This easy and healthy one pan recipe is perfect when you need dinner on the table fast. Honey garlic salmon is ready to serve in less than 30 minutes and it’s a flavorful dinner that the whole family will love!
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One Pan Honey Garlic Salmon
We have fish for dinner at least a couple of times a week. Everyone enjoys eating it and I love that it’s super quick to make!
This honey garlic salmon is super delicious and requires hardly any prep. It’s perfectly sweet and salty and there are never any leftovers!
Why You’ll Love this Honey Garlic Salmon Recipe:
- Cost-Effective: Thanks to our friends at ALDI, we have been able to keep this meal’s costs around $5-6 per person. The recipe may be affordable, but it feels completely high-end. High-quality ingredients at absolutely amazing prices. I was also able to order everything online through Instacart, making the entire experience entirely contactless! ALso, in response to customer demand, ALDI has recently expanded its curbside pickup option to nearly 600 stores. Amazing!
- One Skillet Meal: I’m a big fan of one-pan dinners. Everything is cooked together and the cleanup is minimal.
- 30-Minute Recipe: This is a great recipe when you are running short on time. Perfect to serve as a weeknight family meal, but fancy enough to serve to company.
- Healthy: This dinner is made with no processed ingredients and salmon is a great source of protein and healthy fats.
- Perfect Family Meal: This recipe is helping us get back to our routine of eating together every night. It’s simple, affordable, and delicious. It’s made in one pan (less dishes!) and in under 30 minutes. What’s not to love?!
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Why we love and trust Aldi for family dinners
We are so lucky to have a wonderful ALDI right around the corner from our house. I bet you do too, as they have countless convenient locations across the country. We love their amazing value, quality, and convenience.
In normal times, you can find us perusing the aisles and trying all sorts of ALDI-exclusive brands and ALDI finds that are new to us every week. Henry loves exploring and I love the convenient layout. I always know where to find what I need.
During 2020, we have been doing our shopping on Instacart, and ALDI has even made that super simple and user-friendly. You can find all of the trusted ingredients online and have a totally contactless experience. As I said before, ALDI is also offering curbside pickup at nearly 600 locations. ALDI cares about how we can stay safe and is willing to help!
Every time we shop at ALDI I’m blown away by the quality and value. The salmon we used for this recipe (we used the Fresh Atlantic Salmon Side) came looking SO fresh and perfect, and was an absolutely unbelievable value at under $16.00 (for 3 lbs. of salmon!) (*Price and availability may vary.)
ALDI was the first grocery store to offer all of their ALDI-exclusive products free of certified synthetic colors, partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs), and added MSG.
They guarantee quality on all our private-label products. If a customer doesn’t like an ALDI-exclusive product, they can bring it
back. They’ll return their money and replace the product. Amazing!
I was able to shop every ingredient for this Honey Garlic Salmon at Aldi.
Getting Back to Routines
2020 has been such a unique year and all of our schedules have been completely changed and thrown into chaos. I’m grateful to stores like ALDI and recipes like this easy one-pan salmon for helping us get back to our routines.
It felt awesome to have a safe shopping experience followed by an affordable and delicious meal. We got back to cooking together and enjoying dinner around the table as a family. Scout even circled the table begging for scraps. It was a bit of normalcy in a crazy year. Thank you ALDI!
How to make honey garlic salmon
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- Pat the salmon dry and season.
- Cook the garlic in a skillet and add in the honey, lemon juice, and water.
- Add the salmon to the skillet, skin side down.
- Baste the salmon in the sauce. Add the asparagus and season.
- Cover and cook.
- Broil for several minutes until browned and fully cooked.
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What do you serve with it?
This honey garlic salmon is perfect just served with the asparagus it is cooked with and is a hearty meal right out of the skillet. If you want to add a potato side, Cacio E Pepe Roasted Potatoes or Mashed Potatoes will work really well.
Can you make it ahead of time?
This salmon is best served as soon as it’s made, but if you have leftovers they will keep well covered in the fridge for 3 to 4 days. You can reheat the salmon in a preheated oven at 275F for 15 minutes. Reheat it at a low temperature so that it doesn’t dry out.
Can you make this recipe with other types of fish?
I love the combination of honey, garlic, and salmon but you can swap the salmon for other firm fish like cod, hake, or pollock.
Similarly, you can swap out the asparagus for other veggies like green beans or carrots.
Tips!
- Cooking times may vary slightly depending on the thickness of your salmon fillets.
- The salmon is cooked when the flesh flakes away with a fork.
- I like to serve the salmon with the skin on as it gets nice and crispy. If you prefer, you can serve the salmon without the skin, but it’s best to cook it with skin for a richer flavor.
