Blackberry Chipotle Glazed Salmon or Wedding Dinner Salmon

Blackberry Chipotle Glazed Salmon baked in the oven and brushed with sweet and spicy glaze is easy enough for weeknight dinner idea and fancy enough for a special wedding or occasion.

Wedding Dinner Salmon with Blackberry Chipotle Glaze

My sister, Donna, posted this recipe in May 2011 and it has been a favorite of her family ever since.

There are some dishes associated with the great events of our lives. The first dinner we cooked for our spouse. The first food we fed to our babies. The dish that makes Christmas Christmas.

Blackberry Chipotle Glazed Salmon is now one of those dishes for me. I will forever remember this as my son Matt's Wedding Dinner Salmon.

I wanted a dish that was easy enough to feed to a crowd of 40, but special enough to do honor to his marriage to Sarah, his lovely bride and our newest daughter. But, what to make? Salmon! It's fast, easy and says Special Occasion.

Why This Blackberry Salmon is Perfect for Weddings or Weekdays

• This is a fast and easy recipe with only a few ingredients.
• The glaze can be made with Blackberry Jam or fresh blackberries that is quick with no mess.
• You can cook this Blackberry Chipotle Salmon on a sheet pan making it easy to cook this recipe for a crowd.
• Salmon is very impressive for guests without breaking the budget.
• Cover the sheet pan with foil for easy clean up.
• Cook extra salmon and turn the leftovers into this Terriyaki Salmon and Rice Poke Bowl or make these yummy Salmon Croquettes with fresh salmon.
• It's a great recipe to tryout in your smoker like this Traeger Smoked Salmon.

Tips for How to Cook Salmon

Salmon is very versatile and can be cooked many different ways. The key is how long you cooke the salmon and at what temperature..

• The key to cooking delicious salmon is to NOT over cook the salmon.
• Salmon is a very flakey fish and can over cook in minutes.
• There should be medium with a pink center in the salmon, just a thin pink line will do.
• Salmon should flake slightly in the pan but it should still be moist and not flake apart. It is over cooked if the salmon flakes apart in the pan or on the grill.
• Some albumin ( the liquid protein that appears as a white substance on the surface of the fish) is very normal. But, if it is excessive, the temperature is too high and the fish is cooking too quickly. Reduce the heat. If this happens, your salmon is still good, just a little dry and over done.
• Salmon is great in the air fryer! When cooking air fryer salmon, remember that glazes and sweet sauces like BBQ sauce can burn very quickly. Brush the sauce on the salmon just a minute or two before removing from the air fryer. Leave it in only long enough to heat through.
• Cast Iron Salmon is delicious, you can get a great sear on the salmon and a crispy skin.
• this Blackberry Chipotle Glazed Salmon is delicious!

You'll love this Blackberry Chipotle Glazed Salmon, it's delicious!

This recipe is perfect for other types of flakey fish, Try it on Spigola al Forno, or Oven Roasted Sea Bass

How to Make Blackberry Chipotle Glazed Salmon

You won't believe what a quick and easy recipe this is!

First, make the 5 ingredient Blackberry Chipotle Glaze. That's right, only 5 ingredients!

• First, Preheat your oven to 400 degrees.
• Next, stir the Blackberry Jelly OR Jam, stock or water, red wine vinegar, Chipotle in Adobo and ground cumin (optional) together in a very small sauce pan.
• Bring the glaze mixture to boil over medium heat and immediately turn down the heat and simmer. Stir constantly until the desired thickness, about 2 minutes. Be careful, this part goes very quickly and you don't want to scorch the glaze.
• Cover a sheet pan with aluminum foil or parchment paper and brush with vegetable oil.
• Place the salmon filets on the prepared sheet pan, brush with vegetable oil and season with salt and black or white pepper.
• Brush a light coating of blackberry glaze on the salmon.

• Bake the Blackberry Chipotle Glazed Salmon for 4 minutes.
• Remove the salmon from the oven and turn up the heat to 450 degrees.
• Brush a second light coat of glaze over the salmon.
• Return the salmon to the oven and cook another 3 minutes.
• Serve immediately, it cools very quickly.

Tip for Cooking Salmon for a Crowd

Salmon cooks very quickly as does most fish dishes so, to make sure the salmon is hot and not over cooked, here are a few of my tips for cooking salmon.

• It is very important to have all of the ingredients out and ready for making your salmon dish. For example: don't try to make the glaze while the salmon is in the oven.
• Next tip: Have all of the other dishes you plan to serve completely cooked and ready to serve before you put the salmon in the oven. Salmon cooks quickly.
• Set the table and fill the water glasses... have everything ready before putting the salmon in the oven.
• Make sure your guests or family are on their way to the table before placing the salmon in the oven.
• Remember: the salmon only takes 7 to 8 minutes to cook that's about how long it takes for a large group to get to the table and get settled in their seats, they can always start passing the side dishes around while you bring the salmon to the table.
• Heat the serving platter so the salmon is placed on a warm dish, that will help keep the salmon warm on the table.

Blackberry Recipes You Might Like

If you love blackberries the way we do, you are going to love these recipes!

Grilled Peach Salad with Goat Cheese, Blackberries and Lemon Vinaigrette

Spicy Blackberry Jalapeno Chutney with Seared Salmon

The Elvis Peanut Butter and Fried Banana Sandwich with Bacon Recipe

I hope you love this very, very easy Baked Blackberry Chipotle Salmon dish.

Be sure to save it on Pinterest or Facebook for later or download the recipe so you can have it at your finger tips the next time you need an fancy wedding salmon recipe or a quick and easy dinner idea.

Photo Credits Donna Kelly and © Boris Ryzhkov | Dreamstime.com

Chicken? Not fancy enough. Steak? Expensive and not something that would play well in a large group of diverse eaters. Pasta? Too cheap-o. How about salmon? Wild Alaskan Salmon is lovely this time of year, and has that feeling that screams "This is a Special Occasion!" So, salmon it was.

I wanted to give it a southwest twist, a sweet note and packed with flavor. So, I thought of a blackberry glaze with some chipotle. Perfect sweet heat. I must confess here that this salmon recipe was not entirely my own idea. Genius home cook extraordinaire Joanne of Eats Well With Others made salmon with a chipotle/apricot jam glaze. and this is a take on hers. Thanks, Joanne. Please let me cook you dinner next time you're in my neighborhood! I owe you Big Time.