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Grilled Salmon Recipes

May 14, 2013
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Packed with flavor and heart-healthy fats, salmon can handle the grill, whereas flaky fish like cod, sole, and tilapia tend to fall to pieces. So delight friends and family with one of our delicious and healthy grilled salmon recipes at your next gathering, or whip up a favorite to incorporate more fish into your weeknight dinner menu.
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Dilly Salmon Packets with Asparagus

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View Recipe: Dilly Salmon Packets with Asparagus

Adding the orange slices to the packets will perfume the fish and make the slices easier to squeeze after grilling. Remove the foil and arrange fillets over asparagus for a lovely presentation. No grill? Bake the packets at 425° for 15 minutes or until desired degree of doneness.

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Wild Salmon with Horseradish-Mustard Sauce

Credit: Photo: Sarah Anne Ward

Wild salmon tends to be leaner than farmed, making it trickier to cook; brushing the fillets with oil helps to keep them moist. Look for fresh starting in mid-may, or find it year-round in your freezer case. If using farmed salmon, look for fish caught in U.S. waters. We love the richness of full-fat sour cream here, but you can use reduced-fat if that's what you have.

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Salmon with Potatoes and Horseradish Sauce

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View Recipe: Salmon with Potatoes and Horseradish Sauce

You’ll be surprised at the sophistication of this 5-ingredient dish, which is easy, elegant, and beautiful. You can't go wrong when you start with salmon and a sour cream sauce, especially if the sauce is flavored with dill and horseradish. Fill out the plate with a side of steamed asparagus or haricots verts (slender French green beans), or barely wilted spinach or Swiss chard. If you have a mandoline in your kitchen, use it—carefully—on the potatoes to make the job of slicing go faster.

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Grilled Salmon With White Bean and Arugula Salad

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View Recipe: Grilled Salmon With White Bean and Arugula Salad

Ask for salmon fillets from the head end of the fish—the tail end is much thinner.

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Glazed Salmon and Rice Bowl

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View Recipe: Glazed Salmon and Rice Bowl
A soy sauce, honey, and vinegar mixture doubles as a marinade for the salmon and a drizzle over the finished dish.

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Salmon in Smoky Tomato Broth

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View Recipe: Salmon in Smoky Tomato Broth

This delicate broth is a grade-A example of how to build big flavor—fast. Keep this recipe on deck for last-minute company.

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Salmon with Walnut-Avocado Guacamole

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View Recipe: Salmon with Walnut-Avocado Guacamole

Salmon is a staple in paleo diets as it's incredibly rich in healthy fats. The dish contains 32 grams of total fat: That's the amount in three Butterfinger candy bars. But the quality of the food—salmon, walnuts, avocado, olive oil—is premium, fresh, and delicious. You'll walk away happy, satisfied, and comfortably full—a fullness that will last for hours. Bonus: It's fast food, ready in less than 20 minutes.

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Sesame Cabbage Salad With Grilled Salmon

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View Recipe: Sesame Cabbage Salad With Grilled Salmon

There are lots of sustainable salmon options available now, from wild Alaskan to farmed U.S. species. Keep this easy recipe in mind for times when you have leftover cabbage in the fridge.

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Smoked Salmon, Barbecue University-Style

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This whisky-scented smoked salmon combines the virtues of hot smoking and cedar planking. The dry brine in a sugar-salt mixture seasons the fish wonderfully.

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Nice and Crisp

Credit: Photo: Mary Britton Senseney/Wonderful Machine and Randy Mayor
View Recipe: Grilled Salmon and Brown Butter Couscous

Our Grilled Salmon and Brown Butter Couscous recipe offers the perfect pairing for a hassle-free, great-tasting weeknight meal.

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Grilled King Salmon with Tomato-Peach Salsa

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View Recipe: Grilled King Salmon with Tomato-Peach Salsa

Use a peach that's just ripe so it's juicy but still holds its shape. King (also called chinook) salmon is the best quality and works well in this dish, though sockeye works.

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Cedar Plank-Grilled Salmon With Mango Kiwi Salsa

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View Recipe: Cedar Plank-Grilled Salmon With Mango Kiwi Salsa

The smoky grilled salmon stands up nicely to the spicy sweetness of the tropical salsa. Prepare the mango salsa before the salmon so the flavors have time to meld.

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Grilled Salmon with Tangy Cucumber Sauce

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This recipe showcases the classic combination of salmon, cucumber, and horseradish. Use two spatulas to make handling the salmon easier. Garnish with lemon wedges, if desired.

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Bourbon-Glazed Salmon

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View Recipe: Bourbon-Glazed Salmon

This recipe receives rave reviews, even from picky eaters who don't normally try salmon.

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Pan-Grilled Salmon with Red Pepper Salsa

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View Recipe: Pan-Grilled Salmon with Red Pepper Salsa

This grilled salmon recipe pairs rich fish with bright flavors. While the fish cooks, prepare the easy red pepper and tomato salsa.

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Grilled Pastrami-Style Salmon

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The classic seasonings associated with beef pastrami taste fantastic on this grilled salmon. Allspice is a fairly strong spice, so if you're sensitive to its "burn," use the lesser amount. Purchase a whole center-cut salmon fillet so that it will cook more evenly than a cut that contains the thinner tail end.

