Air Fryer Harissa-Lime Salmon
with Yellow Rice & Shirazi Salad
- Fish
For this Mediterranean meal, salmon fillets are marinated in a well-balanced mixture of smoky-spicy harissa powder, honey, and lime juice, then air fried until crisp skinned and flaky. The salmon is served over vibrant turmeric rice and topped with shirazi, a fresh, juicy Persian-style salad of tomato, cucumber, and red onion seasoned with parsley, dill, and sumac.
Ingredients
1 teaspoon
Turmeric
1 unit
Lime
1 unit
Tomato
¼ ounce
Parsley
¼ ounce
Dill
1 tablespoon
Harissa Powder
2 teaspoon
Honey
10 ounce
Salmon
(Contains: Fish)
1 teaspoon
Sumac
1 unit
Mini Cucumber
1 unit
Red Onion
¾ cup
Jasmine Rice
Not included in your delivery
Salt
Pepper
Cooking Oil
Sugar
Olive Oil
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
• Heat a drizzle of oil in a small pot over medium-high heat. Add 1⁄4 tsp turmeric (1⁄2 tsp for 4 servings) and cook, stirring, until fragrant, 30-60 seconds. • Add rice, 1 1⁄4 cups water (2 1⁄4 cups for 4), and a pinch of salt. Bring to a boil, then cover and reduce to a low simmer. Cook until rice is tender, 15-18 minutes. • Keep covered off heat until ready to serve.
• While rice cooks, wash and dry produce. • Halve and peel onion; dice until you have 2 TBSP (4 TBSP for 4 servings). (Save remaining onion for another use.) Quarter lime. Dice tomato. Trim and quarter cucumber lengthwise; cut crosswise into 1⁄4-inch pieces. Roughly chop parsley. Pick and roughly chop fronds from dill. • In a large bowl, mix diced onion with a squeeze of lime juice, a pinch of sugar, and a pinch of salt. Set aside.
• Preheat air fryer to 400 degrees. (Skip this if you don’t have an air fryer!) • In a medium bowl, combine harissa powder, honey, a drizzle of oil, juice from two lime wedges (four wedges for 4 servings), salt, and pepper. • Pat salmon dry with paper towels. Add to bowl with marinade and rub to coat.
• Line preheated air fryer with parchment. Place salmon on parchment, skin sides up; air-fry until skin is crisp and salmon is cooked through, 8-10 minutes. • STOVETOP ALTERNATIVE: Don’t have an air fryer? No problem! Heat a drizzle of oil in a large pan over medium-high heat. Add salmon, skin sides down, and cook until skin is crisp, 4-6 minutes. Flip and cook until salmon is cooked through, 2-3 minutes more.
• While salmon cooks, to bowl with onion mixture, add tomato, cucumber, parsley, dill, sumac, a large drizzle of olive oil, juice from remaining lime, salt, and pepper. Stir to combine.
• Fluff rice with a fork. • Divide rice between shallow bowls. Top with salmon. Spoon Shirazi salad over salmon and serve.
Fish is fully cooked when internal temperature reaches 145°.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Feb 2026- Flavor: Many loved the complex, delicious flavors, especially in the salad; some found the salmon marinade too sweet or bland.
- Ease of prep: Air fryer instructions were appreciated for easy, crispy salmon, though a few had issues with burning.
- Suggestions: Consider adding a sauce or creamy component; some found extra seasoning or lemon improved the dish 🍋.
- Portions: Several mentioned the salmon portion was smaller than expected or desired.
- Texture: Air fryer produced tender salmon with crispy skin; the fresh cucumber-tomato salad added a refreshing crunch.
Reviews from our home cooks
Great flavors! The salad was nice and fresh. Salmon in the air fryer turned out really tender with crispy skin.
The spices in the salad were excellent (so fresh and tasty) and it was super easy to clean the air fryer after cooking the salmon since it used parchment paper.
The rice was bland. Otherwise one of the best HF meals I've gotten. Usually I avoid salmon recipes because the fish is "fishy" but not this time. Appreciate the air fryer option - cooked up perfectly.
Delicious and easy to make - def making salmon in the air fryer more
Absolutely delicious. Air fryer fish has the best texture! The spice/flavors were complex and yummy.
I really liked the salad, however it reminded me of another recipe I really really like and with the way the rice came out (shockingly bland) I would probably just end up using the tabbouleh recipe that also uses bulger wheat. The turmeric didn't really add a lot of flavor, some onion or garlic would have done wonders, like how some couscous is made. I've never used an air fryer to make salmon but that method really worked out!
I put one piece of salmon, skin side up and one piece of salmon, skin side down in the air fryer. The one with the skin side up was much better.
I really enjoyed this recipe, it was not only filling but the cucumber-tomato salad give this dish a nice refreshing flavor. However I did find that the rice ended up being too dry for me and honestly the quality of the salmon was not good, luckily the seasoning masked the fishy taste but also using a white fish could have been better.
Easy to cook, clear instructions, tasty, healthy. (Nice size of the salmon slice.)
I really liked the flavors and texture of the salmon! Would make again. The roma tomatoes are always terrible and unusable, I had to get my own.
