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crispy air fryer bang bang salmon bites drizzled with sauce served with ice on a blue and white floral plate and two smaller blue and white plates with Japanese cabbage salad and pickled pepper salad

Bang Bang Salmon Bites

Rebecca Lindamood
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Spicy, sweet, flavour-explosion Bang Bang Salmon Bites are cooked to crisp-edged, tender perfection in the air fryer. You'll make this again and again!

Equipment

  • air fryer

Ingredients
  

For the Bang Bang Sauce

  • 1 cup mayonnaise
  • 1/2 cup Thai sweet chili sauce like Mae Ploy or Maggi
  • 1.5 tablespoons honey
  • 1.5 tablespoons Sriracha or more to taste
  • 2 teaspoons rice vinegar

For the Salmon Bites

  • 2 lbs boneless, skinless salmon filets
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 2 teaspoons granulated garlic
  • 2 teaspoons smoked paprika
  • 1.5 teaspoons kosher salt I use Diamond Crystal Kosher salt. If you use Morton's, please reduce the salt by half.
  • 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
  • Nonstick cooking spray or oil for the air fryer basket

Instructions
 

To Make the Sauce

  • In a small bowl, whisk together all of the sauce ingredients. Set this aside while you work on the fish.

To Make the Bang Bang Salmon Bites

  • Preheat your air fryer to 400ºF.
  • Cut the salmon fillets into 1-inch cubes. Add to a mixing bowl.
  • Add the olive oil, granulated garlic, smoked paprika, salt, and black pepper to the salmon and gently stir to evenly coat the salmon with everything. Add half of the bang bang sauce and stir gently again to coat the salmon evenly.
  • Lightly spray the basket of your air fryer with cooking spray or oil. Add salmon cubes to the air fryer, taking care not to overcrowd the basket. You need to leave space between all of the pieces to let air circulate to cook it evenly, so you will almost certainly need to do this in two or three batches, depending on the size of your air fryer.
  • Cook for 8 minutes. As long as you haven't overcrowded the air fryer, you do not need to turn the fish at all during cooking.
  • Serve drizzled with remaining Bang Bang Sauce. These salmon bites are excellent by themselves, but also great with rice, greens, or Asian pasta salad.

Nutrition

Calories: 556kcalCarbohydrates: 16gProtein: 31gFat: 40gSaturated Fat: 6gPolyunsaturated Fat: 21gMonounsaturated Fat: 11gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 99mgSodium: 1185mgPotassium: 787mgFiber: 1gSugar: 15gVitamin A: 420IUVitamin C: 2mgCalcium: 26mgIron: 2mg

Nutritional information is an estimate and provided to you as a courtesy. You should calculate the nutritional information with the actual ingredients used in your recipe using your preferred nutrition calculator.

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