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Honey Garlic Salmon

By:Nagi
Published:10 May '17Updated:4 Apr '23
378 Comments
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This Honey Garlic Salmon is a terrific way to serve salmon that is just sooooo crazy quick and soooo crazy delicious! Head here to see all my quick and easy salmon recipes!

Honey Garlic Salmon recipe original published March 2015. Refreshed with new photos and video in 2017.

A spectacular way to serve salmon which is crazy fast, crazy easy and crazy delicious! Honey Garlic Salmon recipetineats.com

HONEY GARLIC SALMON SAUCE

This Honey Garlic Salmon recipe is all about the sauce. Just four simple pantry essentials in the right proportions – soy sauce, honey, garlic and vinegar.

I used to just whisk up the Sauce and pour it over pan seared Salmon. Then I started adding the sauce into the skillet with the salmon, and that’s even better, so I decided it was time to refresh this recipe (which I posted originally posted in March 2015!) plus I’ve added a recipe video.

When you first mix up the sauce, you won’t think it’s anything special. In fact, it’s pretty flat tasting just as it is. There are some sauces that steal the limelight in a dish – like Sweet & Sour Sauce and the Lemon Cream Sauce in this baked fish.

And then there are other sauces that are designed to compliment the dish it’s served with, rather than taking centre stage itself.

This Honey Garlic Sauce is one of those (as is Garlic Butter with salmon!) Once it’s cooked with the salmon and it caramelises…. WOWEE!!!

A spectacular way to serve salmon which is crazy fast, crazy easy and crazy delicious! Honey Garlic Salmon recipetineats.com

HOW LONG TO COOK SALMON?

3 to 4 minutes on the first side and 2 to 3 minutes on the second side for a standard fillet that’s about 2.5cm / 1″ thick at the thickest part.

This will yield a salmon that is perfectly cooked to medium rare – so the flesh flakes when you cut into it, it’s beautifully moist and coral inside rather than a pale pink / white.

Salmon is a fatty fish so it’s more forgiving if overcooked slightly. But when perfectly cooked, it’s a thing of beauty!!

A spectacular way to serve salmon which is crazy fast, crazy easy and crazy delicious! Honey Garlic Salmon recipetineats.com

This Honey Garlic Salmon recipe is a firm favourite in my household – and it’s been a reader favourite for many years now, ever since I first published it!

It’s a terrific quick and easy way to cook salmon that makes the most of all that we love about salmon – it’s juicy flesh, the salmon flavour, and how the surface caramelises beautifully when seared with the right sauce.

For a quick and easy meal, serve it with a side of steamed vegetables, like broccolini or asparagus shown in the photos. Add some bread or mashed potato for mopping up the sauce, and you’ve got a quick dinner on the table in less than 20 minutes! – Nagi xx


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A spectacular way to serve salmon which is crazy fast, crazy easy and crazy delicious! Honey Garlic Salmon recipetineats.com

Honey Garlic Salmon (5 Ingredients, 15 Minutes)

Author: Nagi | RecipeTin Eats
Prep: 5 minutes mins
Cook: 10 minutes mins
Total: 15 minutes mins
Fish, Seafood
Western
4.96 from 129 votes
Servings2
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Recipe video above. A terrific way to serve salmon that is just sooooo crazy quick and easy and soooo delicious!

Ingredients

Sauce

  • 4 tbsp honey
  • 2 tbsp soy sauce (all purpose or light soy sauce)
  • 1 tbsp white vinegar (or sub with any other vinegar except balsamic)
  • 1 large garlic clove (or 2 small) , minced

Salmon

  • 2 salmon or trout fillets, skinless (6oz / 200g each)
  • Olive oil
  • Salt and pepper

Optional Garnishes

  • Sesame seeds
  • Finely sliced chives or shallots/scallions

Instructions

  • Take salmon out of the fridge 20 minutes before cooking. Pat salmon skin dry with a paper towel and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
  • Whisk together the Sauce ingredients in a small bowl.
  • Drizzle oil in a non stick fry pan and heat over medium high heat (or just under, if your stove runs hot). Place salmon in the pan, and cook the first side for 3 - 4 minutes until golden. Turn, then cook the other side for 2 - 3 minutes or until golden.
  • Pour Sauce over salmon. Cook for 1 minute or until it starts to thicken slightly. Check the side of the salmon to tell how cooked through the middle is - I like mine medium rare inside. (Note 1). If Sauce thickens too much before your salmon is cooked to your taste, just add water 1 tbsp at a time.
  • Remove onto serving plates.
  • Serve salmon drizzled with Sauce, sprinkled with sesame seeds and chives/shallots, if desired.

Recipe Notes:

1. I tell how cooked a salmon is by eye, looking at the side of the salmon. I like mine to be coral inside (rare to medium rare), not pale pink and fully cooked. You can use a thermometer if you want. Insert it into the thickest part - it should be 120F / 50C for medium rare or 130F / 55C for medium.
Remember, the salmon will keep cooking for a minute after removing from the pan.
2. Nutrition per serving, assuming all the sauce is used, which is may not be (a lot of it remains in the fry pan).

