Salmon with Garlic Honey Butter

A plate of salmon with honey butter, potatoes and salad.

5 from 1 vote

Salmon with Garlic Honey Butter

Salmon with Garlic Honey Butter is my go-to favorite roasted salmon recipe topped with delicious compound butter for amazing flavor! Honey butter salmon is simply seasoned and oven roasted in under 15 minutes. You'll want to put that garlic honey butter on everything!

Prep Time5

Cook Time12

Resting Time5

Total Time22

Course: Dinner

Cuisine: American

Servings:

Calories: 215kcal

Author: Meryl Downing

Ingredients

For the Salmon

1 pound wild-caught salmon
2 teaspoons olive oil
½ teaspoon kosher salt
8 grinds fresh black pepper

For the Garlic Honey Butter

1 Tablespoon butter room temperature
1 small clove garlic minced or mashed to a paste
1 teaspoon honey
1 teaspoon fresh basil or parsley chopped (optional)

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 400° convection bake.
On a sheet tray, cut a brown paper bag to roughly fit under your salmon (this step is optional but makes for easy clean up). Lay salmon, skin side down, on the paper and season it with olive oil, salt and pepper.
Roast for 11-15 minutes, depending on the thickness of your salmon, until desired doneness is reached. I like salmon medium, just done but not overcooked! You can pull back a piece with a fork to check.
Meanwhile combine all ingredients for the garlic honey butter in a small bowl, and mix and mash together with a fork.
When the salmon is done, let it rest 5 minutes on the stove top. Top it with the garlic honey butter and serve.

Notes

The Brown Paper Bag Trick -When roasting a piece of 'skin on' salmon in the oven, cut a brown paper bag to fit under the salmon while you roast it. The skin sticks to the bag while the flesh pulls right off to serve. This also makes the pan much easier to clean without that caked on skin!
Score the Salmon - Using a serrated knife, score the raw meat into serving size pieces before cooking it, slicing down through the flesh but leaving the skin intact. This makes it easier to serve individual pieces without having ragged edges on your servings.
Don't Overcook Salmon - Oven temperature and the thickness of the salmon can make the cooking time really vary. Always start with just 10 minutes, you can always put it back in the oven to cook longer but once it's overcooked, you can't undo it!
Garlic Honey Butter can be made ahead of time and kept in the fridge or made in a larger quantity and frozen for later use. Great on Shaved Pork Sandwiches, steak, chicken, pasta, or bread.

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