficient to caramelise the floor barely. Slicing salmon into cubes additionally means the next ratio of tasty seasoned floor space to flesh.
Fajita seasoning – Combine the Fajita seasoning substances in a bowl. It must be like a moist paste.

Coat salmon – Add the salmon into the bowl and toss to coat within the seasoning.
Unfold the salmon throughout the tray. The more room between each bit, the higher they may color!

Bake 12 minutes – Place the salmon (prime shelf), greens (2nd shelf) and foil wrapped tortillas (ground of oven) in a scorching 240°C/465°F (220°C fan-forced) oven and bake for 12 minutes, or till the salmon items are frivolously caramelised on the skin and simply flake.
Fajita unfold – Lay out the salmon, greens and warmed tortillas out with slices of avocado on the facet, some roughly chopped coriander/cilantro leaves and a fast fish taco sauce you made whereas the salmon was within the oven (Jalapeño Taco Sauce – pictured, my most-used 2 ingredient Pink Taco Sauce or plain bitter cream). Then let everyone dive in and make their very own fajitas!

I feel you’ll be pleasantly shocked with the daring flavour you get on the salmon with such a brief bake time. Baked fish can generally cop a nasty rap for tasting a bit bland since you miss out on golden crust and caramelisation from pan frying. And I get it. If I bake, it’s both crumbed or sauced or smothered or closely seasoned. In the present day’s salmon is heavy handed with the Fajita spice combine and makes use of fierce oven warmth to get lovey color and flavour. It actually works, and regardless that I’ve talked up the handiness of baking a whole dinner within the oven, the salmon actually is the star of at the moment’s recipe. 🙂

Like to know what you assume in the event you get an opportunity to do that! – Nagi x

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12 Minute Baked Salmon Fajita Unfold

12 Minute Baked Salmon Fajita Unfold