Name: Keto Asian Salmon Recipe (4 Ingredients)
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 3 lbs salmon filets; 1 tablespoon Swerve brown sugar sweetener; 2 tablespoons chili garlic sauce; 3 tablespoons soy sauce

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Need a quick and easy dinner? This keto Asian salmon recipe is awesome and only takes 4 ingredients and 15 minutes to make. I like it because it’s low carb (4.3g net carbohydrates) and my family loves the spicy sweet flavors of the sugar free glaze. This is a healthy low carb salmon dinner you will want to add to your weekly meal plan!

You might also like this 7 low carb salmon dishes post!

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To me there is nothing better than a perfectly cooked piece of salmon. And now that my son loves salmon, I try to cook it more often.

Today I made some keto Asian salmon with a simple glaze using chili garlic sauce. It was spicy, salty and sweet and perfectly complemented the fatty salmon.

My family really liked it which was great but the best thing was this salmon recipe only took 15 minutes to make and had just 4.3g net carbsohydrates. Salmon is great on a low carb diet.

aerial view of large and small white plates with Asian glazed salmon with green beans

Other delicious low carb
salmon recipes to try.

I have a lot of salmon recipes on my site. Good salmon is usually not very easy to find but now that Aldi has fresh fish I can get it whenever I want.

Recently I’ve made a lime margarita grilled salmon which was great for summer and my husband and son love brined smoked salmon all year long. They eat the leftovers on bagels in the morning. Both are delicious recipes to try.

closeup of a plate of Asian glazed keto salmon filets

Ingredients I used for the Asian salmon glaze.

Below are the ingredients that I used to make the sugar free Asian salmon glaze. I just mixed soy sauce, chili garlic sauce and Swerve brown sugar sweetener together and brushed it on the salmon before pan frying.

While I feel soy sauce is keto-friendly if you want to use an alternative you can liquid aminos. For more alternatives and info check out this article.

keto Asian glaze ingredients - soy sauce, chili garlic sauce and Swerve brown sweetener

You might want to double the batch of sauce because it’s also great as a dipping sauce. And I mention two other sauces below that would go great too.

While I used Swerve sweetener, you can just use regular brown sugar if you are not on a low carb diet.

TIP: To make your own brown sugar substitute, mix 1 tablespoon of molasses with 1 cup of your favorite sweetener.

Chili garlic sauce is a new condiment for me and I just love it. It gives my stir fries so much flavor and you can find it in most grocery stores these days.

How to make keto Asian salmon.

First mix the chili garlic sauce, Swerve brown sweetener and soy sauce together in a bowl.
Spray a nonstick skillet with cooking spray and heat to medium high heat for a minute or so.
Next brush the salmon filets with the sauce then place them fish skin side up in the pan and turn the heat down to a medium heat. Cook for 3-4 minutes until the filets are cooked about ⅓ of the way up from the bottom.
Flip the salmon over and cook for another 3-5 minutes until they are cooked another ⅓ way up from the bottom. Cook times will be dependent on how thick the filets are.
Take the salmon out of pan and let rest before serving.(Please scroll down to view and print the recipe card.)

salmon with cooked low carb salmon filets

What low carb side dishes go with this main dish?

Since this salmon only takes such little time to make you might want a low carb side dish that takes little time too. Cauliflower rice is my go to with Asian recipes.

Try this keto fried cauliflower rice, or this asiago cauliflower rice. Also these Asian green beans or bacon & green beans. Or pick from all of my low carb side dishes to add to this meal.

white plate with a piece of salmon and a platter of more salmon filets in the background

Try these other keto sauces for salmon too.

Because this is an Asian salmon recipe, you might also like these Asian keto sauces to dip it in. Try this creamy yummy yum sauce or this ginger sauce with fresh ginger, rice vinegar, sesame oil, etc.

This hibachi appetizer post will tell you how to make both sauces. Or try my friend Jen’s keto teriyaki sauce.

So that is all there is to it my friends. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did. Maybe I’ll try this in the air fryer next time so look out for that post!

The nutrition is for 1 large piece of salmon:
360 cals / 10g fat / 4.3g carbs / 59g protein = 4.3g net carbs