This delicious honey glazed salmon is basted with garlic, ginger, butter, sriracha, and lemon sauce while searing to tender perfection. There’s just enough honey in our salmon glaze to caramelize the edges. And I know you’re going to love it. Let me show you why this is my current favorite salmon recipe.
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Ingredients For Honey Garlic Salmon
With just a few ingredients, this caramelized, slightly sweet, and full of umami flavor honey glazed salmon recipe comes to life. Here’s what to collect and a few notes:
- Salmon: I prefer wild caught salmon filets, as they contain a lower level of contaminants. Varieties such as Coho have the most mild salmon flavor, while Sockeye is stronger in salmon flavor and higher in fat.
- Sauce for salmon: Butter, garlic, ginger, soy sauce, water, sriracha, lemon juice, honey, and red pepper flakes.
How to Modify This Sauce for Salmon
This honey garlic salmon is delicious as is, but also easy to modify. Here are a few ways to tweak the salmon glaze:
- Spicier: Add more red pepper flakes.
- Reduce the sugar content: You can add less honey or swap it for a keto sweetener, just know your salmon won’t caramelize as well along the edges.
- Fresh herbs: Finish your pan seared salmon with fresh herbs to switch up the flavor profile.
How to Make Honey Glazed Salmon
This honey glazed salmon recipe comes together easily in an oven safe pan, here’s how with step-by-step photos to guide you:
- Season salmon, since our salmon glaze is so flavor packed I’m just using salt and pepper here. Feel free to use your favorite salmon seasoning if you prefer.
- Saute garlic and ginger.
- Add all other sauce for salmon ingredients to the pan.
- Add the salmon and sear on each side.
- Flip and baste until salmon is cooked through.
Storing + Reheating Tips
When lightly reheated or served cold (ideas below…), this honey glazed salmon makes for great leftovers. Here’s how to make the most of them:
- Store salmon in an airtight container, with additional sauce on the side.
- Reheat in the microwave until just warm. Keep in mind that salmon dries out easily, so the texture may not be as tender as it was when served fresh.
Epic Leftover Ideas
We absolutely love cold salmon leftovers. We use it in all sorts of recipes, including:
- Salmon salads can be thrown together with just about anything you have in the fridge. Use the leftover salmon glaze as a dressing, or take a note from my smoked salmon salad dressing.
- Chop salmon into bite sized pieces and toss them into burritos, salmon bowls, or tacos.
- Flake the salmon and use it in dozens of ways, such as salmon patties, in a salmon frittata, as a smoked salmon dip, or as you would canned salmon in this mayo based canned salmon salad.
More Salmon Recipes
Honey Glazed Salmon
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Salmon:
- 1 pound skinless salmon cut into 4 filets
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
Sauce:
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 2 teaspoons ginger peeled + minced
- 1 tablespoon water
- 3 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 tablespoons sriracha
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 1/3 cup honey
Instructions
- Pat salmon dry with paper towels. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, and press to adhere.
- In a large pan (such as a cast iron), melt the butter over medium heat. Add the garlic and ginger, and saute until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add the water, soy sauce, sriracha, lemon juice, red pepper flakes, and honey. Stir to combine.
- Place the salmon skin side down (even if using skinless) in your pan. Cook, basting the salmon in sauce frequently, until the skin is crispy, or the bottom is golden. Flip, and continue to cook on the other side until golden and salmon is cooked through.
- Be sure to drizzle salmon with additional sauce before serving, and enjoy!
