Carole Food.

This is now my new favourite way to cook salmon (and believe me I have a lot of ways I cook salmon!). The salmon is coated in a dry rub spice and then it’s served with a garlic and honey butter sauce. You will not regret making this! 

If you’re looking for another salmon dish, be sure to try out these recipes:

• Creamy Spring Salmon
• Coconut Salmon Curry

Why you’ll love this dish

• Easy - this is unbelievably easy for the amount of flavour in the dish! 
• Quick - this recipe is super quick and ready in about 15 minutes. It's the perfect thing to make for your mid week dinner, but it's also 100% delicious enough to serve when you've got friends coming over!

What ingredients do you need for this dish (includes possible substitutions)? 

Salmon: skin on please! 

Spices: this provides the main flavour to the dish, however sometimes I’ll mix it up, e.g. if I don’t have onion powder, I’ll just add double the amount of garlic (and vice versa). Also sometimes instead of dried thyme I’ll use dried oregano. 

Butter: preferably use unsalted, but if you only have salted that’s fine, just add a bit less salt to the salmon. 

Garlic: use as much as you can bother to chop! My limit was 4...

Honey: runny honey or set honey will both work here, but there's no need for using expensive honey here!

Light soy sauce: can’t really be substituted with anything. 

Lime: can be substituted with lemon if needed!

What to serve this with? 

Noodles, rice, a side of green vegetables, potato salad…I can’t imagine many things this wouldn’t go with! 

Instructions 

Coat the salmon in the spices 

In a small bowl, add all of the spices and salt then mix well. Place the salmon pieces on a large plate then coat the salmon well with the spices. 

Cook the salmon 

In a large non-stick frying pan over a medium heat, add 1-2 tbsp of oil then the salmon fillets, skin side down. Please note ‘non-stick’ frying pan! Salmon skin has a tendency to stick to pans if they’re not non-stick or seasoned well. Fry for about 3, then flip the fillets over and cook for another 2 minutes. Once the salmon is fully cooked, remove from the pan and set aside. The way I usually tell that salmon is fully cooked is because it's warm in the thickest part, and when pressed lightly it starts to flake.

Make the sauce 

Remove any excess oil then add the butter. Once that’s melted, add the garlic and cook until golden, about 2 minutes. Reduce the heat to low then add the soy sauce and honey. Stir until melted then turn off the heat and add the lime juice. Add the salmon back to the pan and spoon over the sauce. And that’s it!