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Grilled Salmon with Chorizo and Fingerlings

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View Recipe: Grilled Salmon with Chorizo and Fingerlings

Spanish chorizo is typically cured and has a smokier flavor profile than raw Mexican chorizo. If Spanish chorizo is unavailable, you can substitute Portuguese linguiça. Smoked paprika emphasizes the grilled flavor of the fish.

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Plank-Grilled Salmon with Grape Relish

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View Recipe: Plank-Grilled Salmon with Grape Relish

Serve this dish with pinot noir. Briny olives, sweet grapes, and rich salmon match well with the wine's balance of earthiness and acidity. Substitute picholine or other green olives, if necessary.

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Maple Grilled Salmon

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View Recipe: Maple Grilled Salmon

The sweet-sour marinade is cooked down to a syrupy glaze that's brushed on the salmon as it cooks. The citrus and maple flavors would also be tasty with pork. Garnish fillets with orange slices, if desired.

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Grilled Salmon with Smoky Tomato Salsa

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If you prefer a milder relish, remove seeds from the jalapeño before grilling.

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Grilled Salmon and Spinach Salad

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The citrus vinaigrette blends well with the smoky salmon, sweet orange slices, and crisp spinach in this superfast, super healthy recipe.

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Cedar Plank-Grilled Salmon with Avocado-Orange Salsa

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View Recipe: Cedar Plank-Grilled Salmon with Avocado-Orange Salsa

Serve this smoky, flavorful salmon with Roasted Asparagus with Dijon-Lemon Sauce to round out the meal.

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Grilled Salmon with Apricot-Mustard Glaze

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Friends and family will beg for the recipe when you serve this sophisticated take on salmon. Brush the fruit reduction on the fish at the last minute to prevent sugars from burning on the grill.

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Grilled Salmon with Roasted Corn Relish

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Grilled chiles and corn give the relish a wonderfully smoky flavor that pairs perfectly with grilled salmon seasoned with just salt, pepper, and cumin. Serve with a mixed green salad to round out the meal.

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Ponzu Grilled Salmon with Golden Beet Couscous

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Israeli couscous, highlighted with sweet golden beets, is the perfect companion to the sweet-tart Ponzu sauce that coats the salmon. Try for wild Alaskan salmon; its rich, red color makes this dish gorgeous.

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Grilled Salmon with East-West Spice Rub and Orange-Soy Glaze

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Don't remove the skin from the salmon until after you've taken it off the grill. The skin protects the flesh from the intense heat, allowing it to cook on just one side. This eliminates having to flip the fillets, which often fragments the fish.

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Grilled Wild Salmon and Vegetables

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View Recipe: Grilled Wild Salmon and Vegetables

You often can find different varieties of locally-grown onions at farmers' markets and occasionally at supermarkets. Use a grill basket to cook the fish and vegetables.

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Alder-Planked Salmon in an Asian-Style Marinade

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View Recipe: Alder-Planked Salmon in an Asian-Style Marinade

If you can get your hands on a filleted side of salmon, this is the recipe to choose. After a quick dip in a soy marinade rounded out with honey, ginger, and lemon, the salmon is grilled over indirect heat. Keeping it on a plank is one way to ensure that this large cut of fish stays extra-moist.

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Grilled Salmon Caesar Salad

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View Recipe: Grilled Salmon Caesar Salad

Prepare the dressing up to a day ahead. Coho salmon is especially good in this salad.

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    1 of 29 Dilly Salmon Packets with Asparagus
    2 of 29 Wild Salmon with Horseradish-Mustard Sauce
    3 of 29 Salmon with Potatoes and Horseradish Sauce
    4 of 29 Grilled Salmon With White Bean and Arugula Salad
    5 of 29 Glazed Salmon and Rice Bowl
    6 of 29 Salmon in Smoky Tomato Broth
    7 of 29 Salmon with Walnut-Avocado Guacamole
    8 of 29 Sesame Cabbage Salad With Grilled Salmon
    9 of 29 Smoked Salmon, Barbecue University-Style
    10 of 29 Nice and Crisp
    11 of 29 Grilled King Salmon with Tomato-Peach Salsa
    12 of 29 Cedar Plank-Grilled Salmon With Mango Kiwi Salsa
    13 of 29 Grilled Salmon with Tangy Cucumber Sauce
    14 of 29 Bourbon-Glazed Salmon
    15 of 29 Pan-Grilled Salmon with Red Pepper Salsa
    16 of 29 Grilled Pastrami-Style Salmon
    17 of 29 Grilled Salmon with Chorizo and Fingerlings
    18 of 29 Plank-Grilled Salmon with Grape Relish
    19 of 29 Maple Grilled Salmon
    20 of 29 Grilled Salmon with Smoky Tomato Salsa
    21 of 29 Grilled Salmon and Spinach Salad
    22 of 29 Cedar Plank-Grilled Salmon with Avocado-Orange Salsa
    23 of 29 Grilled Salmon with Apricot-Mustard Glaze
    24 of 29 Grilled Salmon with Roasted Corn Relish
    25 of 29 Ponzu Grilled Salmon with Golden Beet Couscous
    26 of 29 Grilled Salmon with East-West Spice Rub and Orange-Soy Glaze
    27 of 29 Grilled Wild Salmon and Vegetables
    28 of 29 Alder-Planked Salmon in an Asian-Style Marinade
    29 of 29 Grilled Salmon Caesar Salad

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