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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.
does anyone know how many calories this is
Ok, where do the three tablespoons of lime juice go?
In the brown butter sauce.
Looks delicious, I’d love to make it but have celiac kids. How important is the flour? Do you think it would work with a gluten free flour like potato flour?
Thanks!
The brown butter lime sauce is listed as one of the ingredients…but then it tells you to make it? I’m confused! Do i buy it with the rest of the ingredients, or am I creating it WITH the ingredients? Why is it listed as one ingredient?
You are creating it with the ingredients.
Make sure you don’t buy farm raised salmon. Most restaurants use farm raised.
This looks so good! I have never tried making salmon but I might now. Would this work with lemon instead of lime?
Where do i put the lime juice?
I’m thinking. Scary thing to be doing today. But in my mind I think that to take the thinner end of the fillet (after cooking), let it cool and then break it up over a bowl of salad and use some of the brown butter lime sauce as the dressing for the salad. What do you think Alyssa?
Looks great and yummy
I love the recipe, but when I tried to Pin it, however, on my board it comes up as The Recipe Critic Slow Cooker Mongolian Chicken, the recipe is the chicken recipe but the picture is that of Honey-Glazed Salmon with brown butter and lime sauce. I’d love to save this recipe, can you fix it?
Isn’t that annoying? I have been trying to get pinterest to fix it for weeks! The picture is right just not the name so you can still pin it. 🙂
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I’m guessing the lime juice gets whisked into the browned butter after coming off the heat? I don’t see where it’s added in the directions. I’m making this tonight so hopefully I do it right 😉
is it just me, or is the lime jucie missing in the brown butter instructions?
other tan that, everyting sounds amazing.
i love salmon but never know how to cook it or whether to buy fresh or frozen. Any advice would be appreciated.
I always buy fresh but I am sure frozen would be ok if you thaw it out. 🙂
I regularly buy large, fresh salmon fillets, then cut them into meal sized portions and freeze them in resealable freezer bags. Thaw when needed and cook how you like. If in a hurry, put the bagged salmon in a bowl of cool/tepid water to thaw faster. change water as needed.
I was wondering if anyone has tried this recipe and cooked the salmon a different way…like in the oven or on the grill?
I have grilled the fish, and made the sauce to pour on top. Tasted wonderful, and didn’t stink up the house.
This was a really easy, really fast, and excellent. Great recipe.