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Honey Garlic Salmon and Asparagus (One Pan Meal)
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Ingredients
- 1 Fresh Atlantic Salmon Side cut into 6 ounce portions
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- ½ teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
- ½ teaspoon ground paprika
- 2 tablespoons salted butter (¼ stick)
- 4 cloves Stonemill minced garlic in oil
- 4 tablespoons Simply Nature honey
- 1½ tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1 pound fresh asparagus ends cut
- 1 tablespoon Carlini Olive Oil
Instructions
- Pat the salmon dry and cut into 4 filets. If you have extra, keep the extra for an additional meal. (See Note) Season with salt and pepper to taste and then cayenne pepper and paprika. Set aside.1 Fresh Atlantic Salmon Side, Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, ½ teaspoon ground cayenne pepper, ½ teaspoon ground paprika
- Heat a large skillet over medium/high heat. Add the butter and allow to melt.2 tablespoons salted butter
- Add the garlic and heat for 1-2 minutes or until fragrant.4 cloves Stonemill minced garlic in oil
- Stir in the honey, lemon juice, and water. Whisk to combine. Allow to cook for 1-2 minutes until bubbling and slightly reduced.4 tablespoons Simply Nature honey, 1½ tablespoons fresh lemon juice, 1 tablespoon water
- Add the salmon, skin side down, to the skillet. Baste in the sauce.
- Add the asparagus around the salmon. Drizzle the asparagus with the olive oil. Season with salt and pepper.1 pound fresh asparagus, 1 tablespoon Carlini Olive Oil
- Cook the salmon on medium, covered and skin side down for 15 minutes.
- Turn your oven to broil. Uncover the skillet and place in the oven to broil for 3-5 minutes or until the salmon is cooked to an internal temperature of 145F. If your asparagus is thin and you're worried about burning, you can remove the asparagus from the skillet before broiling.
- Serve and enjoy!
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Becky’s tips
- Salmon: My salmon side was 3 lbs. so after cutting into 6-ounce portions, I had quite a bit of extra salmon. I stored the rest in the fridge and used it for another meal the next day.
- Cooking times may vary slightly depending on the thickness of your salmon fillets.
- The salmon is cooked when the flesh flakes away with a fork.
- When the salmon is cooked it should be an internal temperature of 145F.
- I like to serve the salmon with the skin on as it gets nice and crispy. If you prefer, you can serve the salmon without the skin, but it’s best to cook it with skin for a richer flavor.
Nutrition Information
OMG!!! I am a horrible cook and this turned out amazing!!! It was so easy! My teenage son devoured it and ask me to make it again. Thank you so much for sharing your recipes!!
Getting a teenager to eat vegetables sounds like a win to me!
I made this dish tonight. It was amazing and the first time I cooked Salmon.
Thanks for sharing! So happy it was a success!
Really? After making it, and burning everything, I realized 15 minutes is FARRRR too long to cook salmon on medium heat, skin down. This was a disaster.
Super easy and full of so much flavor! I Will definitely be making it again, thank you!
Thanks for stopping by, Laurie!
Although the one pan is a convenience, I have to say I didn’t care for the honey sweetened sauce on the asparagus. I loved it on the salmon!
Definitely modify the recipe to your liking!
This was delicious. My family and I enjoyed this on tonight. It was easy and quick. I had everything in my pantry. Love it. Will cook it again.
Thanks for sharing, Tamiko!
Why is soy sauce pictured at the top with other ingredients and not mentioned in the recipe? I think soy sauce would be good
Add it if you’d like!
This did not work for me. The sauce burned even though I kept it at medium heat and covered. If I was supposed to keep stirring it, the recipe should’ve said that.
I’m so sorry you had trouble with this one!
I also had some trouble with the sauce. I divided the recipe between two pieces of salmon and a chicken breast, so I used two pans. The chicken burned up but the salmon turned out just fine. This recipe had a nice flavor so, I’m going to give it another try.
I’ve never had to scroll through so much useless crap and filler writing to get to the recipe. All so you could show a billion ads.
At the top of the page should be a “recipe” link that will take you right to it!
Yikes, dude. That was super disrespectful and hurtful. Why comment at all? This is a BLOG, blogs are written stories of all kinds! Also, there is a link to direct you to the recipe if you choose to skip over the Story accompanying the recipe. Also re: advertising – hope you enjoy your free-to-you recipe! 😒
Just delicious! Super easy to make, few ingredients and great flavor.
I’m so glad you loved it!
I am making it tonight!!!!
I hope you enjoy it!!