Easy Honey Garlic Salmon

This perfect sweet and savoury, five-ingredient garlicky sauce with a hint of lemon will become your family’s new salmon obsession. This tasty honey garlic salmon can be whipped up in only 15 minutes. It’s no secret you all are loving this Browned Butter Honey Garlic Salmon two years after posting it, way back when Cafe Delites was still a baby. Following the success of our Browned Butter Honey Garlic Salmon video recipe, a few readers have been writing in to ask if there is any possible way to avoid browning butter. This recipe does exactly that!

HONEY GARLIC SALMON RECIPE

If you’ve tried some of our other honey garlic recipes like our Easy Honey Garlic Shrimp, Easy Honey Garlic Chicken or our Easy Honey Garlic Pork Chops, you are absolutely going to love this super easy recipe! To be honest, the browned butter, mixed with that sweet honey garlic sauce is what made our popular browned butter salmon recipe stand out from the rest. But, because the people have spoken, we have simplified this honey garlic salmon recipe and there’s nothing wrong with simplifying a recipe! In fact, you guys are going to love this one, if not more than the previous one.

PAN-SEARED SALMON

The salmon gets cooked right in the sauce. There’s no searing or frying first. Why? Because a lot of people get anxiety at the thought of frying then flipping salmon and having the fillets fall apart on them halfway through cooking. But how do I get the same crispy edges from searing? Well, once the salmon is half way done, you’re going to broil your fillets for a couple more minutes (or grill them if you’re in Australia) for that extra golden, crispy and caramelised finish.

HONEY GARLIC SAUCE FOR SALMON

This recipe is perfect for when you have no idea what to cook. Grab some salmon fillets and rest assured, you likely have most of the ingredients in the pantry or refrigerator already. For a stronger, lemon flavoured salmon, add the wedges into the pan when your sauce is bubbling (you will get all of the flavour from the lemon skin). For a milder flavour, leave them out.

WHAT TO SERVE WITH HONEY GARLIC SALMON

We have so many delicious sides that would pair perfectly with your salmon. Try our Crispy Garlic Roasted Potatoes, Buttery Sautéed Green Beans, or our Grilled Asparagus.