Salmon Bok Choy Easy Air Fryer Salmon Bok Choy With Shiitakes

This Air Fryer Salmon is full of beautiful umami flavor. The salmon pairs beautifully with the bok choy and the shiitake mushrooms making a gorgeous meal you can be proud to serve. If you’re apprehensive about cooking the salmon in the air fryer, don’t be. The skin turns so crispy and amazing, and the marinating step makes sure all those amazing flavors are soaked up in the salmon before it’s even cooked.

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

Quick. Omitting the time to marinate the salmon, you can have a tasty and healthy dessert in 30 minutes or less. Easy. Marinate the salmon, prep the veggies, and air fry. Tasty. Rich with flavor with minimal effort. Pescatarian-friendly. Wanting to skip the beef, chicken, pork, and lamb? You can still have a meal that is incredibly filling and high in protein.

One of my favorite things about this Air Fryer Salmon Recipe with Bok Choy is that it’s cooked in one pan. The only thing you will need to clean after dinner is the air fryer basket and your dinner plates. This is why I value my air fryer so much, is because outside of making beautiful food and recipes, it also makes cleaning up so much easier. Make sure that you don’t stick the Bok Choy and mushrooms in for the whole time with the salmon. I note this in the recipe but wanted to make sure you saw this here. Your vegetables will only need to cook for about 6 minutes in the air fryer because any longer than that they will be overcooked and turn to mush.

Ingredients You’ll Need

For The Salmon

Garlic ClovesMinced GingerGrated orange zestOrange juiceSoy Sauce Rice VinegarVegetable OilKosher SaltSalmon Fillets

For the Vegetables

Baby bok choy, halved lenghtwiseDried Shiitake MushroomsDark Sesame OilKosher SaltSesame Seeds

Can You Make Salmon in an Air Fryer?

Not only can you make salmon in the air fryer, but it is actually my preferred way to make it.

For one, it’s a lot easier to clean up than cleaning the splatters off the stove top.Secondly–and this to me is the much more important reason to do it–your whole house doesn’t smell like fish. I know I should eat more fish, and I try–but I really can’t stand that lingering smell of fish in my house. To get rid of that fish smell–okay, well. It’s easier to NOT have the fish smell in your house in the first place! Using an air fryer keeps that smell confined, and since the mess is easy to clean up, you don’t have fishy splatters to contend with.

But the main reason to make air fryer salmon?

Taste. Yup what else would you expect from a foodie like me? AIr fryer salmon is perfect, flaky, and if you use a good marinade, the top can be beautifully caramelized and sweet, and lightly crispy.