Best Sweet Glazed Salmon Recipes

SWEET GLAZED SALMON

Steps:

• Heat 1/4 teaspoon olive oil in a small skillet over medium-high heat. Saute garlic in hot oil until just beginning to brown.
• Mix sauteed garlic, soy sauce, lemon juice, honey, 1/2 teaspoon olive oil, brown sugar, sea salt, black pepper, and red pepper flakes together in a bowl; pour into a large resealable plastic bag. Add salmon fillets, turning to coat with the marinade, squeeze bag to remove excess air, and seal the bag. Marinate in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
• Remove salmon from the marinade and shake to remove excess liquid. Reserve 3 tablespoons marinade and discard remainder.
• Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Arrange salmon fillets in the hot skillet, pour reserved marinade over the salmon, and place a lid on the skillet; cook until salmon is browned on each side and flakes easily with a fork, occasionally spooning liquid from the pan over the fillets, 2 to 3 minutes per side. Garnish salmon with additional sea salt and black pepper.

SWEET & SPICY GLAZED SALMON

Steps:

• Combine the brown sugar, mustard, soy sauce, paprika, ginger and oil in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil. Cook and stir until brown sugar is dissolved., Place salmon skin side down on a greased broiler pan. Sprinkle with pepper and salt., Broil 6 in. from the heat for 10-15 minutes or until fish flakes easily with a fork, brushing glaze over salmon during the last 1-2 minutes of cooking.

SPICY-SWEET GLAZED SALMON

Steps:

• Place salmon in a shallow, flat dish, and set aside. Combine the vinegar, olive oil, soy sauce, water, lemon juice, red pepper flakes, onion powder, garlic powder, cilantro, and brown sugar in a blender. Blend until brown sugar dissolves. Pour the marinade over the salmon to cover evenly. Cover the dish, and refrigerate at least 2 hours.
• Line a broiling pan with foil. Remove salmon from marinade, and place on prepared broiling pan; season to taste with salt and pepper. Transfer remaining marinade to a saucepan.
• Turn on broiler to low.
• Broil salmon about 6 inches from the heat for 5 minutes; brush with remaining marinade. Broil an additional 5 to 10 minutes, brushing 2 or 3 more times with additional marinade. Salmon is done when fish is no longer bright red and can be flaked with a fork.
• Meanwhile, cook the remaining marinade over low heat until it thickens and reduces by one-third, 5 to 10 minutes. Use cooked marinade as a dipping sauce or drizzle over salmon just before serving.

SWEET CHILI-GLAZED SALMON, SUGAR SNAPS AND RICE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Coat a sheet pan with cooking spray.
• Combine the rice, 2 1/2 cups water and 1/4 teaspoon of the salt on the sheet pan. Bake for 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, whisk the sugar, lime juice, fish sauce, chili-garlic sauce and cornstarch in a small bowl to make the glaze. Combine the sugar snaps with the oil and 1/4 teaspoon of the salt in a separate bowl.
• Season the salmon with the remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt. After the rice has cooked for 20 minutes, place the salmon, skin side down, on the sheet pan (directly on top of the rice) and brush it with about one-third of the chili glaze. Roast for 5 minutes, again brush the salmon with about one-third of the glaze and add the sugar snaps to the pan. Roast another 5 minutes and brush with the remaining glaze. Roast until the salmon is just translucent in the center and the sugar snaps are crisp-tender, about 5 minutes more.

SWEET AND SPICY-GLAZED GRILLED SALMON

Steps:

• 1. Chop chipotles and garlic in a food processor. Add tamarind, brown sugar, and salt and puree. Add vinegar, 2 tablespoons water, and oil, and puree until smooth. Pour about 1/4 cup of glaze into a small bowl. Reserve remaining glaze for serving.
• 2. Preheat a grill to medium.
• 3. Brush salmon filets with oil and season with 1 tablespoon salt, to taste. Place fillets, top-side (rounded side) down, on grill. Cook until distinct grill marks appear, about 4 minutes. Turn fish over, lightly brush with glaze, and cook, brushing occasionally with more glaze, until firm but slightly pink, about 6 to 8 minutes. Transfer to a cutting board and brush with more glaze. Serve warm or at room temperature, and pass additional glaze, if desired.

SWEET AND TANGY GLAZED SALMON

Steps:

• Preheat an outdoor grill for high heat.
• Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat, and mix in the brown sugar, lemon juice, dill, and cayenne pepper. Cook and stir until the brown sugar is dissolved. Reduce heat and simmer until ready to brush onto the salmon.
• Season salmon with lemon pepper, and place directly on the grill grate, skin side down. Brushing frequently with the butter and brown sugar glaze, cook the salmon 20 minutes, or until easily flaked with a fork. Reserve some of the glaze for serving.

