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I love salmon but hardly make it because I know that my boys won’t eat it. So I usually order it every time that we go out to eat. But I have been wanting to eat salmon for a long time so I decided to make it for myself for lunch. This was the BEST salmon I think that I have had. It tasted like I was at a 5 star restaurant eating this. And I love that it was pan seared and had a crust to it and it was so tender and melted in my mouth! And holy cow. Have you tried brown butter? It is like crack! I have made brown butter frosting before but this brown butter lime sauce to top the salmon was perfection!
I wanted to make my little boy try this when he got home from school. Because unlike the picky one, he will at least try everything! I had him try a bite and he said, Mom, this chicken is AMAZING!! I think I will make ‘chicken’ more often!! 😉
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Honey Glazed Salmon with Browned Butter Lime Sauce
Ingredients
- 4 (6-ounce) salmon fillets
- 8 teaspoons flour, divided
- 8 teaspoons honey divided
- zest of 2 limes
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
Instructions
- Pat the salmon fillets dry and sprinkle 2 teaspoons of flour on each fillet. Drizzle 2 teaspoons of honey on each floured filet.
- Heat 1 tablespoon of oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add the filets and cook for 3-5 minutes on each side until they are browned and cooked through.
- For the browned butter sauce, heat the butter in a small saucepan over medium heat.
- Once the butter is melted, turn up the heat just a notch above medium and continue to cook, stirring constantly, it will froth and then brown.
- Remove the browned butter from the heat and whisk in the lime juice, honey, garlic, salt, and pepper.
- Pour the browned butter sauce over the salmon sprinkle with your lime zest, and enjoy!
Notes
•Cuisinart Stainless Steel Chopper
•Calphalon Cookware Set
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I found the lime zest! Sorry to miss it the first time reading the recipe. This was delicious. Thank you so much for the recipe..
I am planning to make this recipe this week. I see from the other comments that the lime juice goes in with the butter. I was wondering what I do with the zest of 2 limes. Does it go with the flour and honey on the salmon when I brown it? In with the sauce? This sounds delicious and I love lime so want to use the zest. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Hello!! Thanks for wanting to try this recipe! The lime zest is used to garnish the salmon before serving
Made this salmon recipe for dinner last night. I had the same question that was raised on here about the 3TBSP of lime juice but just mixed it in with the butter sauce. The salmon was out of this world!! I will definitely make it again!
This is my go to Salmon recipe if I’m not baking it and has become our favorite… thank you.
I really love your chicken recipe ?
Made several years ago and forgot about this recipe. Made tonight and it was delicious! I’m not forgetting it again!
My salmon is Loooong (for large group) and no pan big enough to fry, may I bake it instead?
Hi Jamylah!
Yes! You can absolutely bake the salmon. It should take just great! Thanks for following along with me!
This was really amazing! My daughter who doesn’t normally like salmon ate this…it is really good chicken! Thanks!
BUT WHERE do you use the Lime juice? Huh?
You will add the lime juice with the butter.
Could you please correct the recipe and include what to do with the lime juice?
It is a little confusing but it is in the ingredients. The format on my site has a bullet next to the brown butter sauce. Here it is listed for you. Hope that helps! XOXO
Browned Butter Lime Sauce
6 Tablespoons Butter
3 Tbsp fresh lime juice
1 tsp honey
1 clove garlic, minced
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
Alyssa, you should add the lime juice to the list of ingredients whisked into the sauce in instruction #4. That’s where the confusion is coming from. Can’t wait to try this.
This is better than any resturant salmon!!!
This is better than any resturant salmon!!! Absolutely DELICIOUS!
I happened upon your recipe for the “Browned butter – honey lime – salmon. Sounded great. I printed out the instructions and pre-measured out the ingredients……… Including the lime juice. As the salmon was cooking, I made the sauce, but as we ate the salmon, I looked over at the counter top and realized that your instructions made no mention as to when or where to use the lime juice…”Oops!” I believe that the juice was intended to be added to the sauce mix as the butter etc. sauce was whisked together, BUT…….. you left that out of the instructions! It was good anywhay, but I will be re-making the recipe next week, USING the lime juice in the sauce! Any other suggestions???
Yummy! This was a hit in my household! I will definitely make this again! I shared a picture to my friends and many friends asked for the recipe 🙂
I’m making this tonight – looks super yummy – but it calls for 3 TBLs of lime juice and then never says when to use it. I’m guessing it goes in the sauce. Just looked at other comments and see the answer.
If I wanted to bake the salmon, how long and what temp? Should I put sauce on while cooking? Thanks
would it be awful to use margarine instead of butter for someone who cant have dairy?
This looks so good! I have everything except the lime. I do have lemon. Will that work in this recipe?