This salmon is grilled and slathered with an incredibly delicious glaze. This simple glaze has only four ingredients. In less than 15 minutes, we had beautifully grilled salmon for dinner. Sometimes the simplest recipes can turn out to be some of the best. This one sure was!
One of my favorite cooking magazines is “Cuisine At Home“. If you’ve never seen an issue, please order a free preview issue from their website! (I’m not sponsored by this magazine, nor am I being paid to say this. I just believe that when something is really good, it deserves a shout.) The format of the magazine is missing something. Ads! Each page has step-by-step photos and recipes that can be a little bit fussy, along with plenty of very simple recipes. Like the family of Cook’s Illustrated’s publications, their issues teach and inspire me to cook or bake recipes that are new to me.
This June issue has several recipes that are on my radar. I’ve already made and shared a few of them. This recipe is very simple, and needs only four ingredients– other than salmon.
I spotted fresh wild-caught sockeye salmon at Whole Foods. At $18.00 a pound, it sounds very pricey. However, I’ve read enough information about the dangers of farmed-fish, and so I splurged. I paid about $6.00 per fillet. I particularly love the beautiful red color of sockeye salmon — unlike the cheaper farm-raised salmon that has red-dye injected into it. You didn’t know? It’s something to think about…
Grilled Maple-Bourbon Basted Grilled Salmon
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup Pure Maple Syrup not pancake syrup
- 2 Tbsp. bourbon
- 1 Tbsp. unsalted butter
- 1 tsp. cider vinegar
- 4 boneless skinless Alaskan salmon fillets (6 oz. each)
- Salt and black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat grill to high. Brush grill grate with oil.
- Combine maple syrup, bourbon, butter, and vinegar in a small saucepan on the stove top; boil over medium-high heat until thickened, about 3 minutes.
- Season fillets with salt and pepper.
- Grill fillets, covered, 3 minutes. Flip fillets, baste with maple glaze and grill until firm to the touch, 2-3 minutes more.
- Baste fillets again before serving.
Notes
Debby, this looks so delicious! I could easily live in salmon…and maple syrup. What a fabulous way to combine both. 😀
…sorry, meant to say 'on' salmon, not 'in'.
I love Cuisine, too – what great recipes they offer us home cooks. By chance, I'd made Copper River salmon tonight, with a soy sauce/honey/brown sugar/cracked pepper glaze. Delicious! Glad your husband enjoyed his supper, toon.
Mauree, Milwaukee
Looks great and the glaze sounds delicious
Wild salmon really is SO worth it! The taste is astounding, as are the health benefits! I love that glaze…maple is one of my favorite flavors to pair with salmon!
Farmed salmon is definitely something to think twice about Debby, but this dish is perfect for summer grilling!
Oh my goodness…that salmon looks soooo good and all jokes aside, my stomach is growling now! Im going to have to check out Cuisine.
Discovered you while looking for a meatloaf recipe; You are one great photographer and this salmon is going to be fantastic on our new Weber BBQ. Thanks.
Rita
What a recipe! I can't wait to try it. Wild caught Chinook salmon is available at the market now so this will be on the menu next weekend.
Enjoy the next two weeks working day shifts! That must be exciting!
Hope your computer gets fixed soon too- how frustrating!
Salmon looks awesome Deb, as does that succotash.
Hi Debby,
I drop by often for visits. I was not aware of Cuisine at Home, but because of your recommendation (which I trust), I'll be looking for it.
All pleasures,
Sharon Lovejoy Writes from Sunflower House and a Little Green Island
Wow the color of that salmon says it all. There's nothing so delicious and so healthy as wild salmon. I never heard of that "Cuisine" but I will definitely be trying this recipe.
Debby,
Your timing was impeccable with this posting. I had a fillet of Copper River salmon in the fridge wondering what to do with it. We cedar planked one the other night which was great, but we wanted something different. So we used this recipe and is was wonderful! Thanks.
Hey Debby, great that you have a shift change and can get home earlier! Your salmon looks fabulous! Cuisine is one of my favorites, also.
Wow, that looks so good, thanks for sharing.
Una fantastica ricetta!!! Complimenti!!