Hot Honey Salmon
Description
🔥 Hot Honey Salmon for the win! 🔥
Sweet, spicy, sticky, and packed with flavor — this hot honey salmon is the perfect balance of heat and sweet. Caramelized edges, tender inside, and that drizzle of spicy honey magic… chef’s kiss.
Whether it’s dinner for the fam or a solo treat-yourself moment, this one hits every time.
🍯🌶️ Pro tip: serve it over rice to soak up all that saucy goodness!
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Ingredients
For the Hot Honey:
½ cup honey
4 tablespoons butter
2 teaspoons smoked paprika
1 ½ teaspoons cayenne
1 teaspoon garlic powder
Pinch kosher salt
For the Salmon:
1 salmon fillet, check for pin bones
1 teaspoon thyme
1 teaspoon smoked paprika
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon onion powder
1 teaspoon kosher salt
½ teaspoon cayenne
½ teaspoon white pepper
1tablespoon olive oil
Juice of one lime
Cilantro, chopped for serving
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 400F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Combine the honey, butter, cayenne, smoked paprika, garlic powder, and kosher salt and heat together until the honey and butter are melted (either in the microwave or a small saucepan on the stove). Set aside. Whisk the thyme, smoked paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, kosher salt, cayenne pepper, and white pepper together; then add the olive oil and lime juice and mix to form a paste. Rub the paste all over the flesh of the salmon and place the salmon on top of the prepared baking sheet.
Pour about ½ of the hot honey over the salmon and spread it around until well coated. Bake for 14-17 minutes, or until salmon is 130-135F internal temp.
Take out and sprinkle with cilantro. Serve over cooked rice with additional hot honey for drizzling
