🍯🍋 Grilled Honey Glazed Salmon is an EASY, FOOLPROOF way to make grilled salmon and is ready in 10 minutes. Paired with a rich, vibrant lemon butter, the salmon is wonderfully tender, melts in your mouth, and has fabulous flavor!
Quick + Easy Grilled Honey Glazed Salmon
If you’ve never tried foil pack salmon, you’ve been missing out! With variations like my foil pack lime cilantro salmon and foil pack orange molasses salmon, it’s one of my favorite ways to prepare fish.
And this honey lemon glazed salmon is no exception!
- Fast and foolproof, it’s so easy and ready in less than 15 minutes.
- The salmon turns out wonderfully tender and perfectly moist thanks to a super-easy salmon marinade I use.
- And the recipe is versatile. I use my outdoor grill, but you can place the foil packets on a baking sheet in your oven if you don’t have a grill. Or, use a grill pan on your stovetop.
Delicious! Perfectly cooked and I loved the flavor and moisture the lemon slices added to the fish. Will definitely make it again.
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Ingredients You’ll Need
To make this honey glazed salmon recipe you’ll need the following simple items:
- Skin-on salmon filet: Make sure to fully thaw frozen salmon in the refrigerator, and pat it dry with a paper towel
- Honey Glaze: Unsalted butter, honey, and lemon juice
- Kosher salt and pepper
- Fresh parsley
Can I add veggies?
Yes, you can cook some veggies alongside the grilled salmon in foil, such as zucchini, broccoli, or summer squash. You’d want to add veggies that cook at the same rate as the lemon butter salmon. Or, simply make a separate foil pack with your vegetables of choice and grill at the same time.
Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.
How to Make Grilled Honey Glazed Salmon
I’ve used this basic honey-lemon butter sauce many times before and love it so much. It’s impossible to ever have a dry piece of salmon when it’s cooking in that luxurious buttery elixir!
- Add a salmon fillet to a sheet of foil, placing the salmon skin side down.
- Nestle lemon slices under the fish, and drizzle it with a mixture of melted butter, honey, and lemon juice.
- Sprinkle with salt and black pepper, then seal up the foil.
- Throw the salmon on the grill grates, and you’re all set! You’ll know it’s fully cooked when it’s opaque pink, flakes easily with a fork, and reaches an internal temperature between 125°F-130°F.
- Serve warm with coconut rice, Parmesan and herb roasted potatoes, or your favorite sides. Feel free to add sesame seeds for a nutty flavor and a bit of crunch. Or, use a dash of red pepper flakes or a drizzle of sriracha if you like a little heat.
Finishing Grilled Salmon Under the Broiler
I love it when the top and edges of the honey grilled salmon are slightly browned, so I pop it under my oven broiler for 5 minutes. This is totally optional and is more for the texture and visual aspects.
If you choose to finish the salmon under the broiler, you don’t have to broil on the top rack. You can use the second rack, and while it will take longer, there’s less chance of it burning. Keep a close eye on it because all broilers are different, and you don’t want the salmon to burn. Open up your kitchen windows because the honey in the butter mixture is prone to burning and smoking.
Exact broiling time will depend on the size and thickness of the salmon, climate and oven variances, and personal preference. Check after 2 minutes and go from there.
Sides for Grilled Honey Glazed Salmon
Grilled Honey Lemon Butter Salmon
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1.25 pounds skin-on salmon fillet
- 1 lemon, sliced into thin rounds
- ¼ cup unsalted butter, melted
- ¼ cup honey
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice, from about 1 lemon
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt, or to taste
- ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, or to taste
- 2 teaspoons finely chopped fresh parsley, optional for garnishing
Instructions
- Preheat outdoor grill to medium-high heat. Alternatively, preheat oven to 425F.
- Place salmon on a sheet of foil (with the longer side parallel with the longer side of the sheet pan) with the skin-side down. Raise the edges of the foil up about 2 inches (or enough so that when you pour the buttery mixture over the top it will be contained in the foil).
- Nestle lemon slices underneath the salmon, spaced evenly around the fillet; set aside.
