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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.
Thanks for the recipe! Made tonight and it was delicious. Partner exclaimed that it was the best salmon he’s ever tasted. Little one was not a fan of the lime zest and had to scrape it off, but she enjoyed it regardless.
Thanks for the recipe! We recently had salmon for probably the first time in my kid’s lives and they all loved it too. And they call every kind of meat chicken. Even if we correct them, it becomes salmon chicken, ham chicken, etc. Call it whatever you want if you eat it, haha!
Thank you so much for sharing! This was delicious. My husband was so impressed and that doesn’t happen often! This recipe was easy and the payoff was amazing!
made this for my family and we enjoyed
This was Awesome!!! I was a little unsure of the sauce but it all came together so perfect! I just wish we would have had more.. my kids were devouring it too..thank you always for the best recipes! This will be a summer BBQ hit!
I’m about to make this but …what’s the 3 tablespoons of lime juice for? …the sauce? …the pan? or just drizzle over the fish when done? I’m perplexed lol
It goes into the brown butter sauce.
but the ingredients call for lime juice,however the recipe never mentions it again??
You think this would be good with tilapia?
I am drooling on the keyboard!
This looks great!
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We have slowly been adding more Tilapia into our menus. The more we eat it, the more I am liking it. You have me convinced I need to try eating salmon next…but it definitely needs this brown butter sauce!
This looks incredible Alyssa!
Hello! This sounds amazing!
Making thi right now!
Oh my, that looks so delicious! I love lime on anything!!
YUM; we love samon and this sounds incredible Alyssa! Can’t wait to try this soon! Thanks girl!
Eek, so I have a weird, irrational fear of fish ever since I fainted at the fish hatchery in the third grade. So I never cook it at home, ever, but I do enjoy eating it at restaurants! One of these days I must conquer my fear because this looks SO good. Hello, brown butter on anything instantly makes it amazing times eleventy thousand. Love!
Yummmm, this looks awesome! I have some salmon sitting in my fridge ready to be cooked! This looks like just the recipe to try!
I LOVE salmon! This recipe is so up my ally! It sounds awesome!