SWEET 'N' SPICY SRIRACHA-GLAZED SALMON

Steps:

• In a 1-gallon zip-top plastic bag, combine the soy sauce, honey, vinegar, Sriracha, ginger, and garlic. Add the salmon, toss to coat evenly, and refrigerate for at least 1 hour, or up to 8 hours, turning the fish once.
• Remove the salmon from the bag, reserving the marinade. Heat a large sauté pan over medium-high heat and add the sesame oil. Rotate the pan to coat the bottom evenly and add the salmon. Cook until one side of the fish is browned, about 2 minutes. Flip the salmon and cook until the other side browns, 2 more minutes. Reduce the heat to low and pour in the reserved marinade. Cover and cook until the fish is cooked through, 4 to 5 minutes.
• Place a piece of salmon on each of 4 serving plates and sprinkle with the scallions.

SWEET 'N' HOT GLAZED SALMON

Steps:

• Preheat your oven's broiler, and grease a broiling pan.
• In a saucepan over medium heat, mix together the apricot nectar, dried apricots, honey, soy sauce, ginger, garlic, cinnamon and cayenne. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer for about 20 minutes, or until reduced by about half. Stir occasionally to prevent burning. Remove 1/4 cup of the glaze for basting, and set the remaining aside.
• Place the salmon filet on the greased broiling pan, and brush with glaze. Broil 3 inches from the heat for 8 to 12 minutes, or until salmon flakes easily with a fork. Gently turn over once during cooking, and baste frequently during the last 4 minutes. Serve with remaining glaze.

SWEET MUSTARD-GLAZED SALMON FILLETS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• In a shallow baking dish, mix together the lemon juice, mustard, brown sugar and cumin.
• Season both sides of the salmon fillets with salt and pepper to taste; place the salmon in the baking dish, turning to coat with the mustard mixture.
• Bake 10 to 15 minutes or until the fish flakes easily with fork.

SWEET MUSTARD-GLAZED SALMON FOR THE GRILL

Steps:

• Mix melted butter, brown sugar, and mustards together.
• Let mixture sit in a cool place for a few minutes to firm up.
• Rinse salmon and dry with paper towels so glaze will adhere.
• Spread glaze on both sides of salmon filets.
• Grill salmon, turning once, for about 5 minutes per side or until done to your liking.

SWEET SOY-GLAZED SALMON

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400.
• Mix glaze ingredients together, stirring until dissolved. Marinate fish filets for at least 30 minutes.
• Arrange salmon, skin-side down, in a baking dish lined with aluminum foil & lightly sprayed with cooking spray. Brush glaze on all sides of fish.
• Bake approximately 15-20 minutes, basting once with pan sauces. Fish is done when it flakes easily and center is cooked through.

SWEET GLAZED SALMON W/ROASTED PEPPERS AND YELLOW RICE

Steps:

• For the Marinade: Put the filets into a large ziploc bag. In a small bowl whisk together the marinade ingredients. Pour the mixture into the bag with the salmon and message the pieces of fish until thoroughly coated. Cover and refrigerate for at least an hour.
• For the Rice: In a small pot, heat 2 teaspoons of olive oil. Add the minced onion and garlic and saute until the garlic is light golden brown. Add the turmeric, salt and pepper; stir. .
• Add the rice and stir to coat the rice with the onion. Lightly brown the rice. Pour the cold water over the rice and cover. Over high heat, bring to a boil, then reduce heat to a simmer for about 20 minutes until water is absorbed and rice is done.
• For the Peppers: Cut the peppers in half lengthwise. Remove the stems, seeds and membrane. Cut the peppers into thin strips. Drizzle over with olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
• For the Fish: reheat oven to 350 degrees. Remove the fish filets from the marinade; reserve the marinade for later use.
• In a saute pan, add 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Heat on a high fire. Place the fish filets, two at a time, in the pan with the side that the filet will be served showing, face down. Quickly sear to light golden. Do this on both sides of each filet.
• To Finish: Place the seared fish in a baking dish. Top with the chopped and seasoned peppers. Roast in the oven for about 2 minutes. The peppers should still be crunchy. (The internal temperature for the salmon should be about 145 degrees.)
• For the Glaze: In a saucepan, heat the reserved marinade. Add the sugar and stir to dissolve. Whisk in soy sauce and the optional chili flakes or chopped jalapeno. Let boil, then reduce the heat to simmer until a thin syrup consistency is achieved. Strain, if desired. Add warm water if needed to thin.
• To Serve: Serve the salmon topped with red and green peppers over the yellow rice. Drizzle over with the dark glaze.

