Salmon Banh Mi Baguettes
with Spicy Slaw & Cucumber Spears
- Fish
- Eggs
- Soy
- Wheat
Tonight’s dinner features our spin on a Vietnamese banh mi sandwich with a twist from the sea: salmon! Quick-cooking, flavorful, and dressed with sweet Thai chili sauce, this fish makes a perfect sandwich-stuffer. It’s piled high with a spicy lime-spiked cabbage-cilantro slaw and loaded into toasty baguettes for a sammie experience you won’t forget any time soon. Top with a final squeeze of lime juice, serve crisp cucumber spears and extra slaw on the side, then prepare for total taste bud takeover.
Ingredients
10 ounce
Salmon
(Contains: Fish)
1 ounce
Sweet Thai Chili Sauce
¼ ounce
Cilantro
1 unit
Mini Cucumber
1 unit
Lime
4 ounce
Coleslaw Mix
2 tablespoon
Mayonnaise
(Contains: Eggs)
1 teaspoon
Sriracha
2 unit
Demi-Baguette
(Contains: Soy, Wheat)
Not included in your delivery
Cooking Oil
Salt
Pepper
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
• Pat salmon dry with paper towels and season all over with salt and pepper. • Heat a drizzle of oil in a large, preferably nonstick, pan over medium-high heat. Add salmon to pan (skin sides down) and cook until skin is crisp, 5-7 minutes. • Flip and cook until cooked through, 1-2 minutes more. TIP: While salmon cooks, move on to the rest of the recipe. • Once cooked, remove skin and discard; transfer salmon to a medium bowl. Using a fork, break salmon into pieces. Stir in chili sauce.
• Wash and dry produce. • Roughly chop cilantro. Quarter lime. Trim and quarter cucumber lengthwise into spears.
• In a second medium bowl, combine coleslaw mix, cilantro, mayonnaise, Sriracha, a squeeze of lime juice (big squeeze for 4 servings), salt, and pepper. TIP: For a brighter flavor, add more lime.
• Halve and toast baguettes until golden; fill with salmon and as much spicy slaw as you like. • Divide sandwiches between plates. Serve with cucumber spears and any remaining spicy slaw on the side.
Fish is fully cooked when internal temperature reaches 145°.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Sep 2026- Flavor: The sweet-and-spicy slaw, chili-glazed salmon, and toasted baguette make a bold, memorable combination 🌶️.
- Ease of prep: Most found it quick and straightforward; toasting the baguettes added a satisfying crunch with minimal effort.
- Suggestions: Many felt the baguettes overpowered the filling — try using less bread, eating open-faced, or swapping in tortillas or naan. Add more sweet Thai chili sauce to fully coat the salmon, and consider slicing cucumbers into the sandwich rather than serving them plain on the side. A few also loved adding extra sriracha or lime to the slaw for more kick.
- Leftovers: The salmon and slaw kept well enough for a next-day lunch, though some noted the slaw softened quickly.
- Customization: Cooking the salmon in an air fryer worked great for some; others grilled it or baked it in the oven for more even results.
Reviews from our home cooks
Really great in some ways, but feels honestly wrong to call something with a creamy slaw and no pickled component a banh mi. As is I felt like this was more like a "southeast Asian inspired po boy" in a way. I added hoisin to the salmon instead of Thai chili sauce, cut the cucumber into slices to add to the sandwiches, and quick-pickled the carrot/cabbage mixture to add to the sandwich, applying the mayo to half the bread.
This was a surprise to my taste buds! The cole slaw is now my favorite and will be using this version with cilantro, sriracha and lime! To reduce carbs, I simply added the chili sauce to the top of my salmon.
Very good! Not spicy once the sauces are mixed in. The amount of coleslaw doesn't leave a lot to be eaten on the side, but that's fine. I did find a few bones in my salmon, so look out for that.
Delicious different take on the classic banh mi. Salmon is always a family favorite, so this recipe was a tasty one!
Loved the flavors with the salmon and Cole slaw. Although I wasn't a fan of the plain cucumber spears.
We didn't eat it until Friday so the coleslaw had browned. I made the dressing for the coleslaw and spread it on the toasted rolls and made Salmon as directed and YUM! Will order again...
One of the best meals...I only wish there was a side dish other than 2 cucumber spears. But the salmon was great!
I really love the sandwich aspect of it. The salmon is great, and the main part of the meal is excellent. One of my favorites. The two downsides here are that there isn't really a side. We put all of the slaw on the sandwich and there wasn't really any leftover. Some chips or potatoes would've been good. And cucumber spears are fine I guess but really it should've been pickle spears.
The idea was fine but the baguettes were a little too much bread. I love bread but the first two and the last two were just bread. The sandwiches were just too fat. Slaw and salmon good combo though.
One jalapeño pepper per two servings in addition to or in place of the cucumber would be nice. The plainness of the cucumber was a little out of place (but not terrible) next to the stronger flavors of the bahn mi.
