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This is the easiest and best-baked salmon recipe in the world! Stir a few simple ingredients together, pour over salmon fillets and bung it in the oven for 12-15 minutes. Done.
“Absolutely loved this recipe for salmon cooked in the oven! Fantastic flavours really do turn a Salmon fillet into something mega!.
Easy to follow. Try it & see.”
Nicky’s Notes
We try to have it once or twice a week, but I find it can be a tricky one as most of the family prefers meat over fish. I usually have to:
- Be a little more experimental (Thai fish burgers – so good!)
- Serve it with lots of temping extras (oh yeah Fish Tacos) or,
- Make a recipe that’s a little more time consuming (I still love you Fish Pie – even if you do take an hour to make).
However…. This salmon recipe knocks all that on the head.
This baked salmon is a simple, minimal-ingredient, quick-to-cook recipe that we all LOVE.
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📋 Ingredients for baked salmon
Ingredient swaps/additions
If you want to use an alternative to salmon, I’d recommend Trout, Sea Bass or Tilapia fillets. These are generally thinner fillets, so bake for 2-3 minutes less.
You can also use chunkier white fish, such as Haddock, Cod or Pollack. These fish have got less flavour, so I’d add an extra sprinkle of salt and pepper too.
🧑🍳 Abbreviated Recipe
***Full recipe with detailed steps in the recipe card below***
Place salmon fillets skin-side-down on a baking tray, then pour over a mix of melted butter, garlic, honey, parsley, salt, pepper, and paprika.
Arrange lemon wedges on and around the fish then bake in the oven for 12–15 minutes, basting once halfway through.
That’s it! Tender, fall-apart salmon with a lovely sticky-garlic glaze.
Recipe Tips
- You could also double up the sauce if you like, then you have more to drizzle on when you come to serve.
What to serve it with
You could serve this baked salmon with:
- Smashed baby new potatoes and some Garlicky Green Beans with Parmesan
- Mashed Potatoes
- Feta and Couscous-Stuffed Roasted Romano Peppers
- Hearty Cobb Salad with Smoky Chickpeas
- How about over some boiled rice < especially good if you’ve doubled the sauce
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- The leftover salmon tastes great serving cold as part of a salad or in a wrap.
Simply cool, cover and refrigerate the salmon 1-2 days, then flake it up before serving cold. - I don’t recommend freezing this baked salmon recipe.
📺 Watch how to make it
Honey Garlic Butter Baked Salmon Recipe
Ingredients
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200C/400F (fan). Line a baking tray with foil or a silicon mat.
- Place the salmon fillets, skin-side-down on the baking tray.4 boneless salmon fillets
- In a small bowl, mix together the melted butter, garlic, honey, parsley, salt, pepper, and paprika.2 tbsp unsalted butter, 2 cloves minced garlic, 2 tbsp honey, 1/2 tsp dried parsley, 1/4 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp pepper, pinch paprika
- Pour the mixture over the salmon fillets (don't worry about any of the sauce pooling on the tray).
- Arrange the lemon wedges on and around the salmon.1 lemon sliced into half-moons
- Place in the oven and bake for 8 minutes.
- Open the oven and baste the salmon with any of the sauce that has pooled on the tray. Bake for a further 4-7 minutes until the salmon is tender.
- Serve with your favourite potatoes and green veg.
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Notes
Can I make it ahead?
The salmon tastes far better when baked and eaten right away. Reheating the salmon can cause it to dry out, so I don’t recommend making it ahead. You can, however, mix up the sauce ingredients – except the butter – ahead. Then add the melted butter just before you come to use the sauce.Honestly though? It’s so quick to make the sauce anyway, that I just make it right beforehand.
Leftovers
The leftover salmon tastes great serving cold as part of a salad or in a wrap.Simply cool, cover and refrigerate the salmon 1-2 days, then flake it up before serving cold.
Can I freeze it?
I don’t recommend freezing this recipe.Ingredient swaps/additions
If you want to use an alternative to Salmon, I’d recommend Trout, Sea Bass or Tilapia fillets. These are generally thinner fillets, so bake for 2-3 minutes less.You can also use chunkier white fish, such as Haddock, Cod or Pollack. These fish have got less flavour, so I’d add an extra sprinkle of salt and pepper too.
Nutritional Information is per serving (4 servings altogether)
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
This honey garlic butter baked salmon recipe was first posted in May 2020. Updated since with recipe improvements and for housekeeping reasons.
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Perfect recipe! I do broil my salmon for the last few minutes for some extra color and it always comes out great.
It is so good that I give 7 out of 6stars
Honey garlic recipe works well with chicken as well tried it last night as Sal on was great and very tasty
Very good!
Delicious, and easy. I will make it again.
Absolutely loved this recipe for salmon cooked in the oven! Fantastic flavours really do turn a Salmon fillet into something mega!.
Easy to follow. Try it & see.
My family loved the salmon. They said it tasted more like fish instead of that salmon after taste.
OMG I loved it 😍 I had mine with basmati rice and steamed veggies!! Only mistake I made was that I made too little sauce as I was cooking for myself alone, but now I know better. Definitely making it again.
Easy to do. Very tasty and moist
Did it in my new oven 1st cooked meal
Loved it
Cooked it for my wife this evening, she loved it! Wants me to do it again.