Nutrition Information:

Serving: 271gCalories: 583cal (29%)
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378 Comments

  1. Susan Carpenter says

    December 1, 2023 at 6:24 am

    5 stars
    This recipe is a favourite of mine. The dish never fails and tastes better than the sum of its parts!

    Reply
  2. Alice says

    December 1, 2023 at 12:27 am

    Would it be OK to leave the skin on the salmon?

    Reply
  3. Patricia says

    November 23, 2023 at 7:45 pm

    Tonight I made pan seared salmon on placed it on top of rice to which I added steamed spinach. I poured honey garlic sauce on top.
    I had cooked the rice as per you had thought me and then froze it. The rice was so lovely and fluffy.
    Thank you Nagi.

    Reply
  4. Mary says

    September 21, 2023 at 9:30 am

    This sauce is so good and easy! Fish cooked perfectly. Served with sautéed corn, red pepper, shallot and green onion. 😋
    Thanks Nagi and Dozer!

    Reply
  5. sondra grant says

    August 27, 2023 at 5:15 am

    You’re my favolite chef.

    Reply
  6. Marika says

    August 24, 2023 at 6:00 pm

    Nagi I just love your recipes – thank you..
    I cooked your Honey Garlic Salmon for dinner tonight ‘adored it’

    Reply
  7. Marika says

    August 24, 2023 at 6:00 pm

    Nagi I just love your recipes – thank you..
    Cooked the Easy Sweet and Sour Chicken for dinner the other evening ‘delicious’
    I cooked your Honey Garlic Salmon for dinner tonight ‘adored it’

    Reply
  8. AMF says

    July 31, 2023 at 12:06 pm

    5 stars
    This was brilliant. I didn’t even like cooked salmon…until now! 10/10 for easy, fast, healthy and delicious. I’ve made it twice this week already.

    Reply
  9. Ben Sparks says

    June 21, 2023 at 6:22 pm

    5 stars
    Absolutely delicious! Salmon turned out perfectly and the sauce worked perfectly with tenderstem broccoli and potatoes. Will 100% make again!

    Reply
  10. Carole Hamanishi says

    June 9, 2023 at 3:43 am

    5 stars
    This was so delicious. I am going to make again tonight! It’s such a quick and easy way to have an amazing meal on a hot lazy day!

    Reply
  11. Linda G says

    March 28, 2023 at 11:07 pm

    5 stars
    How easy, quick & tasty is this? We loved it. Definitely doing this again next week. That sauce…… 😋 so good to dip my veggies into too (& plenty of it 👍)

    Reply
  12. Jo-Ann McMahon says

    March 21, 2023 at 10:51 pm

    This is my go to for a quick tasty salmon meal. I adore it and make it at least once a week. I do it with mashed sweet potato broccolini and asparagus. Delicious.

    Reply
  13. Sarah Jones says

    March 21, 2023 at 8:44 am

    4 stars
    I love how easy this is. The sauce was I tiny bit too sweet for me, next time I will try one less spoon of honey and a bit more garlic. Thank you for so many creative and simple recipes to keep dinner interesting!

    Reply
  14. Kate says

    February 1, 2023 at 7:00 pm

    5 stars
    I made this with some top quality NZ King Ora that I bought as a treat tonight… and OMG it was divine. Thanks Nagi! Your recipes are always spot on.

    Reply
  15. Stuart says

    January 31, 2023 at 12:11 pm

    5 stars
    Thanks Nagi, I made this last night after making the same with pork fillet recently.
    Both tasted excellent and the recipe is so simple. Thank you

    Reply
  16. Jess says

    January 29, 2023 at 7:16 pm

    5 stars
    Nagi strikes again, this is delicious! Super easy, my fussy hubby loved it. I paired it with steamed white rice and some steamed broccolini and zucchini, the sauce was plenty to flavour everything. Thank you!

    Reply
  17. Andy says

    December 9, 2022 at 8:07 pm

    Hi Nagi,

    I cooked the honey garlic salmon – it was great. I chose it because I was running late and didn’t want to waste time marinating, How do you think I would go using swordfish, instead of salmon.

    Reply
  18. Eirianwen Blackford says

    November 26, 2022 at 5:55 am

    5 stars
    Loved this honey garlic salmon. So easy. Meal was ready in 8 mins! I made baby spinach and used leftover mashed potato from last night. The sauce was soaked up in the potatoes . I have made so many of your meals Nagi. They are all so tasty. Thank you.

    Reply
  19. Kelly says

    November 10, 2022 at 2:25 pm

    5 stars
    GREAT!!!! We even put the sauce on the broccoli 🥦!

    Reply
  20. Pam says

    October 24, 2022 at 6:31 pm

    5 stars
    We had the salmon, and found this recipe, yey !!
    My husband said how would you rate this one ?
    I had to admit I thought 10/10 and he agreed, saying it was the best salmon he has had !

    Reply
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