SWEET-SPICY GLAZED NORWEGIAN SALMON

Steps:

• Heat oven to 425 degrees.
• In a sauce-pan, combine first 4 ingredients and bring to a boil.
• Remove from heat.
• Coat fillets with olive oil, place on a foil lined jelly roll pan, sprinkle with salt and pepper.
• Bake at 425 for 12 minutes.
• Remove from oven.
• Preheat broiler.
• Brush sugar mixture evenly over salmon.
• Broil 3 inches from heat for 3 minutes or until fish flakes easily when tested with fork.

ORANGE-GLAZED SALMON WITH CARAMELIZED SWEET ONIONS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 425°F Spray 11x7-inch glass baking dish with cooking spray.
• Heat oil in large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until hot. Cook onions and 1/4 teaspoon of the salt 3 to 4 minutes or until onions begin to turn golden brown, stirring frequently. Reduce heat to medium-low and add garlic; cover and cook 5 minutes or until tender, stirring occasionally.
• Meanwhile, combine orange juice, vinegar, orange peel and rosemary in small bowl; reserve 2 tablespoons for glaze. Add remaining mixture to onions; cook, uncovered, 2 to 3 minutes or until most of the liquid has evaporated. Whisk mustard and honey into reserved glaze.
• Spread onion mixture in baking dish; top with salmon. Sprinkle with remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt; spoon reserved glaze over salmon. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until salmon just begins to flake. Serve salmon topped with onion mixture.

SWEET-SPICY GLAZED SALMON

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
• Combine first 4 ingredients in a saucepan; bring to a boil. Remove from heat.
• Place fish on a foil-lined jelly rolled pan coated with cooking spray; sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bake at at 425 degrees for 12 minutes. Remove from oven.
• Preheat broiler.
• Brush sugar mixture evenly over salmon; broil 3 inches from heat 3 minutes or until fish flakes easily when tested with a fork.

SWEET ONION GUAVA GLAZED SALMON ON CHIPOTLE MANGO AVOCADO SALAD

Steps:

• Sauté only one half of the onion in oil over medium heat for 7-10 minutes until they become kind of brown.
• Add in everything except the rum, lime and salmon. Stir together, breaking up the guava paste. Once smooth, stir in the rum and lime juice then remove from heat. Allow to cool while cutting up the salad.
• Cube the mango, avocado, and onion. Toss with the spices and lime juice.
• Take the remaining half of the diced onion and cover top of salmon, placed skin side down in a foil covered pan. Pour the slightly cooled glaze over the top and broil for 8 - 12 minutes depending on how you like your salmon cooked.
• Split in half and serve on top of the salad. Squeeze half a lemon over top of entire dish.

SWEET SPICY GLAZED SALMON

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Combine first 4 ingredients in a saucepan; bring to a boil. Remove from heat. Place fish on a foil-lined jelly-roll pan coated with cooking spray; sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bake at 425 degrees for 10 minutes. Remove from oven. Preheat broiler. Brush sugar mixture over fish; broil 3 inches from heat 3 minutes or until fish flakes easily when tested wit a fork or until desired doneness.

SPICY-SWEET GLAZED SALMON

Steps:

• Place salmon in a shallow, flat dish, and set aside. Combine the rest of the ingredients in a blender. Blend until brown sugar dissolves.
• Pour the marinade over the salmon to cover evenly. Cover the dish, and refrigerate at least 2 hours.
• Line a broiling pan with foil. Remove salmon from marinade, and place on prepared broiling pan; season with salt and pepper.. Transfer remaining marinade to a saucepan. Turn broiler to low.
• Broil salmon about 6 inches from the heat for 5 minutes; brush with marinade. Broil an additional 5-10 minutes, brushing 2 or 3 more times with additional marinade. Salmon is done when fish is no longer bright red and can be flaked with a fork.
• Cook the remaining marinade over low heat until it thickens and reduces by one-third; 5-10 minutes. Use cooked marinade as a dipping sauce or drizzle over salmon just before serving.

SWEET GLAZED SALMON & RICE FOR TWO

Steps:

• Heat 1 Tbsp. dressing in medium skillet on medium-high heat. Add fish; cook 5 min. on each side or until fish flakes easily with fork. Transfer fish to plate. Add preserves to skillet; stir until melted. Spoon over fish; cover to keep warm.
• Add remaining dressing and vegetables to skillet; cook and stir on medium heat 2 min. or until crisp-tender.
• Serve fish over rice; top with vegetable mixture.