Brown Sugar Broiled Salmon Recipe

Broiled Salmon with a spicy brown sugar glaze is a fast 15 minute salmon recipe that yields excessive returns for little or no effort! Stunning caramelised floor, juicy salmon inside, this can be a terrific option to prepare dinner salmon that’s far much less messy than pan searing.

Just like the Chilli Lime Baked Salmon, this may be made right into a one tray dinner by including greens that can prepare dinner on the identical time!

An incredible Broiled Salmon

Dinner actually doesn’t get any extra easy than this, but it surely lacks nothing within the flavour division! Particularly that glaze – it’s incredible! And I actually imply it once I say this can be a 15 minute meal. It goes like this:

• Glaze: combine mustard, mayonnaise, brown sugar and cayenne pepper (1 minute)

• Slather onto salmon (1 minute)

• If you need, throw on asparagus, broccolini and cherry tomatoes, and drizzle with olive oil (2 minutes)

• Grill/broil for 8 minutes

Oh wait. I can’t do major faculty maths. That’s 12 minutes. 😉

Brown sugar glaze for salmon

This recipe is impressed by this Roasted Salmon Glazed with Brown Sugar and Mustard that I discovered in New York Instances final yr. The primary time I attempted it, I discovered that roasting the salmon didn’t obtain the promised glaze, so I’ve fiddled with the recipe a wee bit. Firstly, I grill/broil the salmon as a substitute of baking it so that you’re assured lovely caramelisation.

And secondly, the NYT recipe solely makes use of mustard and brown sugar which typically shaped a pores and skin relatively than caramelising. I feel it depends upon how oily the salmon is. So to take away that downside, I add a little bit of mayonnaise which provides oil so it ensures you all the time find yourself with an exquisite glaze in your salmon. 🙂

Oh wait. I made one different – ahem – little change. I added greens. Asparagus, broccolini and cherry tomatoes are excellent as a result of they prepare dinner in the identical time because the salmon.

To get caramelisation, it’s higher to broil relatively than roast salmon

Add a crusty bread roll, and dinner is full.

With simply one pan to wash up.

In actual fact, you would line the tray with foil to get rid of cleansing all collectively. The explanation I don’t is as a result of I wish to scrape the juices off the tray and pour it over the Brown Sugar Salmon. Can’t do that with foil, I all the time find yourself scraping up bits of foil!!

Brown Sugar Broiled Salmon is a type of recipes that may be a nice base for including your individual contact. I added cayenne pepper to make the glaze spicy. Off the highest of my head, listed here are another concepts: lemon or lime zest (not juice), garlic and/or ginger powder, Chinese language 5 spice, sriracha or different chilli paste, swap out the sugar with honey or maple syrup, sichuan pepper, add herbs of alternative – recent or dried.

Love to listen to every other concepts you must glam this up much more! I imply, bear in mind, this solely takes 12 minutes to make. So I’m positive you may spare an additional minute or two for another touches!! 🙂 

Brown Sugar Broiled Salmon Recipe

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Serves: 4 Prep Time: 4 minutes Cooking Time: 8 minutes 8 minutes

Nutrition facts: 333 calories 20 grams fat

Rating: 5.0/5

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Ingredients

• 4 x 5-8 oz/ 150-180g salmon fillets , skin on or off (I use on)
• 2 bunches asparagus (Note 1)
• 1 bunch broccolini (Note 1)
• 1 cup cherry tomatoes
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• Salt and pepper
• 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
• 1 tbsp mayonnaise (I use whole egg mayonnaise)
• 2 tbsp brown sugar
• 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper

Instructions

1. Preheat broiler/griller on high. Place the oven shelf 6"/15cm from the heat source.
2. Spray a baking tray with oil (I use olive oil, any is fine).
3. Pile asparagus, broccolini and cherry tomatoes on the baking tray. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Toss with hands then spread out on the tray, mostly on one layer.
4. Wedge salmon pieces on the tray between the vegetables. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
5. Mix Glaze ingredients together. Slather on the salmon - tops and sides.
6. Grill/broil for 8 minutes - don't flip. The salmon should be caramelised and the inside should be blushing pink.
7. Rest for 2 minutes then serve with crusty bread rolls.

Notes

1. The asparagus and broccolini stems needs to be around the width of a standard pencil. If they are much larger than this, cut them in half lengthwise to ensure they cook in the specified time.
2. This makes enough glaze to spread over the top and side of the salmon. You probably won't need all of it if you are using small salmon pieces. Try rolling the cherry tomatoes in leftover glaze before popping them on the tray!
3. Nutrition per serving, assuming a 180g/6oz skinless salmon fillet, excluding bread roll.