- To a microwave-safe glass measuring cup or bowl, add the butter and heat on high power to melt, about 1 minute.
- Stir in the honey and lemon juice. Pour or spoon about three-quarters of the mixture over the salmon; reserve remainder.
- Evenly season salmon with salt and pepper.
- Seal up the foil. Likely you will need to add another sheet of foil on top in order to seal it. Crimp or pinch the top and bottom pieces of foil together; get it as air-tight as possible but it doesn’t have to be perfect.
- If you have time, set aside to marinate for about 10 to 15 minutes (enhanced flavor).
- Place foil pack on the grill and cook for about 7 minutes, or until done.
- Optionally, if you want additional browning on the top of the salmon, set your oven to Hi broil.
- Open the foil pack or remove the top piece of foil so the salmon is exposed but keep the edges raised to contain the buttery mixture.
- Spoon the reserved buttery mixture over the salmon, if desired. Use your judgment and if there’s already lots of juice you don’t need to add it because you don’t want it to start leaking. If you have extra buttery mixture, it’s great served over the finished dish.
- Broil salmon for about 5 minutes, or until salmon is as golden as desired. Tip – You don’t have to broil on the top rack, you can use the second rack, and while it will take longer, there’s less chance of it burning. Keep a close eye on it because all broilers are different and you don’t want the salmon to burn. Exact broiling time will depend on the size and thickness of the salmon, climate and oven variances, and personal preference.
- Optionally garnish with parsley and serve immediately.
Notes
- Storage: Salmon is best warm and fresh but will keep airtight in the fridge for up to 3 days. To reheat, warm salmon gently in the microwave for 30-second intervals. You don’t want to dry it out!
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Originally posted August6, 2018 and reposted September 5, 2022 with update text.
I just made this Honey Lemon Butter Salmon for dinner tonight and I LOVE it. I couldn’t decide which recipe to use, so just added spice to this one. I added red pepper flakes and the pepper to the honey and lemon juice and let it set before adding the butter. Then, followed the instructions, including letting it rest in the butter marinade. Yum!!! Thank you!!!
I just made this Honey Lemon Butter Salmon for dinner tonight and I LOVE it. I couldn’t decide which recipe to use, so just added spice to this one. I added red pepper flakes and the pepper to the honey and lemon juice and let it set before adding the butter. Then, followed the instructions, including letting it rest in the butter marinade. Yum!!! Thank you!!!
Thanks for the 5 star review and I am glad you loved it!
Delicious! Perfectly cooked and I loved the flavor and moisture the lemon slices added to the fish. Will definitely make it again.
Delicious! Perfectly cooked and I loved the flavor and moisture the lemon slices added to the fish. Will definitely make it again.
Thanks for the 5 star review and I’m glad it you loved the flavor and moisture from the lemon slices – me too! Great you’ll make it again.
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This is a very delicious, foolproof recipe. Easy peasy but everyone swooned. Even my teen son, who hates fish, devoured it. I’m always worried about over- or under-cooking fish, but this recipe gets it just right. Tender on the inside but a nice golden crust on the exterior.
This is a very delicious, foolproof recipe. Easy peasy but everyone swooned. Even my teen son, who hates fish, devoured it. I’m always worried about over- or under-cooking fish, but this recipe gets it just right. Tender on the inside but a nice golden crust on the exterior.
Thanks for the 5 star review and glad everyone swooned even the fish hating teen!
This salmon looks amazing! Totally wish I was eating it for dinner tonight!
Paige
https://thehappyflammily.com
Thank you! I hope you make it soon!
Your honey lemon butter salmon looks fabulous! Do you think I could do this using parchment paper and baking in the oven?
Yes and I also have quite a few other baked salmon recipes if you check the Relate Recipes underneath the recipe section that were designed to be baked in the oven or broiler.
Your salmon dishes are always so gorgeous! Pinning!
Thanks for pinning!
I never grow tired of this simple yet classic salmon recipe! :)
I agree! So classic but tasty!
Yum–I love your salmon recipes and the honey lemon butter sounds amazing!
It’s the best thing ever! I want to put it on everything :)